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Taking Attendance

To take attendance:

  1. Navigate to the UD Attendance tool in your Canvas course.
  2. Click on the name of an attendance item.
  3. If your course serves more than one course section, choose the section you are taking attendance for in the Filter by section dropdown menu.
  4. Rather than assign an attendance status to each student individually, you can start by marking all students as Present and then modify that status for individual students as needed. To do this:
    • Click on the dropdown menu under the Mark all displayed students as... subheading.
    • Select Present.
    • Click on the Mark all button.
    • Note: If, for some reason, you need to reset all students' attendance statuses, you can do this by selecting Remove all statuses from the dropdown menu and then clicking on the Mark all button.
  5. Scroll down the list of student names and mark students as Absent, Excused, or some other status by clicking on the corresponding icon next to the student's name. Attendance statuses are automatically saved as they’re marked in the table.
  6. As you’re marking attendance statuses, you can click on the plus icon in the Notes column to add a comment about the attendance record. By default, students will be able to read this note. However, you can make the note private to users with grading permissions in the course by clicking the checkbox next to Only visible to instructors of this course. Be sure to click on the Save Note button; otherwise, your note will be lost when you close out of the window.

Return to the main UD Attendance page