Attendance

@Jon - great to hear you find the plugin useful. Your feature request would require a significant amount of effort and isn't something I would be able to volunteer my time for. Feel free to get in touch privately if you would like to fund my time to add this functionality, alternatively if you have internal development capabilities, pull requests are also always welcome!

Dan
thanks for taking this over. We use Attendance in all our classrooms that is filled out once a week by instructor and viewed by administrators. Can you please add a second (or more) sections of radio buttons? it would be useful to see student as 'present', 'tardy', or 'late' but also an optional section of radio buttons for 'contacted' 'not-contacted' (or what ever choices I want). This would allow the administration to look at the classroom and quickly see if they still need to contact students. It would make this much mre flexible.
Using this for online participation at Norwich University - Moodle 3.5 - attendance activity 2018051401 (3.5.1)

Hey Scott!
can you please create a new post in the forums here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=741 The comments area here in the plugins db is pretty useless for this sort of thing! - please also make sure you include information about which Moodle version you are using and which version of the Attendance plugin you have installed? Thanks!

Hi Dan
I have been playing and can only get the module to add to calendar if the the default "create calendar events is set to yes" If I have it off/no then even when I check the session to add to calendar it does not. We would like to have it set to not and us choose it when we want to send to calendar. This way it is safer for staff and the description kind of reads that if set to yes then all appointments got to the calendar. (is this correct?)
Also we have a quite complex calendar upload already and from a request to students we hav a set number of items in the Title. group, session, time, room. When attendance adds a calendar item it just calls all of them attendance. How tricky would it be to make the calendar entry from the attendance module also have a title? Then as per student requests they can ascertain all important info on their phone without having to open the calendar item.
Thanks again
Scott

If you are using moodle 3.5 with the latest version of the attendance and the latest moodle mobile app, teachers can use the mobile app to mark attendance for sessions within the last day. It does not currently support modifying the session attendance for a session in a previous day. If you have further questions please use the attendance forum in the using moodle course here on moodle.org instead of the comments here.

hi ,
why instructor can't use the attendance plugin via moodle mobile application ?

Posted in the forums about a bug I encountered with the Attendance Report table with Moodle 3.5.2: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=377194

@Nadine - please provide more detail in a new post in the forums here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=741 The comments area here is not very useful for this sort of thing.
Please make sure you include more information about the notification you are seeing, the Moodle version, attendance version etc - I'm not quite clear on what you mean by "notification" so please make sure this is clear in your forum post.

Some students are surprised to receive notifications for attendance for a group in which they are not, and so almost everyday. Is there an explanation. And this also occurs for an attendance which group is empty (not yet populated). Is there something I missed in my configuration.
Moreover, I set a value for each status (1.7 because it is mandatory to attend to 12 sessions and the total is 20), and I set the maximum value to 20. But when after the first session the students are graded to 20. I should they received 1.7 for the first session. Something I missed ?

Jensy - I see you have asked this question in the forums (which is a better place to ask than here) - I'll try to respond there when I have some free time.

thanks for the attendance plugin - we love it and have a question about importing sessions. We've set up the csv file:
Course Groups Date from: to: Description Repeat on Repeat every Repeat until
our-course a group 07/24/18 18:00 21:00 Lecture Tuesday 1 09/25/18
But when I upload it to Import sessions, it only creates a single attendance session - the repeat does not work.
What are we doing wrong?
thanks for any help

@Dan.... thanks very much. This is great news.

@Brian, Neil MacGill sent me a pull request to fix that a few weeks ago - it's in the latest code in github for all supported versions (including 3.4) - I'll get round to pushing that through to the plugins db at some point.

Hi.... We recently upgraded to Moodle 3.4. We're running Attendance 3.4.4. We also now use the Boost theme. We've noticed that the "Edit Settings" cog isn't present at the upper right (when accessing with an editing role; e.g., manager, teacher), as it is for all other modules. The Administration block is present when using the Clean theme. But the admin options aren't accessible in Boost since the settings cog isn't present. I've tried this on a clean install of Moodle 3.4 with Attendance 3.4.4, and I still don't see the settings cog.
I haven't been able to find anything about this. It's hard to believe it might be by-design. Perhaps I'm missing something. Any info would be great.
Thanks... Brian

@Dan Marsden Thanks!