If
you wish to allow student to record
their own attendance, when setting up
session(s) in the Moodle attendance
activity as outline in
the How to add sessions to
Moodle Attendance activity article, navigate to
the Student
recording section
in the Add
Session tab.
- Select
the Allow students to
record own attendance checkbox.
- Automatic
marking is set
to Disabled by
default, this is to allows the student or
course owner to update attendance records
manually.
- If Yes is
selected students will be automatically
marked
depending on their first access to the
course.
If Set unmarked at the end of
session any students
who
have not marked their attendance will be
set
to the unmarked status selected.
- A password and / or QR code can be
set up to allow students access to update
their attendance records for the
session:
- Populate password in the text field
available if you wish to apply a specific
password.
- Select the Random password checkbox to avail of an automatically generated password.
- Select the Include QR code Checkbox to generate QR code for the specific session(s).
- Select the Rotate QR
code Checkbox to
generate unique QR code every 15
seconds.
- Select the Automatically select highest status available checkbox if you wish to automatically assign the highest grade available to students.
Note: that if this section is left blank, no password or QR code will be applied.
- Under the Show more dropdown section, the Require network address checkbox is selected by default.
- Once the Student recording section is populated chick on the Add button on the base of the screen to update the session details.
- The session details will be available to view from the Sessions tab in the attendance activity. The password and / or the QR code are available by clicking on the Password icon to the right on the specific session.
- Click on the Show QR
Code link to open the
QR
code to make available to students.