I'm trying to use the Attendance activity as my attendance sheet for the first time this semester, and I am having a bit of trouble transitioning from Excel to this, for one major reason in particular:
I have 100 students, which I only see once a week. Remembering faces/names is very difficult, and the way I've pulled it off over the years is to have a notes field in my attendance spreadsheet so I can write a quick description (that only I understand, in case someone sees it accidentally and doesn't like what I wrote) of that person. Without that, I don't know how I'd return homework.
It would be great if there were a notes field that was not visible to the student, and which is persistent across sessions.
(It'd also be a lot easier to use if the category headings were in a persistent frame or something. I have a lot of categories, and it's hard to remember what order they're in...)