Adding an Attendance activity

To track attendance in Moodle, you must first add an Attendance activity to your course site.

Step 1: Go to the course homepage and click Turn editing on.

Step 2: Click Add an activity or resource in the section where you want to add the Attendance.

Step 3: Select Attendance icon Attendance and click Add.

Note: You can make as many instances of the Attendance activity as you like. Each instance may have multiple different sessions.

Step 4: Enter a Name.

Step 5: Set the attendance grade:

Note: By default, Attendance will contribute to the course grade.

  1. Click Grade

  2. If you want Attendance to contribute to the course grade, set a Maximum points value. The default is 100.

  3. If you do not want Attendance to contribute to the course grade, change the Type to None or Scale.

Step 6: Set other options as desired.

Step 7: Scroll down and click Save and display.

Step 8: Decide on attendance marking options.

By default, the Attendance activity gives you options to mark students as follows:

Note on Point Values: The point values for each session do not need to add up to the total point values you have assigned to Attendance as a whole. Example: You have 30 class sessions and you are using the default values of 2 points for each present attendance, but you want 100 points to be added to the gradebook for perfect attendance. If a student attends every session, they will receive a total of 60 attendance points out of 60 possible points. Moodle will convert this to 100 points for the gradebook. If a student misses half the sessions and therefore only earns 30 points out of a possible 60 attendance points, the student will receive 50 out of 100 points in the gradebook.

Step 9: Go on to Adding single or multiple sessions.