The Attendance tool enables you to create registers that track attendance for course-based activities in Brightspace. Use the Attendance tool to track attendance for mandatory face-to-face sessions, group discussions and project presentations. This tool is not linked to the gradebook, so attendance will not be graded automatically. However, you can assign scores to attendance in your course by entering the grades manually in the gradebook.
Why use the Attendance tool?
Assign Grades for User Attendance
- Use the Attendance tool for assessment purposes in your course.
View Attendance Results
- Click a register’s name to view or to make changes to its attendance data. This page displays all the data you have collected for your register, broken down by users and sessions.
Track Users with Poor Attendance
- Use the “Cause for Concern” metric, which places a warning icon beside student names to identify students that fail to meet your attendance requirements.
Understanding the Attendance tool
Attendance Registers
- Attendance Registers are used to group sessions. Use registers to define the sessions, attendance expectations, applicable users and enter data as you complete each session.
Attendance Schemes
- Attendance Schemes provide the criteria for marking attendance in a register. Schemes allow you to set up values that will be assigned to the students in the register. The default scheme is a Present/Absent scheme with “P” and “A” selectors to identify each value in the register.
Use and manage the Attendance tool
The FAQ links below lead to detailed instructions on how to use and manage the Attendance tool.
