Create and Manage Attendance Registers

Create and Manage Attendance Registers

Create attendance registers to track attendance for your course-based activities, such as a mandatory discussion seminar.

Create an attendance register and sessions

 

Sessions are the components of an attendance register that define one or more events in your register. Your collective sessions make up your register. For example, if you want to track attendance for a weekly seminar, you would create a "Weekly Seminar" register and then add sessions for each seminar using distinguishable session names such as "Week 1," "Week 2," etc.

Attendance data is tracked for each session and displayed on the register's Attendance data page.

 

To create a new attendance register and sessions

  1. Navigate to your course, and from the navbar, click Attendance.

  2. On the Attendance Registers page, click New Register.

    The New Register page of the Attendance tool.
     

  3. Enter a Name for your register.

  4. Enter a Description.

  5. Choose an attendance scheme from the Attendance Scheme drop-down list.

  6. If you want to see a Cause for Concern icon (warning) beside under performing users' names on the Attendance Data page, enter a percentage in the Cause for Concern field that indicates your minimum attendance requirement.

  7. Select the check box to Allow users to view this attendance register.

  8. Select the users that you want to include in your register. You can choose to include all users or specific groups or sections.

  9. Add one or more sessions for your register.

    The Sessions area of the New Register page.
     

  10. Click Save.

Set your Cause for Concern percentage

The Cause for Concern metric helps you track learners that fail to meet your attendance requirements by placing the Cause for Concern icon beside their names on the Attendance Data page.

To set your Cause for Concern percentage

  1. From the Attendance Registers page, click New Register or Edit Register from the context menu of an existing attendance register.

  2. In the Cause for Concern field, enter a percentage that indicates your minimum attendance requirement.

    The Cause for Concern field.

  1. Click Save.

Enter attendance data

You can enter attendance data for each session of your attendance register.

To enter attendance data

  1. From your course homepage, navigate to Attendance.

  2. On the Attendance Registers page, click the register name used to track attendance.

  3. On the Attendance Data page, click the Enter Attendance Data icon next to a session and enter attendance data for your sessions.

    The Enter Attendance Data icon of the Attendance Data page.

  4. Use the Attendance Status drop-down lists to change the attendance status for your users. You can also click Set Status to set the same status for all users.

  5. Click Save.

  6. On the Attendance Data page, click Done.

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