Assigning daily attendance grade with different percentages

[ibrown3]

Hello,

I give a daily participation grade to each student, so I want to be able to use the attendance feature to assign grades other than "on time" and "late" and "absent." Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

[chriscas]

Hi @ibrown3,

The attendance tool really is made only for tracking attendance, and not so much participation (but I can totally see where tracking participation would be useful too).  I think the best you'd be able to do currently for participation is to have a "no submission" assignment (or multiple of these) created to award participation points.  It may not be the prettiest thing in the gradebook if you want a separate assignment each day though.  I know some people create one assignment, and then use the rubrics feature to track participation through multiple weeks (a "week 1" criterion, then a "week 2" one, etc).  Do you think that may work for you?  If so, I can provide some guides if you need them.  Just let us know!

-Chris