Course Attendance Automation

[AdamBorntrager]

We are looking for a way to automate attendance entries for a course.  I have a Microsoft Power App that gathers the student data as they check in and puts it into a SharePoint List.  I can export the data as a CSV and manipulate it as needed.  Is there a way to upload that CSV file into the attendance for the course?  We have 180 students in a class and manual is not a good option.  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much.

[NoahBoswell]

Hi there @AdamBorntrager !

Welcome, and thank you for posting on the Instructure Community!

Unfortunately, there is not currently a way in Canvas to import a csv file into the Roll Call Attendance tool. This would have to be done manually, which I understand for your circumstance is not ideal. 

I'm sorry this isn't the answer you were hoping for, but I hope this helps!
Noah

[AdamBorntrager]

Thanks so much.  Are there any additional LTIs that might allow this sort of functionality?  I am not tied to Roll Call.

Regards,

Adam

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hi @AdamBorntrager ...

Full disclosure...  I went to the EduAppCenter website to see if I could find anything by searching the word "attendance".  I found a couple LTI external tools, but I have never used them before.  I assume that there would be some sort of cost associated with integrating either of these with Canvas.  If you are not a Canvas administrator at your school, you'd want to talk with that person or someone from your school's Online Learning / eLearning / Distance Learning team to see if purchasing something like this would be possible...if these tools had what you were looking for.  Here are a couple links for you:

• Edu App Center: Proctortrack
• Edu App Center: SEATGEN

Again, I have no idea if any of these will be helpful or not, but I thought I'd pass along the links just in case.  Good luck!

[NoahBoswell]

@AdamBorntrager , in addition to the additional information provided to you by @Chris_Hofer , I also wanted to add on that I researched these two apps because I became curious, and both of them to require a subscription. However, SEATGEN allows you to get a free trial. 

I don't think there's many LTI apps out there, especially attendance oriented that you can integrate for free inside of Canvas.