Actio - The Activity & Participation Tracker app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Michael Surran
First release : 23 Sep 2011
App size: 732 Kb
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company, SURRAtech, will be closing in the Spring of 2017. This app will no longer be available on the app store after June. It should continue to work on the device(s) you have installed it on, but all support and updates will end in June. Visit surratech.com for details.
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Originally created as "toy" app to track excessive talkers in business meetings, Actio has since become a serious and popular tool in education for tracking student participation, science experiments, sporting events, and much more!
Actio uses a grid of timers that are tied to one or more group of members. Tapping a timer starts the clock. Normally tapping a different timer will "hand off" the active roll, turning off the previous timer. This is great for classroom settings where one person is speaking, relay races, etc. You can change this behavior to concurrent mode to allow multiple timers to run at the same time.
Actio keeps track of the total time each member is active in a given event, and provides graphs and statistics to help you visualize how much each member was active. Actio internally tracks more specific detail, including the exact dates and times each member was active. This raw data can be exported in CSV format to be archived and analyzed in any modern spreadsheet.
Once you create your groups and add new members, Actio remembers these groups for future events. This is great for education, as you can have multiple classes stored in Actio. You can even start an event with one group, pause that event, start a different event for another group, and then go back to the original event later in the day or week and pick up where you left off!
Actio’s strength is its simplicity - it is very easy, intuitive, and fast to use. This allows you to stay focused on your event, not our app. Actio is a great tool for education, business, or anywhere you need to easily track the activity of multiple participants.
Latest reviews of Actio - The Activity & Participation Tracker app for iPhone and iPad
Very simple interface that doesnt get in the way of itself. While its geared mostly for meetings, I use it as a way to measure the amount of time spent on different tasks when Im scaling up baking recipes to help estimate labor cost.
I dont use in meetings, instead it is used to keep time of multiple projects going on where i jump between them at random intervals.
but minor bugs must be fixed
I havent yet tried to use it for it made design but can see it could work for other uses.
Love utilizing this with the family. We are becoming much better at giving each other a chance to participate in conversations.