Marking Attendance

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Navigate to your Course Content page and click “Mark Attendance” in the Details and Actions panel:

Left Red Arrow pointing to mark attendance blue hypertext.

Click "Add Attendance" in the popup window:

Arrow pointing to add attendance

In the Settings bar, you may select whether or not to use attendance as a grade and customize the percentages assigned to each attendance value. Click “Save” to save your selections:

Attendance settings example where Present is set to 100. Late is set to 50 and Absent is set to 0.

By default, you will see attendance for the current day with "Meeting" view selected in the top right corner:

Two buttons with the word overall in the white box and the word Meeting in the black box.

To take attendance in Meeting view, click the boxes in the columns next to each student’s name. Scores are automatically applied to your selections if you chose to grade attendance:

Example attendance selections displaying the students' attendance average.

You can also click the “Today” column heading to mark all students present/absent and access additional meeting options:

column heading options which are Mark all present, Mark all absent, Clear marks, Exempt meeting, Edit meeting and Delete meeting.

Select the "Overall" view in the corner if you would like to see full attendance with additional statistics:

Two buttons  with the word overall in the black box and the word Meeting in the white box

To create columns for additional meetings in Overall view, hover to the left or right of an existing column header and click the purple plus sign:

Plus sign for creating additional meetings

To change the date for one of the meetings, click the column heading and select "Edit meeting". Choose the correct date from the calendar that pops up:

Edit meeting selection

Calendar date selected