Why doesn't Canvas Attendance have an "excused" option in taking attendance. We often have to track excused and unexcused absences, yet there's no real way to do that.
Hi @DennisShea -
You're right. I think many instructors would appreciate this option. This has been included in the long-standing Attendance Overhaul thread. (It's the only Idea Conversation focusing on an entire feature vs. a single functionality/change). I hope you can join the discussion and share your use case.
I'm sorry that I don't have better news to share, but you will receive updates on updates to attendance when you follow that thread.
I also need an excused option placed with attended, absent or tardy. The students can't see the badges so I have to count excused students as present, so it doesn't count against their total, but is also inaccurate. Please fix this!
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