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Attendance
The Attendance activity allows teachers to maintain a record of attendance, replacing or supplementing a paper-based attendance register. It is primarily used in blended-learning environments where students are required to attend classes, lectures and tutorials and allows the teacher to track and optionally provide a grade for the students attendance. The instructor can set the frequency of their classes (# of days per week & length of course) or create specific sessions.
To take attendance, the instructor clicks on the "Update Attendance" button and is presented with a list of all the students in that course, along with configurable options and comments. The default options provided are: Present, Absent, Late & Excused. Instructors can download the attendance for their course in Excel format or text format.
Sessions can also be configured to allow students to record their own attendance and a range of different reports are available.
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Can you help me please?
I'm really impressed by the addin but i've stumbled across something. I don't know if anyone else has encountered/reported this. I'm working on a sandbox/test site at the minute to launch a training website for staff in schools MIS systems delivered by the LA I work for. I'm using the attendance addin as an activity added to a topics format course which I'm using to provide information for upcoming offline/classroom courses. The face to face module is being used to capture the students' signups to the courses, but I'm using the attendance plugin to record the actual attendance at the time the course takes place. What I've discovered, in the course of testing with a batch of dummy logins, is that if I've manually enrolled a user account to the course which contains the attendance activity, they don't automatically appear in the user list when I take attendance for a session. I un-enrolled them, then logged in as one of the dummy user accounts and self-enrolled instead. When I went back and logged in as an admin the self-enrolled student was then showing on the attendance register. As I'm intending to open the course [showing the offline courses] to guest logins as well as either manually enrolling or enrolling automatically by group, I'm concerned that students enrolled on the course by this method will not show up in the user list. I haven't tested the auto-enrolment by group yet but thought I'd let you know that only self-enrolled users are visible in the attendance list.
Thanks,
Fred
Would there be any possibility that an administrative option could be added so I could toggle this site wide? It's a small thing but something that does seem to come up very often.
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-mod_attendance/issues/63 - you could try asking in the forums to see if anyone has any other ideas to help you with this.
Is it normal for the student to be able to register presence before the defined date?
thks
how can I create a new tab in manage.php page to insert a new settings form? Specifically, I don't know how to save the settings' values of the new form in a new table in database.
Thanks.
It's possible you may not get a response there either, it might be helpful for you to learn a bit more about Moodle development (The course from HRDNZ is quite good: http://www.moodlebites.com/mod/page/view.php?id=19542) or you could contract a Moodle Partner to help you make the changes you are looking for.