Attendance Data

[JamesSorenson]

I've been asked to see if I can report on student attendance from within the data I'm getting from the CD2 downloads.

I'm not finding much, probably because no one has been able to show me how they take attendance.  I did find assignments titled "roll call attendance," but it doesn't appear to capture week by week attendance data.

If anyone out here is successfully reporting on attendance, I'd appreciate some guidance.

Thanks!

[Doug9]

@JamesSorenson ,  my school would also like to tap into the Roll Call Attendance data, but my information is that Roll Call Attendance data is not available in CD2 (or CD1) or by Canvas API call.  The only data option was an attendance report which can be generated, downloaded, and parsed out, but that process did not meet our needs.

[JamesSorenson]

@Doug9 My school isn't happy with the attendance reporting built in either.  I've spoiled them with so many reports and analytics products that they want the same for attendance.

[robotcars]

@JamesSorenson,

Attendance is often defined by state departments of education which might outline the requirements, the institution's use, and the data available. For Canvas, attendance can often be assessed by grouped windows of time and the possible contexts the user might have interacted with. This could be submissions, quizzes, groups, discussions, video, live sessions, external tools, conversations with the instructor or other interactions that can help identify presence. Deriving some CD user participation to the user, course, what was interacted with, and when is a start.

[Jeff_F]

Am I correct with the recollection that New Analytics will one day be part of CD2?