Blackboard Attendance
Qwickly Attendance allows easy tracking and grading student attendance within Blackboard. This tool will allow you to take atte...
Qwickly Attendance allows easy tracking and grading student attendance within Blackboard. This tool will allow you to take attendance for each of your classes or allow students to "check-in" to class to record their attendance.
Attendance Button You will notice in your new course shell that there is a new button titled "attendance". This button is hidden from students. If you wish to have your students to manually "check-in" to class, you will need to make this button available. If you will be taking attendance in class, you should leave this button unavailable for students.
Setting up Attendance The attendance tool allows you to customize how attendance is taken and graded in your course. To set up this tool for use in your class, click on the "Attendance" button and then on "Set Up Attendance".
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Blackboard Attendance Style of Attendance In the first setting, you can choose the style of attendance. The "List" style will display all students, while the "One By One" style displays only one student at a time.
Grading If you do not want to grade attendance, select the "No Gradebook Column" option. If you do want to grade attendance, you can choose a total amount of points to give for attendance or you can choose a number of points to give per class session. When grading attendance, you can choose the name of your gradebook column and the number of points for attendance (total or per session).
Checking In If you wish to allow students to check in to the class, you have the option to require a PIN (so students not present cannot register their attendance) or not. You must also set a number of minutes that you will allow the students to check in. Here is how this feature
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Blackboard Attendance works. When you are in class, you (the instructor) clicks on the attendance button. The timer starts to count down and a 4 digit PIN is displayed. You give the PIN to your students and they click on the attendance button and enter the PIN to register their attendance in your class. (You always have the power to override or change the attendance.)
Absence Email You now have the ability to have Blackboard send your students an email every time they are marked absent in your class. This email is customizable to fit your style.
Save Settings After you have customized all of these settings, make sure you click on "Save Settings" at the bottom of the screen.
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Blackboard Attendance Taking Attendance In the attendance screen (after clicking on the "Attendance" button in your course) you will be able to take attendance for your course. 1. This button will begin the process for students to self "check-in" to the course. This will be shown in the next graphic. 2. If you are taking attendance at the beginning of your course, you can leave the "Attendance Time" as Current. If you enter your attendance after class, you can select Custom. This will allow you to enter the date and time of the course. 3. You may give each of your sessions a title. You may want to use the date as the title. 4. If all students are Present, Absent, or Excused, you can change the status for all members of your class 5. For each student listed, you can mark them as Present, Absent, or Excused. You can also enter a comment for each student (such as tardy) 6. You must "Submit Attendance" to transfer the attendance to the gradebook.
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Blackboard Attendance Student Check-In If you "Start Check In", you will be given a a code for the students to enter in Blackboard to demonstrate that they are present. To use this feature, you must make the button available to students and provide them with the four digit code. This code will be different each time you take attendance.
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Blackboard Attendance Viewing Records To check on your class attendance records: 1. Click on the "Attendance" button in Blackboard 2. Click "View Record" at the top of the window.
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Blackboard Attendance Attendance Record When reviewing your attendance records, you have the ability to view (at a glance) how your students are doing. 1. This button gives you the ability to export your attendance to an Excel spreadsheet. 2. The first column is a list of your students (last, first) and their username. 3. These columns are each of your class sessions (where you have taken attendance). The name at the top is the "Session Title" that you assigned. You can easily see that the red box shows a student absence and the green box shows a student is present. 4. The "Points" column shows attendance points earned out of the total points for attendance for each student. (These are the values that will be recorded in the gradebook column created by Qwickly Attendance) 5. The "Absences" column shows the number of classes that a student has been absent.
