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LTI Attendance Tool

For information on an LTI Attendance tool recently developed by Texas State that incorporates many of the features listed below, please go see their github page. https://github.com/txstate-etc/attendance

Native Attendance Tool

For information on an Attendance tool recently developed by the University of Dayton that incorporates many of the features listed below, please go see their github page. https://github.com/UDayton/attendance

Purpose

We are putting together some specifications and designs for a new tool that will track student's attendance. The idea is to have a simple table that lists each day the class meets where a teacher can insert in attendance records for each student.  I've heard there's been some interest in the community for a tool like this and it would be great to get the community involved. I'm hoping to get input from everyone about any ideas or features they'd like to see. Also, any collaboration with design, UI, or internationalization would help a lot.

Suggested Features

Please add additional features, but do not remove any.

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Task List

  1. handler

    Show a listing of dates (similar to a calendar, but in a spreadsheet-like format, rather than a monthly calendar-style view, and with the students names listed in one column on the left)

    Priority HIGH
    chaitanya.cheekate
    Feb 08, 2011
  2. handler

    Have the ability to select only certain days of the week for viewing as the default for a particular site (for example, Mondays and Wednesdays only, if it is a M-W class)

    Priority HIGH
    baholladay
    Feb 08, 2011
  3. handler

    Enter an attendance mark for each student for each date the class meets, such as P (present), A (absent), T (tardy), E (excused), H (holiday), etc. ability to assign numeric values 1 or 0 for persent or absent etc

    Priority HIGH
    baholladay
    Feb 08, 2011
  4. handler

    Listing would be sortable by name, or specific date column

    Priority HIGH
    baholladay
    Feb 08, 2011
  5. handler

    Students displayed could be filtered by group or section

    Priority HIGH
    baholladay
    Feb 08, 2011
  6. handler

    Allow faculty to export and/or print the attendance data for offline-line record keeping if needed

    Priority HIGH
    baholladay
    Feb 08, 2011
  7. handler

    Allow students to access the tool and view ONLY their own attendance data for that class

    Priority HIGH
    baholladay
    Feb 08, 2011
  8. handler

    Faculty had a place where they could define the start and end dates of class for that term

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 08, 2011
  9. handler

    There were a way to tabulate the number of absences per user and record it somewhere easily visible to faculty and students

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 08, 2011
  10. handler

    The instructor could choose to assign points for attendance, and this data could be (optionally) linked to the gradebook to give an overall attendance score (bryan note: good way would be to set weight value to attendance marking aka present = 1, tardy = .8, absent = 0)

    Priority HIGH
    ralee
    Feb 08, 2011
  11. handler

    Ability for instructors to deducts points for absence (no points for attendence but if they miss a set number of classes they will lose a set amount of points from their total points)

    Priority MEDIUM
    rnarasi
    Feb 08, 2011
  12. handler

    Convenient API for writing meetings and for reading student attendance marks from other applications.

    Priority MEDIUM
    worohregger
    Feb 09, 2011
  13. handler

    It would be nice if students could mark their own attendance since many students have their own laptop/mobile device that can access the site (restricted IP, ect)

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 09, 2011
  14. handler

    If the instructor is marking off a whole list, rather than having to click in a cell and then type a letter, maybe just a quick 'click' onto the cell to mark them as present. Multiple clicks could toggle through the list of options perhaps.

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 09, 2011
  15. handler

    The list of options should be configurable. Some courses might only need 'present' or 'absent', some might need more

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 09, 2011
  16. handler

    The option to default everyone to present and then mark them as absent. It's easier marking off 2 or 3 absent students, than 47 or 48 present students (assume 50 students in a class)

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 09, 2011
  17. handler

    Tabulation of absent days definitely.

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 09, 2011
  18. handler

    Integration with profile pictures so instructors can see the students by face rather than only by name

    Priority MEDIUM
    lcswrght
    Feb 09, 2011
  19. handler

    For each class session, the instructor should be able to specify the number of times each student is required to sign in. (aka twice in 1 day for long classes)

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 09, 2011
  20. handler

    The instructor must have the option to allow a specific number of unexcused absenses without penalty.

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 09, 2011
  21. handler

    Capability to take attendance by a TA or second instructor

    Priority MEDIUM
    ralee
    Feb 15, 2011
  22. handler

    have ability to pull in photos from the roster tool so instructor or TA can take attendance visually

    Priority MEDIUM
    ws1023@txstate.edu
    Feb 17, 2011
  23. handler

    make tool section and group aware

    Priority MEDIUM
    ws1023@txstate.edu
    Feb 17, 2011
  24. handler

    list roster and section in export file

    Priority MEDIUM
    ws1023@txstate.edu
    Feb 17, 2011
  25. handler

    What may be useful here are drop-downs from which you could choose the attendance marks

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 23, 2011
  26. handler

    Since most students are usually present, maybe the layout could default to P (present) (or whatever default the user chooses)

    Priority MEDIUM
    baholladay
    Feb 23, 2011
  27. handler

    be nice if things like holidays could be populated from a university calendar

    Priority MEDIUM
    lcswrght
    Feb 23, 2011
  28. handler

    A way to take attendance for online courses

    Priority MEDIUM
    ralee
    Apr 25, 2011
  29. handler

    The UI may be insteresting if it displayed the name and profile picture that coud be 'dragged' to the "trash" if not present.

    Priority MEDIUM
    dede.hourican
    Jun 09, 2011
  30. handler

    We can showcase the Attendance in graphical format to Students because Student will have only view permission. As per faculty, there can be links to see the add or update the attendance

    Priority MEDIUM
    gurumurthy
    Dec 02, 2013
  31. handler

    I hope attendance tool is required to use in the places of 1) Where classes are going on regularly / in parllel days / on specific dates 2) Where faculty interacts with students directly. For example, i) Faculty teach a class to student through Big Blue Button. Faculty can have option to integrate with other tools so that faculty don't need to tick attendance for eachone seperatly. For suppose, Faculty wants make attendance present to students 1) Once they join as part of online class through Big Blue Button. 2) Faculty can view that who visited the course through Statistics tool, so we can say once student clicks on tool then we can make attendance as presence to him.

    Priority MEDIUM
    gurumurthy
    Dec 02, 2013

Contributers

Please sign up if you are interested in contributing any effort towards this project.  Specify your interests.

Interest include: Analysis, Design, Frontend Coding, Backend Coding, Documentation, Testing, Internationalization

Name

Email

Interest 

Bryan Holladay

holladay@longsight.com

All

Reba-Anna Lee

RebaAnna.Lee@marist.edu

Analysis,Design,Testing and Documentation

Linda Saddington

l.m.saddington@hull.ac.uk

Analysis, Design, Testing, Documentation, Internationalization

Roger Brown

roger.brown@uct.ac.za

Design,Testing and Documentation

Lucas Wrightlwright@stlawu.eduAnalysis and Testing
Martin Ramsaysupport@lampschools.org

Analysis, Design, Documentation, Testing 

Kunal Shankarkunalshankar2@gmail.comAnalysis, Backend Coding
Joni Millermillerjm@seminolestate.edu

Analysis, Design, Documentation, Testing 

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8 Comments

  1. Kathryn Propst

    This would be helpful for instructors in the Spanish and Portuguese department at Indiana University who use a commercial gradebook package called Micrograde. It has an attendance function that is much like the spreadsheet you describe.

    It's my understanding that the LectureTools software developed and in use at the University of Michigan (with Sakai integration) has an attendance function, too. (https://www.lecturetools.com).

    In large classes, it would be useful to be able to upload/create room-specific seating charts, so that instructors could mark those absent simply by clicking the empty seats.

  2. Diana Lee Perpich

    It would be useful to have the option to turn on an "Add Attendance Sheet " option right from the Gradebook instead of having to add yet another tool/page.  It could extend the metaphor of the little black book that instructors physically carry-- a single book with two pages (grades and attendance) for each class.  It could also downplay "administrivia" look and feel of the site to students so that they don't have to see Attendance in the site navigation.  Linking to the Gradebook will be key for our instructors.

    Quick thought about the challenges involved with section/group dependency.  If Student Q starts out in Section 001 that meets on Monday and Wednesday but then transfers to Section 002 which meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, what will happen to her MW data? Presumably, it wouldn't transfer to TTH.  Would it just disappear?

  3. Roger Brown

    In my belief this tool is overdue for development, so hats off to longsight for getting it going!

    I don't think the "moving student" in Diana's comment would present to much of a challenge - the output display for such a student could just include the attendance prior to the move (ie 2 columns in a table rather than 1)

    Attendance would have to be group aware such that a tutor (or similar) would track their assigned students.  

    But large classes would be a challenge - maybe couple attendance to sms (but that does not stop student Q (attending) sms-ing Student A (absent) the "code" to register attendance)

    In addition, the ability to keep a track attendance at lectures, practicals, tutorials etc is, in my belief, a critical component of a student "warning system". In combination with marks from Gradebook a student at risk of failing a course/module might be determined sufficiently early in the semester/term for assistance/support to be offered. So I think Diana's suggestion of an attendance sheet in GB has ALOT of merit.

  4. Kumar Ch

    Hi,

    We are using sakai in our company. I would like to know, is there any progress with respect to attendance tool.

     

  5. Gurumurthy Godlaveeti

    Hello Team,

     

    I would like to know the updates on this, Please let me know.

     

    Thanks

  6. Marilyn Dispensa

    We just had a request from an instructor for this type of tool.

    He wants something that he can click on a day, see the list of students and toggle them absent.

    What's the progress on this.

  7. Kumar Ch

    Can anybody help me to sign up as contributor. I am interested in Frontend Coding, Backend Coding

     

  8. Alaa Nizar

    Hi,

    I'm Alaa NIZAR, IIHEM-Morocco

    I'm interested in testing and internationalization.

    We were using Post'em tool to achieve the result, BUT NOT as clear and concise as this tool.

    Thank you,

     

    Yours,

    Alaa NIZAR

    alaanizar@iihem.ac.ma