I would like to know if a student can "log in" to Moodle as a way for me to track attendance at a distant location?
I would need to know the time and date the student arrives and leaves the educational site.
I am do not have in depth knowledge of computers, so adding it to my Moodle site would have to be "easy"!
Thank you
If you got to Administration > Reports > Logs
You can see when users login and logout if you search for "All Activities" and "All Changes".
You then need to search the page for "User login" / "User logout".
You are probably best off saving the log as a spreadsheet and filtering by Action.
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Joseph Baxter
University of Nottingham
Thank you for your help- I think this will be workable, however, just one issue: when I tested it by logging in, the time recorded for the login was 1530 but should have been 1630- it appears that the login time is recorded in a different time zone possibly? Can I change this?
Hi Peggy,
This is probably due to your timezone setting for moodle if you go to Site administration > Location > Location Settings then check the value of "Default timezone".
If this is set to "Server's local time" you will need to get in contact with a systems administrator to confirm the timezone setting used by php on the server.
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Joseph Baxter
University of Nottingham
