How to track Attendance aside from using Roll Call/Attendance Feature

[sheerann_pagura]

Hi,

We are using Canvas by Elsevier. Some of our Instructors are asking about the Roll Call/Attendance. Our Canvas however, does not support this feature. Is there any other way the instructor can track the attendance of her students without this feature?

Thanks,

Sheer Ann P. Pagurayan
Elsevier Online Solutions

[kblack · Accepted solution]

Hi  @sheerann_pagura  Welcome to the Canvas Community. Not really; though there is always the tried-and-true method of just doing it yourself in a spreadsheet program like Excel.  That's not as hard as it sounds to set up, because you can easily export the entire gradebook--including student names--from Canvas, as outlined here: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-16545-how-do-i-export-grades-in-the-gradebook .  That will be a CSV file, which can open in any spreadsheet program, and the instructor can remove all extraneous columns and just set up a daily attendance column in there, perhaps inputting a 1 for present and a 0 for absent.  Not ideal, but it's workable.  If they wanted to grade attendance, they could create an assignment like any other assignment and assign a grade to it and manually input the score for it at the end of the term.

Hope this helps a bit!

[sheerann_pagura]

Hi Ken,

Thank you so much for your quick response and for your help.

Keep safe.

Kind Regards,

Sheer Ann P. Pagurayan

OSCS

Reed Elsevier Philippines

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