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Roll Call Attendance? How does the admin install this app?

AmyBarr

I have faculty wanting to use Roll Call Attendance. It is apparently an external app though I'm not familiar with it. How do I install this app? I find this answer already: "an external app (LTI) used for taking attendance in Canvas courses. The Attendance tool can be used for online or face-to-face courses. Enabled at the account level, the Roll Call Attendance tool can be used by all courses in the Canvas account."

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Chris

Hi @AmyBarr,

If you're a root Canvas admin, I think you'dd need to contact your Instructure Customer Success Manager (CSM) so they can get the attentance tool enabled for your instance. If you're not a root admin, you'd likely need to ask your root admin to make that request to your CSM.

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Chris

Hi @AmyBarr,

-Chris

JeffreyMeyers

I'd really not recommend using the Roll Call Attendance tool. It has a lot of significant issues with its design and functionality, especially when used to send a grade to the gradebook.

Here are some cautions we list in our guide to it based on Canvas's own guides:

If you are using Roll Call Attendance to send a grade to the gradebook:

While you can select a percentage penalty for students who are marked as late, you cannot set this individually by student or day. There is no flexibility for how late they were.
Do not rename the "Roll Call Attendance" assignment.
Do not unpublish the assignment.
Do not switch the assignment to not count toward the final grade. This cannot be reversed.
Do not delete the assignment. (If you do, you can get the attendance assignment back by visiting the "Attendance" tab and entering attendance data; there will be a delay but it will eventually reappear on your assignments page).
Do not change the total points after entering attendance data. If you do so, you need to delete all attendance records and re-enter them for the grade to calculate correctly.

If you want to change the default points value, you have to follow a convoluted process per Canvas's guide:

Input at least one attendance value on the attendance page.
Change the points on the assignments page.
Delete all attendance records. If you do not do this, the grade calculation will be incorrect.
Reenter all attendance records.

AmyBarr

Thanks so much. I've passed this community note on to my faculty. They've been using this for years in FFT and in a different instance so they may have already figured out how to avoid issues or problems but I've let them know your advice.

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