E-Learning Attendance Released
3/29/2020
As mentioned in a previous news article, we’ve been working on software to take attendance in an e-learning environment. We released new functionality to TeacherEase, and it’s now available for public use.
The software allows students to check-in, declaring their intention to participate in e-learning that day. Admins enable this attendance option, and choose the attendance code that gets entered when students check-in.
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When students login to TeacherEase, they are presented with UI to check-in.
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After they check-in, they are presented with a clear message that they’ve checked-in.
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From the teacher and admin perspective, we treat the check-in as period attendance in a single class. Use the regular attendance pages to view/modify the data. For students who’ve checked-in, you’ll see the selected check-in attendance code and timestamps in the notes.
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This data can be imported into daily attendance, and viewed in the attendance reports like any other day.
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To help customers enable this functionality, we created a Knowledge Base article and video. Feel free to take a look:
https://commongoalsystems.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041181612-How-to-manage-e-learning-attendance-in-SchoolInsight-
https://youtu.be/P8XTbEcgEpk
We are also hosting a webinar on Monday at 1:00PM CT. You can register for the webinar here.
We hope this helps with your e-learning plans. Moving forward, we will continue to build functionality to support e-learning in a Google/TeacherEase environment. Feel free to read about our plans (we sketch out a future product roadmap toward the end of the guide):
Guide to E-Learning with Google and TeacherEase
If you’d like to help inform our efforts, fill out this survey to be part of our e-learning advisory team. https://forms.gle/Xm2D71YKyvUGujqBA.
The Common Goal Team