Can attendance be taken automatically?
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Create an Attendance activity
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Set the Status set appropriately. For example to mark students who accessed the course site within 5 minutes of the start of a sesion as Present, within 10 minutes as Late, and all others as Absent:
| Available for students (minutes) | Automatically set when not marked |
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| Present | 5 | |
| Excused | | |
| Late | 10 | |
| Absent | | ● |
The status will be set to Absent after the end of the session.
Note: Statuses are set by a scheduled task that runs once per hour, 8 minutes past the hour - not when the student accesses the course site, or when one of the above times lapses.
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Create a session and set Automatic marking to either Yes or Set unmarked at end of session.
Wait until at least 8 minutes past the first hour after the end of the session before viewing the attendance.