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Attendance Activity

Overview

Teachers (and students!) can take attendance during class and then students are able to view their own attendance record and teachers can run attendance reports by using the Attendance Activity. The attendance activity can be linked to the Grader Report. Teachers can use the default markings for attendance status: "Present", "Absent", "Late", or "Excused" or customize the markings.

Example

The following work flow allows students to record their own attendance in class using Moodle Attendance activity and an automatically generated password.  Follow along as Prof Andriano walks through set up, as well as using the process in class to take attendance.

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Part 1-Steps to add Attendance Activity to your course:
  1. Turn Editing On

  2. Scroll to the bottom of a mod to Add Activity/Resource
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  3. Select Attendance

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  4. Fill in the Settings as desired

  5. Save and Return to Course
2)Part 2-Add Sessions:

a)Click Set Status: identifyon the statusAttendance and points you wantlink to use.set  If allowing students to take own attendance, you can limitup the time they can access session in the Available for students column.  Select a status that will auto select if students do not select a status (absent).  

b) Add Session:sessions. Create 1 or multiple sessions.sessions where Checkyou Allowwill take attendance or check the box to allow students to recordlog owntheir attendance,own. selectNote Automaticthis marking:option Setallows unmarkedyou to check the URL.

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Individual sessions can be edited at endany of session, and check Student Password: Random passwordtime:

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3)Part 3-Take attendance:attendance

At start of class, instructor logslog in to Moodle, click to course, click on Attendance activity, click day's session, and click key icon to generate password.password (if this option was selected.  Write password on the board for students to enter.  

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Note: The default PLEA are customizable to your labels.

Student Taking Own Attendance

Student logs into Moodle, clicks to course, click on Attendance activity, and enters password.  In this example, student will need to enter password within first 10 minutes of class start time.

Attendance

Slight Highlights:

Multiple sessions:

  •  This function allows you to create multiple sessionsChanges in one simple step.
  • Session Start Date: Select the start date of your course (the first day of class)
  • Session End Date: Select the last day of class (the last day you want to take attendance).
  • Session Days: Select the days of the week when your class will meet (for example, Monday/Wednesday/Friday).
  • Frequency: This allowsProcess for aMETA frequencyCourses: setting. If your class will meet every week, select 1; if it will meet every other week, select 2; every 3rd week, select 3, etc.

 


 Once you have your sessions added, you can delete known exceptions for breaks, holiday, etc. :

 

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More atdetailed information is on the Attendance Activity Page in Moodle Docs.

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