{"id":206,"date":"2020-03-08T23:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T23:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/?p=206"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:50:57","slug":"moodle-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/moodle-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Keep Track of Attendance in Moodle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Create an Attendance activity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the course home page, click&nbsp;<strong>Turn editing on<\/strong>.<\/li><li>In the relevant section,&nbsp;click&nbsp;<strong>Add an activity or resource&nbsp;and select&nbsp;Attendance&nbsp;from the <\/strong>drop-down list.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/teaching.unsw.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/u25\/theme_button_turn_editing_on.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-207\" width=\"245\" height=\"239\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the&nbsp;<em>Adding a new Attendance<\/em>&nbsp;page, change the&nbsp;<strong>Name<\/strong>&nbsp;of the Attendance activity      (Optional).&nbsp;&nbsp;In the&nbsp;<strong>Grade<\/strong>&nbsp;section, you can change the grade type to<em>&nbsp;Scale, Point or None<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/teaching.unsw.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/u315\/AT2.png\" class=\"wp-image-208\" width=\"371\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2.png 371w, https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-250x145.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Complete the remaining fields on the page, and click&nbsp;<strong>Save and display<\/strong>.<\/li><li>On the&nbsp;<em>Sessions<\/em>&nbsp;page, click the&nbsp;<strong>Add session<\/strong>&nbsp;tab.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/teaching.unsw.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/u315\/AT3.png\" class=\"wp-image-209\" width=\"434\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.png 434w, https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-300x30.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the&nbsp;<em>Add session<\/em>&nbsp;page:<ol type=\"a\"><li>select the&nbsp;<strong>Groups&nbsp;<\/strong>to which this activity applies, if this is a group session or you can select&nbsp;All students.<\/li><li>enter the date and time of the first class.<\/li><li>you can allow students to record their own attendance by checking the box displayed.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"386\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/teaching.unsw.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/u315\/AT5_0.png\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4.png 386w, https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you want the attendance activity to be repeated for      multiple sessions of your class then do the following:<ol type=\"a\"><li>check the box which states&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Repeat the session above as follows&#8221;<\/em>.<\/li><li>check the days on&nbsp;which your classes are held.<\/li><li>select the repetition rate (&#8220;2&#8221; means the class is held every two weeks)&nbsp;<\/li><li>select the date for the last class.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/teaching.unsw.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/u315\/ATA6.png\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5.png 664w, https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Add<\/strong>&nbsp;and check that the sessions have been setup correctly.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create an Attendance activity On the course home page, click&nbsp;Turn editing on. In the relevant section,&nbsp;click&nbsp;Add an activity or resource&nbsp;and select&nbsp;Attendance&nbsp;from the drop-down list. On the&nbsp;Adding a new Attendance&nbsp;page, change the&nbsp;Name&nbsp;of the Attendance activity (Optional).&nbsp;&nbsp;In the&nbsp;Grade&nbsp;section, you can change the grade type to&nbsp;Scale, Point or None.&nbsp;&nbsp; Complete the remaining fields on the page, and click&nbsp;Save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment-moodle","category-moodle-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/lms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}