[Attendance] Add an intentionally marked excused student in roll call

[michael_manguer]

Problem statement:

There are times when the student's attendance is intentionally excused. Leaving it just unmarked can make it subject to interpretation if the student was indeed excused or was forgotten to be called.

Proposed solution:

There should be an option to intentionally mark the student as excused. This can be part of this theme. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Themes/Roll-Call-Attendance-improvements/idi-p/588290

User role(s):

instructor,ta

[SK15]

Problem statement:

With Student athletes getting special permissions there must be a way to quickly and accurately review their EXCUSED absences. All I am seeing is either cumbersome or non existent. Unmarked is not helpful in a report, which is required. It is too time consuming and cumbersome, to have to review each students attendance and decipher what an unmarked or absent is, especially if the class has many students that are athletes.

Proposed solution:

At the bare minimum If you leave it unmarked, let the option for "excused absence" show in the report. Otherwise ad a button that says "excused absence", that is maybe Blue, or has an "E" as the symbol.

User role(s):

instructor,designer