Canvas

Canvas Student Guide

There are 3 parts to the student view of aPlus+ Attendance.

Code or Button Self Registration

Code Registration from Student Perspective

Students will login to Canvas and select attendance in the course menu. They can do this using the Student Canvas App on their device or on any web browser. This will bring them to their aPlus+ Attendance student portal. They select the session that they have been given a code for and enter the code. Note that a session that is available for code entry will show in blue with a question mark next to it.

Please note that this can be restricted to a predefined IP address to allow access from the university campus only.

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Once students have entered their code and submitted, you will see their attendance appear in the attendance module for the session. You can open this session and make any edits or overrides that you wish that you wish. You may need to refresh your screen to see the updated attendance.

Button Registration from Student Perspective

Students will login to Canvas and select attendance in the course menu. They can do this using the Student Canvas App on their device or on any web browser. This will bring them to their aPlus+ Attendance student portal. They select the session that they are in and click the attendance registration button. Note that a session that is available will show in blue with a question mark next to it.

Please note that this can be restricted to a predefined IP address to allow access from the university campus only.

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Once students have submitted, you will see their attendance appear in the attendance module for the session. You can open this session and make any edits or overrides that you wish that you wish. You may need to refresh your screen to see the updated attendance.

QR code Registration from Student Perspective

Students will login to Canvas and select attendance in the course menu. They can do this using the Student Canvas App on their device or on any web browser. This will bring them to their aPlus+ Attendance student portal. They select the session that they are in and click the attendance registration button. Note that a session that is available will show in blue with a question mark next to it.

Please note that this can be restricted to a predefined IP address to allow access from the university campus only.

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Seating Chart

If seating charts are in use, and a seat has been assigned to the student for todays session, it will show in the seating chart portion of the page.



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Attendance History

The attendance history will show students their history for the course. Your institution can offer 3 levels of permission to view this data.

High level only

Attendance is shown by course sesion, with an overview of attendance only



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Detailed View

Attendance is shown by session. Showing date/time, status recorded, and minutes awarded.

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Detailed View + Instructor Comments

As above with the addition of any comments that have been entered for a session.



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