Roll Call Attendance Tool for a Course Meeting One Day/Week

[lenz]

My course meets once a week.  How can I set up the Roll Call Attendance Tool to reflect that?  

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

Chérie

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @lenz,

The Roll Call Attendance feature "automagically" calculates a points earned value that is based on (1) the number of dates where attendance is taken, (2) the total number of possible points, and (3) whether the student was marked present, absent, or tardy.

This means that whether the class meets every day, twice a week, a rotation, once a week, or once a semester, everything is automatically calculated.

Does that answer your question?

-Doug

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @lenz,

The Roll Call Attendance feature "automagically" calculates a points earned value that is based on (1) the number of dates where attendance is taken, (2) the total number of possible points, and (3) whether the student was marked present, absent, or tardy.

This means that whether the class meets every day, twice a week, a rotation, once a week, or once a semester, everything is automatically calculated.

Does that answer your question?

-Doug

[lenz]

Doug,

Thanks for responding!  I think you're saying that, if I only take attendance for one day of the week, the other 4 (unmarked) days are automagically (⬅️ love that and will use it forever) ignored.  Is that correct?  What I really, really want to have is

• only 10 dates (1/week/10 weeks) to show because I really am that lazy, and
• the attendance "grade" to be extra credit. ( I just threw this in.  It wasn't in my original question.)

Thanks again for your response!

Chérie

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @lenz,

Yes, that is correct.  ---> I think you're saying that, if I only take attendance for one day of the week, the other 4 (unmarked) days are automagically (⬅️ love that and will use it forever) ignored.  Is that correct?

For only have 10 dates to be visible, that is not something you can do and it would need to be submitted as an Idea in the Community.

For having the attendance "grade" be extra credit, while a little more work my recommendation would to:

1. set "Attendance" to have a value (for calculating purposes)
2. set "Attendance" to not count toward the final grade
   • go to How do I use the Roll Call Attendance tool in a course? - Instructure Community - 1003
   • review the document above, focusing on the "Edit Roll Call Settings > Exclude from Final Grade" section
3. create an assignment called something like "Attendance (Extra Credit)"
   • with a "Submission Type" of "No Submission"
   • worth 0 points
4. from within "SpeedGrader" for "Attendance (Extra Credit)" or from the "Grades" of the course, enter the points earned from the actual "Attendance" assignment (where attendance was logged) for each student

When combined together, steps 3 and 4, are similar to what is mentioned for the "Create New Assignment with Zero Point Value" option in How do I give extra credit in a course? - Instructure Community - 1253.

Technically, you could also use the "Create Extra Credit with Assignment Groups" (basically you would need to use weighted assignment groups and set the total value of the course so that it is above 100%) option from above link but that would depend on the layout of the rest of your course.

I hope this helps and makes sense.

-Doug

[lenz]

Doug,

That makes great sense - thank you!  I really appreciate the help as I have no idea how many quarters it would have taken me to figure that out on my own....👧...👩...👵.....

Chérie