Accessing Attendance

From your Canvas Dashboard, select your course. Then select the Attendance link from the course menu. Give this a moment to load and accept the security prompt if you see one.

Attendance Setup

The scheduled sessions for your course will automatically be imported from the student information system for you, however, you can still adjust the session schedule to meet your needs by adding, editing, or deleting sessions.

By default, attendance is ungraded. To learn how to set your attendance to be graded, check out the link below.

How do I set my attendance to be part of the student grade?

Taking Attendance

There are multiple ways to take attendance. For details on each, check out the link below:

How do I take attendance? (Manual, Code Entry, & Teams Sync Methods)

The “Fill blanks” option allows you to set all attendance at once. For example, if the class was fully present except for one student then you could begin by marking everyone to Attended and adjusting just the single student who was absent.
Adjust attendance for an individual student.
Add any notes that may be relevant for a student's attendance status.
Save.

Below is a chart of the currently available statuses here at HU and their default percentage toward the student's grade. It is important that faculty apply the statuses accurately.

Status	Description	Grade Weighting
Attended	The student attended the class from start to finish.	100%
Attended - Teams	This status is the same as "Attended" but is what appears when the Teams integration is used to mark students as attended.	100%
Absent	The student did not attend class and was not excused.	0%
Late	The student attended class but arrived late.	70%
Left Early	The student attended class but left early.	70%
Excused	The instructor has excused the student from attending class. Important! This does not excuse a student for visa purposes, only for grading purposes.	100%
Watched Recording	The student did not attend class but the instructor wants to give them credit for attending after completing an additional activity, such as watching the recording.	100%

Attendance Reports

How do I access attendance reports?

Student View

Student can see the status you have assigned to them for each date and any comments that you have added. For more details about what the tool looks like to students, check out the link below:

What do students see in the Attendance tool?

Other questions? Check out the APlus+ Attendance Canvas Instructor Guide.