Follow these instructions to set up and take attendance in uLearn (Moodle).
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Open your course in uLearn and click the “Turn editing on” button
Click the plus sign to “Add an activity or resource” and choose Attendance. Generally, it is best to put the Attendance resource module at the top of the course in the same section as your syllabus. Please note that you only need to add one Attendance resource module for the course (not one for each week or class).
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3. Open “Edit Settings” for the new Attendance resourcemodule
4. Set the Maximum Grade to the amount that attendance is worth for your course. Click the “Save and Display” button.
Please note that if attendance is not counted toward students’ grades then you can set Type to “None”.
Make sure to set your Maximum Grade value correctly since it cannot be changed once you begin taking attendance.
5. In the Attendance resource, open the “Status set” tab. On this screen, you will define the point values for each attendance status - Present, Late, Excused, Absent, as well as any custom values you wish to create.
You will calculate these values to enter by dividing the total number of classes by the total number points for attendance. For example, if attendance accounts for 200 points of a student's grade and there are 20 classes in the semester then each class would be worth 10 points.
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Taking Attendance
Follow these steps to take attendance for your course.
Open the Attendance resource.module
Click “Add session” tab. Please note, you can create the session at the time of the course or you can create all your session ahead of time - whichever you prefer.
Set the date and click the “Add” button
Click the “Take Attendance” button
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5. Take the roll for you course and update the values for each student. Note that the following values are available by default. You can customize additional if needed (see below).
P - Present
L - Late
E - Excused
A - Absent
When you are finished, click the “Save attendance” button
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Grade Calculation
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The following is an explanation of how grades are calculated by the Attendance resource in uLearnAttendance module calculates grades based on a scale rather than students starting at zero and earning attendance points for each course they attend. This can be counterintuitive if you are used to zero-based natural grading. Take the following example:
For our In this test course, attendance is worth 200 points of the total grade and there are 20 session. Thus each class is worth 10 points.
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In Class 1, Student123 is “Present” and Student456 is “Absent”. Note that Student123 has 200 points in the gradebook. This is because attendance grading scales percent-wise based on a percent of the students' attendance to-date. In other words, they start with the full amount and lose points for classes not attended.
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Class 2
In Class 2, Student123 is “Present” again and Student456 is “Present”. Note that Student123 still has 200 points (100% of the total classes to-date). Student456 now has 100 points (50% of the classes to-date).
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Class 3
In Class 3, Student 123 Student123 is “Absent” and Student456 is also “Absent”. Since Student123 has attended two out of three courses, they now have two-thirds of the maximum attendance points. Student456 has attended one out of three courses and now has one-third of the maximum points.
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Conclusions
The Attendance resource modules scales the students attendance grade based on the number of classes to-datethat have taken place. This can be counter-intuitive since another method would be for students to earn one class worth of counterintuitive since to the method where students earn points for each class attended. However, that the latter method is not supported by Moodle at this time.
We recommend making your students aware of how attendance grades are calculated so they are aware when looking at know how to interpret their grade in the Gradebook.
You may also find it appropriate to adjust your midterm grades to the total attendance points earned to-date. If so, you would need to make this calculation manually before entering the midterm grade into My Union. Note that there this is not an issue for final grades since all the classes will be over at that point.have taken place when final grades are submitted.
Attendance Statuses
The following Attendance Statuses are set up by default.
Default Values
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Please note that you should think of the point values on a scale rather than actual points. For example, the default values would be:
Present - 100%
Late - 50%
Excused - 50%
Absent - 0%
You can modify these values as needed. It might make the most logical sense to set your scale based on 1. In the following example, students receive 100% for Present or Excused and 10% off for being late.
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