Every college runs on attendance. And in most of them, it still runs on paper.
A teacher walks to the office, signs out a register, carries it to class, marks each name by hand, and carries it back. Multiply that by every class, every day, every teacher. It is a quiet, daily tax on the people a college depends on most — and almost no one has ever tried to fix it for them.
The data was there. It just couldn't be used.
Attendance is one of the most honest signals a college has. It shows which students are slipping before results ever do. But trapped on paper, that signal goes nowhere. A teacher who wants to see how a class is trending has to flip back through weeks of pages. An administrator who wants a clear picture has to gather registers, turn page after page, and reconcile them by hand — file by file, class by class. The information a college already owns is locked in the one format no one can actually work with.
An irony worth naming.
There's something worth pausing on here. Colleges exist to move people forward — to prepare them for what comes next. They are, by their nature, institutions of progress. And yet one of their most basic daily operations is still carried out much the way it was a century ago.
We set out to solve that — a real, daily problem for the people living it, teachers and administrators.
So we built the thing that should already exist.
Daily Tab turns attendance from a daily paper chore into seconds on a phone — and into a live, shared picture of every class that teachers and administrators can see at a glance.
It is built teacher-first. A teacher marks a full class in seconds, right from their phone. And because most teachers work across more than one college, Daily Tab brings all of them into a single app — one place, one routine, wherever they teach.
For the institution, attendance stops being something you assemble after the fact and becomes something you can simply see — current, accurate, and shared.
Built to be trusted.
Attendance means student data, and student data deserves care. Daily Tab is built on secure, modern infrastructure and designed to comply with the GDPR and major data-protection regulations worldwide — even where local law does not yet require it. Our privacy policy, terms, and institutional data agreement are published in full at policies.dailytab.app.
This is only the beginning.
Daily Tab starts with attendance because that is where the friction is felt every day. Institutions can begin using it, free, at dailytab.app.