- Once the Moodle Attendance Activity is set up, click on the activity in the Moodle course page and navigate to and expand the More tab and select Status set.
- This screen allows you see the Acronym, Description and Points automatically applied to the attendance activity. The criteria fields populated are available to update by clicking on the textboxes available.
- If students are updating their own
attendance, and you would like to restrict
the
timeframe this is open to students,
populate
the Available for students
(minutes) blank
textbox
fields. This will restrict access to
students
by a number of minutes from the start of
the
session. If it is left blank, students
will be
free to update attendance at any
time.
- The Automatically set
when not
marked option is
also available to allow users to select
one
status to be automatically reflected for
all
students who have not updated their
attendances. For example, mark
as Absent if they
have
not updated their attendance record.
- Status' can be hidden or deleted by selecting the eye (hide) or Bin delete icon on the right on the relevant status line.
- If you wish to add an additional status, populate the blank fields and click on the Add button.
- Once complete, click on
the Update button
on
the base of the screen.