Attendance points not carrying over to Grades

[PaulaMartin1]

This is my first semester using Canvas as an instructional platform. So far, I've been able to work through any problems, however, in reviewing my Grades ( as the instructor)  I notice that my attendance/participation total for each student has not carried over.  Each class is worth 10 points - we have had five classes so the total in Grades should show 50 points for the students with perfect attendance, and less for those who have missed a class.  - What shows is 10 points for each student not a culmination.  Because this is part of the final grade, students are not currently seeing an accurate reflection of their grade. 

Is there a setting that will roll the attendance points into Grades each time I take Roll Call or do I have to manually put those points into grades each time I take Roll Call ? 

[chriscas]

Hi @PaulaMartin1,

The Roll Call Attendance tool will only create and pass back an attendance grade to one specific assignment/gradebook column, generally with a fixed point value.  Without editing that assignment to adjust the point value every day, I don't think the tool is going to do exactly what you've described.  You could perhaps use the assignment group weighing feature to always have attendance be a certain percentage of your student's overall grade, but if you just want straight up points, it will likely be a bit more manual work.

-Chris