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This article will cover how to use aPlus+ Attendance for grading purposes inside of Canvas, how to set up the different options for calculating attendance, and miscellaneous attendance details to make the most of the aPlus+ Attendance tool. For information on how to take attendance after aPlus+ is set up visit
Canvas: How to Take Attendance.
- Using Attendance for Grading Inside of Canvas
- Calculations
- Miscellaneous Attendance Details
aPlus+ allows you to decide whether or not to grade attendance. If you select Record attendance as assignment grades in Attendance Setup, a published assignment will be created in Canvas and students will be able to see the attendance assignment and their attendance grade immediately. To hide the attendance grade, set the assignment Grade Posting Policy to Manually and choose when to make the grade available.
Assignments tab in left navigation:
Student gradebook view:
Choosing graded attendance settings
The assignment that is automatically created is named Attendance. This can be changed in the Canvas assignment settings.
There are four options for applying attendance to student grades:
The proportion of sessions attended via sessions taught (to date), is applied against a point value for the attendance assignment.
A set of attendance rules are defined and if these are breached, a percentage penalty against the students’ total grade is triggered. The attendance column in Canvas Grades is set to zero, so attendance does not affect students unless they breach an attendance rule.
In the example below, if Student B has more than 3 absences they are penalized 5% of their total grade. If there are 200 points in the course, the student is penalized 5% of 200 resulting in a negative score of 10 points being applied to their total grade. You can also choose to penalize tardies by setting how many tardies are equal to an absence.
Rule-Based Absolute Points Penalty – a set of attendance rules are defined and if these are breached, a point’s penalty against the student's total grade is triggered. The attendance column in Canvas Grades can be set to any point value, including 0. This gives you the flexibility of giving positive points to a student based on attendance, as well as the option of only applying negative attendance points to the grades when a penalty is involved.
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Select Penalty rules- points impact on weighted attendance from the drop-down.
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Click on +Add deduction rule and add your rule(s) for the number of points to be deducted from the final grade for breaching a rule.
In the example below, if Student C has 2 or more absences, but less than 4, they are penalized 20 points.
The number of attendance points possible in the course is entered as Assignment weighting and Total attendance points reflect the number of sessions, usually worth 1 point each. Attendance is shown as a proportion of sessions attended vs all sessions (not just the ones that have passed). Grades are a percentage of the student's attendance points out of the 'total attendance points' value, scaled to the assignment weighting.
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Enter Assignment weighting, based on the total number of points the attendance assignment is worth.
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Enter the Total attendance points attainable, usually equal to the number of sessions in the term assigned a value of one point per session.
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It is recommended to select Cap at assignment weighting to ensure that the student cannot be awarded more points than the assignment weighting specifies.
In the example that follows, the instructor has defined that students must attend 40 sessions to get full attendance and set attendance to be worth 100 points in Canvas grades. This makes each session attended worth 2.5 points. If Student D attends 4 sessions, she would have a current score of 10 points. This current score will continue to increase throughout the term.
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Student View
Seating Plan
- Printing the Seating Plan
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Access the course session in the Sessions view to create a printable register of the Seating Plan.
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You will not be able to print the grid view.