ATTENDANCE/ROLL CALL

[AbdulKhadar]

How can we effectively use the Canvas Attendance feature to track and mark student attendance in regular face-to-face sessions? Are there any solutions or best practices available to streamline this process?

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @AbdulKhadar,

Before anyone is able to provide any solutions or best practices, are you attempting to track and mark attendance for an entire sub/account (or your entire institution) or at the individual course-level?

-Doug

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @AbdulKhadar,

Before anyone is able to provide any solutions or best practices, are you attempting to track and mark attendance for an entire sub/account (or your entire institution) or at the individual course-level?

-Doug

[AbdulKhadar]

Thanks for the clarification, Doug! My initial query wasn’t specifically focused on tracking at the organizational level, but your comment definitely opens up a lot of exciting possibilities. If tracking attendance across the whole organization is an option, that could offer some really powerful solutions for managing things more efficiently. Looking forward to exploring that further!

[dbrace]

You are welcome @AbdulKhadar.

Without going into too much detail (because I do not have organizational/institutional experience with it and only at the course-level, even as a Canvas admin), the Roll Call (Attendance) feature is technically an LTI (external tool) and that complicates automation.

You might want to check with the question posted at Automatic RollCall Attendance Exporting (from October 2023) for more details.

Something else to consider in this is the possibility that individual faculty, courses, and departments (there could be others too but it depends on organizational/institutional structures) may (officially and unofficially) have different definitions related to attendance.  That could be even more complicated to deal with compared to the technological aspects.

I hope this helps, even if it is to only get you and your institution thinking.

-Doug

[jsowalsk · Accepted solution]

@AbdulKhadar Have you taken a look at this? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-is-the-Roll-Call-Attendance-Tool/ta-p/59