1. The Attendance Tool allows you to record attendance and allows the student to track their attendance. It consists of creating an attendance scheme, creating a register, and taking attendance. NOTE: the Attendance does not connect with the Grade book |
2. This tutorial will cover Recording Attendance. |
3. Click Management |
4. Click Attendance |
5. Click your Attendance Register, MW Classes |
6. Scroll and click the calendar icon next to the appropriate class meeting. |
7. Scroll and click the dropdown under Attendance Status |
8. Select your attendance type, in this case P for present. |
9. Click None |
10. Select L |
11. Click None |
12. Select A |
13. When finished, click Save. |
14. Scroll and click Close |
15. There is a shortcut option when taking attendance I'd like to show you. Scroll and click the calendar icon for W1W |
16. Click Set Status for All Users |
17. Click the dropdown under Status |
18. Since you would assume the majority of your students attend class, select P |
19. Click Save |
20. Click Save |
21. This fills in the status for every student. Now you can go back and change only those that were not present. Let's change TLT Student to Late. Scroll and click P next to TLT Student |
22. Select L |
23. Click Save |
24. Scroll down and click Close |
25. Now let's take a look at the Attendance Register. You'll see that is shows the attendance for each user. |
26. If we scroll to the right of the screen you'll see the percentage of classes the student has attended as well as their attendance totals. Based on the Cause for Concern I set you'll see the last student has a Concern icon next to their name. |
27. One other note, the percent attendance number cannot be automatically synchronized with the grade book in OAKS. You must manually enter these numbers into the grade book if so desired. |
28. Click Done |
29. That's it. You're done. |