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Attendance and Context card display

Question asked by Stephanie Wilson on Nov 7, 2017
Latest reply on Feb 22, 2018 by Kenneth Rogers

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I have gotten a couple questions from instructors regarding the Attendance function and the Context card which they can access from People. If they are using the Attendance function in class, it shows that they have missed classes which haven't occurred yet. For instance, we are in week 8 of our semester, the class meets 32 times. The student shows 16 days attended but 16 missed. Those last 16 haven't happened yet.

Is this a setting, a bug, or time travel?

If you look in the Attendance tool, the data is correct. But the display in the context card is confusing.

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Kenneth Rogers Nov 15, 2017 7:55 PM
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Hey there, Stephanie Wilson!

I'm with your instructors - this is pretty troublesome and could certainly cause some confusion!

I think the best course of action is to do two things:
1. I'm going to share your question with the Canvas Admins group to see if anyone else has come across this issue. Hopefully the extra visibility will help create some traction for you.
2. Have you contacted Canvas support? They should be able to tell you if it's a bug or functioning as designed.
With that said, if you've already found an answer, then we'd love to hear from you!
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- Stephanie Wilson @ Kenneth Rogers on Nov 16, 2017 7:23 AM
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  No, I haven't found a solution, and I haven't put it in as a bug. I wanted to get some feedback on it first. That's for sharing with the Canvas Admins group.
  
  Stephanie
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Tracey DeLillo Nov 16, 2017 9:28 AM
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Where in the context card is it showing attendance details? When I look at context cards, I see Roll Call as one of the last 10 graded items, with the same percentage shown in the gradebook, but nothing showing the number of days present/absent/late. Are they maybe mistaking the "missing" indicator (which refers to missing assignments) as missed classes?
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Kenneth Rogers Feb 22, 2018 6:03 AM
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Hi there, Stephanie!

I wanted to follow up on your Attendance/Context Card question and see how everything is going. It looks like Tracey DeLillo provided some extra input here that seemed very useful. Did that help out at all?

For now, I'm going to mark this question as "Assumed Answered" since it's been a bit of time since we've heard from you. Don't worry, this won't prevent further conversation in the event someone wants to add to the dialogue! We'd love to hear back from you!
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