For Thursday 02/06/25, the campus will be closed until 12 noon today due to the severe weather. All classes scheduled after 12 noon will take place as scheduled. Students should check Canvas for details on classes.
Roll Call Attendance tool allows you to take and to grade attendance in Canvas. The Roll Call Attendance will be added as an Assignment to the Gradebook after you take attendance for the first time. By default, the attendance assignment is worth 100 points and late counts as 80%. Students do not see Attendance in course navigation.
(If you do not see the Attendance tab on the course navigation, go to Settings , select Navigation tab . Now locate Attendance and either click the 3 dots to ‘ Enable ” or drag/drop Attendance to the top panel)
How do I edit the Roll Call Attendance assignment?
How do I take roll call using the Attendance tool?
How to have the Gradebook count number of absences
Be sure to un-check “ Enable course grade scheme ” after you have set up your Attendance grading schema.
Setting the “Roll Call attendance” assignment to use new grading schema:
Canvas lets you run “ Attendance Reports ” for your course that you can download (sends to email) and open in Excel. When email is received, click link (it is a very long link ) and select Open in Excel
Excel Spreadsheet
You can set up and use a Pivot Table in Excel that quickly gives you the detail you need in an understandable format in just “three” steps.
Need to see more detail on a particular student ? Go to “ Filter ” on the imported sheet to display specifics on the student from the “raw data” sheet.
Select the original sheet displaying data, select Data from the Menu ribbon and click “ Filter ”. Each column now shows a down arrow where you can select what you want to filter. Click Select All to remove the check mark and then you can scroll and select (check) student name for detail\
Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom
From Computer
Log in and start your Zoom session with participants
From Phone
To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera