LibAnswers: Moodle FAQ

1. In the My courses page Turn editing on

2. Click on Add an activity or resource

3. Click on the Attendance icon 

4. Default name is Attendance (leave or change as preferred)

5. Click Save and display

6. In the screen that opens click on Add session (to add your class sessions)

7. The type is set to All students, you will be able to set the Date (this should be the first day of class) and then set the Time that the class starts and ends, Description can be left blank

8. Under Multiple sessions click the box Repeat on (does your class meet Mon/Wed or Tues/Thursday? Click those boxes), leave Repeat every at 1/week(s) and add the last day of class under Repeat until

9. Scroll down and click Add 

*Also see procedures on how to take attendance. 

*Here's a short video explaining this process. 

Suggestions:

Frequency - The final option, frequency, may look confusing but it is actually straightforward: if your class meets every week, as is typical, then you want a frequency of 1 week, which is the default. If your class meets every other week, then select a frequency of 2 weeks, and so on.

Description - If you wish, you may type a description for the sessions you are creating. If you leave the description field blank, it will default to "Regular class session". Finally, click the Add multiple sessions button to create your sessions. You will see a message confirming this.

Settings (Points and Descriptions) - Now it is time to set your attendance options. Select your attendance activity and you will see a bar of options, the last of which is "Settings." Select "Settings" and you are presented with acronyms, attendance status descriptions, and grade (points) to assign. By default, the status descriptions are "Present", "Absent", "Late", and "Excused".

You may prefer to change the descriptions (for example, by changing "Late" to "Tardy"), change the way points are counted, or add new status descriptions. To do the latter, fill in the fifth line and click the Add button. Important: when you hit the Add button, any changes made to existing options that were made after the last time the Update button was used will be lost. Likewise, when you hit the Update button, any changes made to the Add after the last time the Add button was hit will be lost.

Finally, when you are done changing items on this page, be sure to click the Update button to register the changes.

Some instructors use this activity for Homework.  In example - they change PLEA to CIM (Complete, Incomplete, Missing) with points 2.00, 1.00, 0.00 accordingly.