Allow or Disable Student Sign-In in the Attendance Tracker

Faculty can allow students to mark themselves as having attended a class session. Faculty can also limit student sign-in to a specific window of time. Faculty can set this to be at the start of class, or at a random time of their choosing during the class. Students will sign in by clicking a Sign In button on the course home page in CoursePlus.

 

To Enable Student Self Sign-In:

1. Click Class attendance from the Administrative Tools section of the main Faculty Tools page.
2. Click Change Sign-In Options for the class session you wish to make changes to.
3. Select the Student sign-in enabled checkbox.
4. Click Save.

Student sign-in is now enabled. This is reflected in the listing for that class:

 

To Disable Student Self Sign-In:

1. Click Class attendance from the Administrative Tools section of the main Faculty Tools page.
2. Click Change Sign-In Options for the class session you wish to make changes to.
3. Deselect the Student sign-in enabled checkbox.
4. Click Save.

Student sign-in is now disabled. This is reflected in the listing for that class:

Options for Student Sign-In:

• Remind students to sign-in — This puts a reminder on the CoursePlus home page and includes a reminder in the CoursePlus "Daily Course Notification" emails.

• Require PIN for student sign-in — Generates a PIN to be given out during class that students use during the sign-in.