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Qwickly Attendance is one of 40 tools named in Instructure's first EdTech Top 40 for higher education, and the only tool on the list built specifically for attendance.
CLEVELAND, OH — October 3, 2026 — Qwickly is proud to announce that Qwickly Attendance has been named to Instructure's EdTech Top 40: Inside the U.S. Higher Education Digital Learning Stack. Released on September 29, 2026, the report is the first higher education edition of Instructure's EdTech Top 40 research. It identifies the 40 leading LTI tools that students and instructors launched through Canvas LMS during the 2025-26 academic year. It is the only tool on the list built specifically for attendance.
The Top 40 is based entirely on usage. Instructure analyzed de-identified Canvas LTI launch data from 19,480,990 U.S. higher education users between September 1, 2025, and April 30, 2026; the sample covers community colleges, R1 research universities, online institutions, and other colleges and universities. No marketing, advertising, or qualitative input was used to build the list. A tool appears on it because instructors and students open it.
That matters more when you look at how selective individual use is. Institutions in the study averaged 28 unique LTI tools, but individual instructors averaged only four and students averaged five. Qwickly Attendance is one of the small number of tools that instructors reach for in their courses week after week.
"The Top 40 is built from what instructors and students actually launch in Canvas, so this recognition belongs to our clients more than it belongs to us. We built Qwickly Attendance to do one job well at the start of every class meeting; seeing it on this list tells us institutions rely on it for exactly that." — Matt Hadgis, CEO, Qwickly
The report groups attendance with course evaluations, syllabus management, and library systems in its SIS and administration category, which makes up 15% of the Top 40. Instructure points to the size of this category as evidence that the LMS now serves as connective infrastructure across an institution, not only as a teaching platform. Qwickly Attendance shares that part of the list with Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys, Simple Syllabus, Blue, Willo Labs, and Ex Libris.
Instructure also looked at what institutions expect from the tools they formally adopt. Ninety percent of the Top 40 have a publicly available VPAT, 75% reference SOC 2 compliance, and 58% reference HECVAT compliance. Qwickly is ISO 27001:2022 certified, holds TX-RAMP Level 1 for Qwickly Attendance, and publishes HECVATs for both Qwickly Attendance and Qwickly Course Tools.
The Top 40 reflects Canvas data only. Qwickly Attendance also serves institutions on Blackboard and D2L Brightspace, whose usage falls outside the scope of this report.
Thank you to every institution, administrator, and instructor who uses Qwickly Attendance. This list is a reflection of your work in the classroom, and we are grateful for it.
Read Instructure's announcement or the full EdTech Top 40 report.
To learn more about how Qwickly Attendance can support attendance taking at your institution, visit www.goqwickly.com/attendance.
Streamline the start of class and reclaim valuable projector screen time for instruction with Qwickly Attendance's new Automated Check-In feature
CLEVELAND, OH — August 20, 2026 — Qwickly is thrilled to announce the launch of Automated Check-In, a powerful new scheduling feature rolling out in Beta for the Fall 2026 semester. Designed to completely streamline the attendance-taking process for higher education institutions, this new feature removes the need for manual intervention at the start of a class, allowing Qwickly Attendance to continue setting the standard for frictionless presence verification for administrators, instructors, and students alike.
Reclaiming Instructional Time
A common challenge in modern lecture halls and classrooms is the transition period at the start of class. Instructors often have to dedicate valuable projector screen time to display an attendance check-in screen, QR code, or PIN, delaying the start of the actual lesson. With Automated Check-In, the need to display Qwickly Attendance on the screen is entirely eliminated. Instructors can immediately pull up their teaching materials, lecture slides, or lab instructions the moment they walk in the door, while Qwickly quietly and securely handles attendance in the background.
How Automated Check-In Works
The Automated Check-In feature allows instructors (or in the future, administrators) to pre-schedule attendance sessions for their courses. Once configured, the process is completely hands-off:
Optimized for NFC Verification
While Automated Check-In brings convenience to other check-in formats, it was specifically designed to be used alongside Qwickly’s NFC Check-In mode. As an automated session quietly opens in the background, students simply walk into the room and tap their smartphones to designated NFC tags to verify their location. This powerful combination of automated scheduling and NFC proximity verification ensures that attendance data is effortless, highly secure, and guarantees that students are physically where they are supposed to be.
For LMS and school administrators, Automated Check-In offers a reliable way to ensure institutional attendance policies are being met without putting an administrative burden on faculty. Administrators can assist in scheduling these automated sessions at the start of the term, ensuring consistent, standardized data collection across departments.
Fall 2026 Beta Testing Now Open
As a Beta release for the Fall 2026 semester, Qwickly invites institutions to deploy Automated Check-In and provide valuable feedback to help refine the feature ahead of a wider general release. Current licensees of Qwickly Attendance who wish to participate in the Beta and utilize Automated Check-In can fill out the form below to join the Beta Group. There is no cost to join the Beta Group for schools already licensing Qwickly Attendance Pro.
To learn more about how Qwickly Attendance can transform the administrative and classroom experience at your institution, visit www.goqwickly.com.
Qwickly Attendance APIs are now available, giving institutions programmatic access to their attendance data for the first time via the Attendance Records Endpoint.
We're excited to announce that Qwickly Attendance APIs are now available for Qwickly Attendance Pro clients, giving institutions programmatic access to their attendance data for the first time.
The initial release includes the Attendance Records Endpoint, which lets you retrieve attendance records by course and session directly via API. You can filter by date range, pull only updated records, and paginate through large result sets. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0, and the full documentation is available at qwickly.tools/api/dashboard/v1/docs/.
For institutions that have been looking to connect attendance data to existing dashboards, data warehouses, or reporting systems, this is the integration path you've been waiting for. Rather than relying on manual exports or data feeds, your team can now pull the data you need, when you need it, and route it wherever it's most useful.
We're still in the early stages of building out this feature and are actively looking for feedback. If you have a use case in mind or questions about what the APIs can support, submit a support ticket at www.goqwickly.com/support and let us know what you're trying to build.
Webinar: June 9 at 2pm ET Join us for Introducing Qwickly Attendance APIs, where we'll walk through how the APIs work and show a live demo. This is also a great opportunity to tell us what you need. We're actively shaping the next iteration and your feedback will go directly into what we build. Register here.
Qwickly is proud to announce a major evolution in its attendance ecosystem with the launch of the Campus Location Manager and NFC Check-In, setting a new standard for how institutions define, manage, and verify the physical presence of their students.
Qwickly is proud to announce a major evolution in its attendance ecosystem with the launch of NFC Check-In and the Campus Location Manager, setting a new standard for how institutions define, manage, and verify the physical presence of their students. As learning environments become more dynamic, the technology that tracks engagement must be equally agile, ensuring that administrative workflows remain efficient and student data stays secure. Learn more by registering our "What's New in Qwickly Attendance" webinar on May 19, 2026.
Taking the spotlight in this release is the launch of NFC Check-In, a contactless solution that makes attendance as intuitive as a mobile payment. By placing NFC tags at classroom entrances or at individual student desks, institutions can leverage the Qwickly Attendance App to facilitate instant, reliable verification. Because NFC technology requires close physical proximity to a tag, it offers a robust layer of integrity that surpasses traditional PIN or QR codes, ensuring that "present" truly means the student is in the room.
The architectural foundation of these advancements is the new Campus Location Manager, a powerful engine designed to orchestrate NFC deployments, campus-wide geolocations, and enterprise seating grids from a single interface. By allowing administrators to define locations at the Campus, Building, and Room levels, Qwickly effectively eliminates the tedious cycle of manual coordinate uploads, ensuring that every room’s technical configuration is defined once and applied everywhere. This flexibility is critical for modern courses that move between lecture halls, specialized laboratories, and seminar rooms. Whether a class meets in a stadium-style theater on Monday or a clinical lab on Friday, the system automatically adapts to the correct geofence or NFC configuration, providing a seamless experience for the student and reliable data for the institution.
The integration of Campus Seating Grids further bridges the gap between physical space and digital insights. Administrators can now establish master seating layouts for every room on campus within the Campus Location Manager, which instructors can utilize instantly without manual setup. When combined with NFC tags at individual seats, the system becomes fully automated: a single tap from a student marks them present and simultaneously places them on the digital seating chart. This gives instructors an immediate visual overview of their classroom, fostering better engagement and providing critical proximity data at a glance.
Qwickly is a leading provider of educational technology solutions dedicated to simplifying workflows for millions of users worldwide. By focusing on the intersection of ease-of-use and institutional integrity, Qwickly continues to redefine how technology supports the student journey. For more information on how to modernize your campus with NFC and the Campus Location Manager, visit www.goqwickly.com.
Qwickly has been invited by D2L to take part in Ignite Canada 2026, November 9–10 at the Hilton Toronto. Find us in the Partner Symposium to see how Qwickly Attendance works inside D2L Brightspace.
The Qwickly team is honored to have been invited by D2L to take part in Ignite Canada 2026, taking place November 9–10 at the Hilton Toronto. Ignite brings together D2L learning leaders from across Canada, including educators, administrators, and training professionals, for two days of hands-on labs, peer exchanges, and customer stories. This year's focus on keeping learning human is one we share: taking attendance should take seconds, so instructors can spend class time on the people in the room.
Qwickly Attendance integrates directly with D2L Brightspace, so instructors can take attendance from within their courses in seconds and institutions get consistent attendance data across every course and section.
It's been a big year for Qwickly Attendance, and Ignite is a great opportunity to see our newest capabilities in action.
If you're attending Ignite, find Qwickly in the Partner Symposium on the Conference Level on November 9 and 10. Stop by for a live demo and a conversation with our team about how Qwickly Attendance can work for your institution, whether you're planning a campus-wide rollout or a solution for a specific program.
For more information about Ignite Canada 2026, visit the D2L Ignite Canada website.
Qwickly is aware of the critical PHP vulnerabilities disclosed on October 21, 2026 (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). Qwickly's products do not use PHP and are not affected, and no action is required from our clients. Our public marketing website, which is hosted separately and stores no client or student data, has been patched.
On October 21, 2026, two critical vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language were publicly disclosed. They are tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and are known together as "PHP2Shell." Both are rated critical because they could let an attacker run code on an affected web server without logging in. Nearly every version of PHP in use today is affected, so many institutions are reviewing their vendors' exposure this week. Here is where Qwickly stands.
Qwickly's products are not built on PHP, so these vulnerabilities do not apply to them. This includes:
No action is required from administrators, instructors, or students, and your Qwickly integrations with your learning management system do not need to be changed.
Qwickly's public marketing website, goqwickly.com, does use PHP. It is hosted separately from our products and does not store any client or student data. Our team responded the same day the vulnerabilities were disclosed: we applied an interim safeguard right away and installed the patched release of PHP as soon as it was available. The website is fully patched.
If your IT or security team needs more detail for a vendor review, please submit a support ticket and our team will follow up directly.
Build a seating chart that matches your actual room, from a small seminar table to a 50 x 50 lecture hall, now available in Qwickly Attendance Plus and Pro.
CLEVELAND, OH — September 1, 2026 — Qwickly is pleased to announce a significant expansion of Seating Chart Mode in Qwickly Attendance. Beginning with the Fall 2026 semester, instructors are no longer limited to the fixed 10 x 10 and 20 x 5 layouts. Seating charts can now be built at any grid size from 1 x 1 up to 50 x 50, allowing the chart on screen to finally match the room students are actually sitting in.
Seating Chart Mode gives instructors a visual, spatial way to take attendance: click a seat instead of scrolling a roster, and use student photos to learn names and faces faster. But campuses are full of rooms that a 100-seat grid simply could not describe. Tiered lecture halls fan outward with back rows wider than the front. Simulation labs and studios run long and narrow, with paired stations down the length of the room. Seminar rooms seat twelve around a single table. Law school classrooms routinely exceed one hundred students in a single section.
Until now, instructors in those spaces had to approximate: compressing a wide back row, splitting one room across two charts, or abandoning the mode entirely for larger sections. The new flexible grid removes that ceiling.
Building a seating chart works exactly as it did before, with one difference: rather than choosing from preset layouts, instructors specify the number of rows and columns their room requires.
Existing seating charts are unaffected. Charts already built on the 10 x 10 or 20 x 5 layouts remain intact and continue to work without any action required from instructors or administrators.
The expanded grid sizes are also available in the enterprise seating charts within Qwickly Attendance's Location Manager. Administrators defining institutional spaces centrally can now build room layouts at the same 1 x 1 to 50 x 50 range, so a lecture hall or lab configured once at the campus level carries an accurate footprint into every course scheduled in it.
For institutions standardizing attendance practice across departments, this means the physical map of campus and the seating charts instructors use every day finally describe the same rooms. Enterprise seating charts in Location Manager require a license of Qwickly Attendance Pro.
Flexible seating chart grids are available to all institutions licensing Qwickly Attendance Plus or Qwickly Attendance Pro, at no additional cost. Enterprise seating charts in Location Manager require a license of Qwickly Attendance Pro. As with all seating chart functionality, the mode must be enabled by the LMS administrator before instructors will see it in their courses.
To learn more about how Qwickly Attendance can transform the administrative and classroom experience at your institution, visit www.goqwickly.com.
Qwickly is heading to Dallas as a sponsor of Building Blackboard Together 2026, July 13-15 at the Hilton Anatole, with live demos of our latest attendance features.
The Qwickly team is excited to announce that we will be an official sponsor and exhibitor at Building Blackboard Together 2026, taking place July 13–15 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. BbT is the flagship event for the Blackboard community, and we're looking forward to connecting with the educators, administrators, and technologists who make it happen.
It's been an exciting year of new releases, and BbT is a great chance to see them in action.
Stop by the Qwickly booth in the Sponsor Hall on Tuesday, July 14th and Wednesday, July 15th to see live demos and chat with our team. Whether you're looking for a campus-wide attendance solution or something tailored to a specific program, we'd love to talk through what Qwickly can do for your institution.
For more information about Building Blackboard Together 2026, visit the BbT website.
Come see Qwickly at InstructureCon 2026 in Louisville this July, where we'll be demoing our newest attendance innovations.
The Qwickly team is excited to be heading to Louisville, Kentucky for InstructureCon 2026, taking place July 21–23 at the Kentucky International Convention Center. InstructureCon is one of the premier events for Canvas users and the broader Canvas community, and we're looking forward to connecting with educators and administrators who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in higher education.
It's been a big year for Qwickly Attendance, and InstructureCon is a great opportunity to see our newest capabilities in action.
Stop by the Qwickly booth in the exhibit hall to see live demos of everything above and chat with our team about how Qwickly Attendance can work for your institution — whether you're looking for a campus-wide rollout or a solution tailored to a specific program or school.
For more information about InstructureCon 2026, visit the InstructureCon website.
