Understanding groups and groupings

The following scenario will demonstrate how to set up the Attendance activity for gruops on your module.

One of the assessment task students have to complete on ART1000 is a group presentation. To help them communicate and plan their work, the tutors want to create a wiki for each group. The tutors need to:

1. Create groups and allocate members to each group
2. Create a grouping that is made up of all the groups
3. Create the Attendance activity and release it to the grouping just created.
   

Assign attendance to Groups/Groupings

Turn editing on

Add an Activity/Resource and select Attendance.

Give a name to the Attendance activity e.g. session one, seminar one.

Select Group Mode if you want to take attendance based on selective groups, you would need to add new attendance set for each group.

No Groups set attendance for the entire class. Visible refers to if you want students to see the attendance activity or not.

Restrict access for attendance i.e. when you would like the activity to be activated or close.

Click on Save and return to course when finished.

From the Attendance dashboard, you can view sessions, add sessions, access reports, export and modify settings for attendance.

From the Add session select Session type i.e. Common or Group.

From Groups select the group you are creating attendance for, in this case it's the group called Hamlet.

Multiple sessions allows you to set up attendance for the entire semester.

Session date or Session end date here you can specify when the group meets or seminar time and when they will end (last day of semester).

Session duration allows you to set the session duration i.e. how long is the session or class duration e.g. 01:00 (one hour duration).

Session days allows you to set what day(s) of the week your class or seminar meets.

Frequency allows you to specify the frequency of seminar or class i.e. once a week for the next 3 weeks.

Description is optional.

Once you have all the settings complete click on Add session.

You will get the confirmation that the "Sessions successfully generated".

Click on Attendance and this will take you directly to the sessions created.

Attendance sessions created earlier, to take attendance click on the Green circle next to the date you want to take attendance for.

Displays all members in your session or seminar, you can now take attendance for that specific date.

Cick on Save attendance when finished.

Exporting attendance, In attendance click on the tab 'Export'. Select the settings for the export, its recommended that export attendance as an Excel document.