Instructure has recommended that my institution use You-Attend instead of Roll Call Attendance. I'm having a hard time finding information on it in the guides. Does anyone use You-Attend? Any advice, recommendations, or resources to share?
Hi @DSSCC …
If you are asking about this product, https://you-attend.com/ , it looks to be a third-party tool that might integrate with Canvas. You wouldn't find any documentation about You-Attend on the Canvas Community because it's not an Instructure product. In taking a look at You-Attend's website, I went to their "Documentation" page and clicked on the first link for their PDF of the Product Specification Guide. On the last page, under the heading, "Product Components", it says:
SAAS application The core of You-Attend is the SAAS (software as a service) application, hosted by You-Attend, and accessible to all users after successful implementation of the LTI integration in the customer’s learning management system.
While this does not mention Canvas specifically, it does mention "LTI integration", and so you'd need to reach out to You-Attend directly to see if integrating this third-party tool would be an option. Keep in mind there may be a cost to your school for this. If you are a Canvas administrator for your school, you'd want to speak with You-Attend or set up a demo with them if they offer that kind of thing. If you are not a Canvas admin at your school, then you'd want to connect with someone who is at your school so that you can start that conversation.
I hope this info will be helpful to you. Good luck!
I wonder why they recommended that. Are you currently using Roll Call? Is it not meeting your institution's needs?
I have no idea why. We just switched to Canvas here. At a previous institution, I used Canvas with Roll Call and it was fine. But my admins now say that the Instructure reps recommend You-Attend, so that's what we're doing. It seems weird, but that's all I know about it.
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