Create an Attendance Activity in Moodle

• Create an Attendance activity
• Hide the Attendance activity and add the Attendance block
• Set up grades and variables
• Record attendance at a session or class
• Make changes to a session
• Delete a session

Advanced

• Group Mode

Create an Attendance activity

1. On the homepage of your course, click Turn editing on .
2. In the relevant section, click Add an activity or resource and select Attendance from the menu.
   
3. On the Adding a new Attendance page, change the Name of the Attendance activity (Optional).  In the Grade section, you can change the grade type to Scale, Point or None.
   
4. Complete the remaining fields on the page, and click Save and display.
5. On the Sessions page, click the Add session tab.
   
6. On the Add session page:
   • select the Groups to which this activity applies, if this is a group session or you can select All students.
   • enter the date and time of the first class.
   • you can allow students to record their own attendance by checking the box displayed. 
     
7. If you want the attendance activity to be repeated for multiple sessions of your class then do the following:
   • check the box which states "Repeat the session above as follows".
   • check the days on which your classes are held.
   • select the repetition rate ("2" means the class is held every two weeks) 
   • select the date for the last class. 
     
8. Click Add and check that the sessions have been setup correctly. 

Set up grades and variables

1. On the course home page, click on the attendance activity. 
2. Click on the Status set tab. 
3. In the variables section,
   • For Acronym, enter a code e.g. "P".
   • For Description, define the code e.g. Present
   • Enter a Point appropriate to the code. 
     
4. Click Add after adding each acronym and click Update.

Record attendance at a session or class

Before you record attendance, it's a good idea to add the Attendance block to the course home page.

1. On the course home page, in the Attendance block, click Attendance. (If you do not have an Attendance block, click the link for the Attendance activity.)
2. On the Attendance for the course\Sessions page, under Actions, click the Take attendance icon of the relevant session.
   
3. On the class attendance page, for each student, select the button in the appropriate column, and add any necessary Remarks.
   
4. When the page is completed for all students, click Save attendance.
5. You can also save and edit/complete the attendance later.  Click either the link in the Date or Time column or the Change attendance icon .
   

Make changes to the settings of a session

1. On the course home page, click the link for the Attendance activity.
2. On the Sessions tab, under Actions, click the Edit  icon for the relevant class you wish to edit.
   
3. On the Change Session section, change the class Date, Time and Description as necessary, and click Save Changes.
   

Delete a session

1. On the course home page, click the link for the Attendance activity.
2. On the Sessions page, in the Actions column, click the Delete icon, and click Continue in the confirmation page.
   
   

Group Mode

Group Mode can be enabled in an attendance activity to split the attendance taking of groups to their respective tutors/assigned persons.

To enable group mode:

1. In the course, click 'Turn editing on'
2. Click on 'Edit' beside the attendance activity and select 'Edit settings'
3. Go to the 'Common module settings' section and set group mode to 'Separate groups' or 'Visible groups'
4. (Optional) Select a 'Grouping' if you only want to use a specific set of groups to split the attendance

Once enabled, the sessions you create will be on a per-group basis. Tutors must be assigned to a group to give attendance and they can only see and give attendance for groups that they are in.

Instructors and Teaching Assistants are not affected by this and can give attendance to everyone.