Today, we're looking at a long-awaited solution to an Attendance tool shortfall.

February 09, 2024: Attendance Access Improvement!

If you've set up the Attendance tool in your courses, and you've started to enter students as present/ absent, you might have then been disappointed (or frustrated) to discover that students couldn't see their own attendance data. Then, this will be welcomed news.

With a few simple steps, you can now allow students to track their own records of attendance!

In short, you can make a module titled "Attendance" in the Table of Contents, and place a specific link into it. (The directions for making this link are described in the Knowledge Base article below.) When students click it, they'll see results that look something like this:

Learn How

• View this article on the UVM Knowledge Base: https://www.uvm.edu/it/kb/article/brightspace-attendance-tool/ and read, specifically, the section titled "Allow Students to See Attendance."
• We can help you set it up if you book a consult with us.

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