TABLE OF CONTENTS

• About the Attendance Tool
• Set Up the Attendance Tool
• Mark Attendance
  • Mark Attendance on the Meeting Page
  • Mark Attendance on the Overall Attendance Page 
• Average Attendance Grades
• Add, Edit, Exempt, and Delete Meetings
  • Add a New Meeting
  • Edit a Meeting Date
  • Exempt a Meeting
  • Delete a meeting
• Grade Attendance

About the Attendance Tool

The Attendance tool allows you to easily track attendance from within your myLesley course. For each course meeting, you can mark whether each student is present, late, absent, or excused. The attendance records for each student appear in a single column in the Gradebook alongside their grades. You may also decide whether or not to use attendance as part of the Overall Grade calculation.

Watch the Attendance Tracking tutorial video for an overview of the tool.

Set Up the Attendance Tool

Go to your course's Details & Actions menu and select Mark Attendance.

This will launch the Attendance tool. When the tool launches for the first time, you will be prompted to Add Attendance. 

Next, you will be prompted to review the settings for the Attendance values. By default:

• Present: 100%
• Late: 50%
• Absent: 0%

You may change the percentage for Late but, at this time, you cannot change the percentages for Present, Absent, or Excused.

You may decide whether or not to include the Attendance tool in your grading calculations. If you include Excused in your grade calculations, it counts as Present for scoring purposes. You will also be prompted to select a grading scale (points, percentage, complete/incomplete, or letter), which will be displayed in the Gradebook. 

Click Save to save your changes. An Attendance column will automatically be created in your course Gradebook.

Mark Attendance

Go to your course's Details & Actions menu and select Mark Attendance.

This will launch the Attendance tool. 

Mark Attendance on the Meeting Page

When the Attendance tool loads, you will be brought to the Meeting page. Here, you can mark your students' attendance for Today or use the arrows at the top of the page to navigate to previous course meetings.

Click the grid to mark your students' attendance. You may mark your students as Present, Late, Absent, or Excused.

Or, click on a column header to mark all students present, late, absent, or excused.

As you mark your students' attendance, their attendance grade will display in the grade pill. The grade is based on the schema you created when setting up the Attendance tool and is posted to the Gradebook automatically. If you change students' attendance or clear the marks, students will see the changes immediately.

Mark Attendance on the Overall Attendance Page 

Click on the Overall button to navigate to the Overall Attendance page. Here, you can mark attendance, view attendance history, edit or create new class meetings, and more.

When you navigate to the Overall Attendance page, the most recent meeting (called Today) appears on the right side of the screen. The column is purple until you add marks for all students.

To mark attendance, locate a student and a date column. Click on Mark to open a menu and select your student's attendance. You may mark your students as Present, Late, Absent, or Excused. 

Or, click on a column heading and use the menu to mark all students present or absent. You may then change individual students' statuses in the cells as needed.

As you mark your students' attendance, their Average Attendance grade will update in the grade pill. The grade is based on the schema you created when setting up the Attendance tool and is posted to the Gradebook automatically. If you change students' attendance or clear the marks, students will see the changes immediately.

Average Attendance Grades

The Overall Attendance page displays a grade pill with each student's Average Attendance grade. The grade displays using the schema you chose in the Settings panel (ex. Points, Percentage, Letter). Select a student name to view a summary of their attendance records.

At the top of the Overall Attendance page, you can view statistics about your students' attendance. These statistics include:

• Average Attendance: Average course attendance grade.
• Perfect Attendance: Percentage of students with perfect attendance.
• Average or Above Average Students: Percentage of students with average or above average attendance. This includes students with perfect attendance.
• Below Average Attendance: Percentage of students with below average attendance.

Add, Edit, Exempt, and Delete Meetings

You may add, edit, exempt, and delete meetings on the Overall Attendance page.

Add a New Meeting

To add a new class meeting, go to the column header and hover your mouse between two meeting dates (or to the left or right of a meeting date) until a purple line and + button appear. Click the + button to add a new meeting. The new meeting column will appear to the right.

Edit a Meeting Date

To edit a meeting date, click on the date in the column header to open a menu and select Edit meeting.

This will bring up a calendar. Select a new date. This will save automatically.

Exempt a Meeting

You can exempt a meeting that no longer requires an attendance grade. Students' attendance grades will update to not include the exempted meeting, even if you have already marked some or all of the students' attendance.

To exempt a meeting date, click on the date in the column header to open a menu and select Exempt meeting.

Once you exempt a meeting, that meeting's columns will appear grey and you can no longer mark students for that date.

Delete a meeting

You can delete a meeting, but at least one meeting must remain. You can't have an empty Attendance page. If you have only one meeting and you delete it, a new Today meeting will replace it.

To delete a meeting, click on the date in the column header to open a menu and select Delete meeting.

You will be asked to confirm that you want to permanently delete the meeting.

Grade Attendance

When you set up the Attendance tool, an Attendance column is added to your Gradebook automatically. Students' attendance grade is worth 100 points and is based on the grading scale you created when setting up the Attendance tool (points, percentage, letter). You may decide whether or not to use Attendance as part of your Overall Grade calculation. 

In the Gradebook Grid View, locate the Attendance column and click on the Mark Attendance icon to launch the Attendance tool.

In the Gradebook List View, click on the Attendance item to launch the Attendance tool.