FAQ: Active Rate vs Attendance Rate

For a group:

The active rate is the percentage of how many times your groups have met out of their last 4 meetings. 

This gives you more of a realtime engagement metric for your groups because it's looking at the 4 most recent meetings.

So if a group met 3 times and marked "didn't meet" 1 time on attendance, then their active rate would be 75%.

For a person:

This is similar to the group active rate, but on an individual level. So it's how many times a person has attended their group in the last 4 meetings and given a percentage. So if John Smith attended twice out of the last four meetings, his active rate would be 50%.

This helps you understand how engaged and active a person is currently with their group. 

The attendance metric is great. However, the downside is that if John Smith attended 20 meetings in a row and missed the last 4 meetings, his attendance technically looks pretty good on paper (80%), but he has not been active lately (0% active rate), and you wouldn't know that. Something might be going on with hime and may need some immediate attention since he missed the last 4 meetings.