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Free Program Check-In List Template

Track who attends each session of your course, support group or service program, and watch participation curves long before someone drops out.

one tap per person
per session
trend-ready
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Use it in multi-session programs to tap each person in per session and watch the participation curve — thinning attendance shows up in week two, giving you time to reach out before someone drops out.

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About this template

In multi-session programs, the early-warning signal is the attendance curve — someone missing session three usually tells you more than any exit survey. This log records each session's participants in one tap per person, charts who comes, who thins out, and who vanishes, so outreach happens in week two instead of after dropout.

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Sample form preview — live and ready to fill in.

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Fill it in to see how responses flow.
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What's Included

Everything you need to run this template.

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Session rosters

Each meeting its own page of the same story.

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Trend per person

Thinning attendance visible before full dropout.

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Facilitator notes

Qualitative context rides with the counts.

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Funder-ready export

Participation reports generated from real logs.

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How It Works

From copy to deliverable in four steps.

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Use this template

Copy it in and list sessions and participants.

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Mark at the door

Facilitators tick presence as the group starts.

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Read the curve

Sort by person to see who thins out.

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Reach out early

Week-two check-ins, not post-mortems.

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Who Is This For

Pick your role — see how it fits your workflow.

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Program facilitators

Know before the third session who needs a call.

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Impact and M&E staff

Report participation from logs, not memory.

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Coordination leads

Spot degrading sessions and fix the design.

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Key Features

What makes this template work as a professional deliverable.

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Sample Questions Inside

A preview of the real questions in this form — exactly what respondents see.

  1. Participant name
  2. Session number and date
  3. Present / late / absent
  4. Arrival and departure (optional)
  5. Facilitator or staff on record
  6. Note this session (mood, incidents)
  7. Follow-up needed? (yes/no + reason)
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Frequently Asked Questions

Why track attendance per session, not just at kickoff?
Because the pattern lives between sessions: a first miss is noise, a third miss is a story. Per-session logs turn that story into outreach timing.
Is this the same as event door check-in?
No. Door check-in counts guests at one occasion; this log follows the same people across a program's sessions to read trends.
Does it replace an attendance policy?
No — it instruments one. Attendance expectations and follow-up rules stay yours; the log makes them enforceable.
Is it free to use?
Yes. Copy it into your FormLM workspace, list participants and sessions, reuse each cohort.
Sensitive groups — is a name log safe?
Keep entries minimal (name plus presence) and control workspace access; for anonymous circles, use codes instead of names.
What do I do with the export?
Funder participation reports, cohort reviews and mid-program design fixes all read from it.

See the dropout coming by session three

One tap per person per session — trends, outreach and reports from one log.