Record Zoom Attendance
The Zoom integration allows instructors to record attendance based on the participants who joined their Zoom session. Zoom integration must be configured by system administrators for the Zoom button/s to show.
This functionality will work the best when students are required to sign into Zoom using their school email address. We use this address for matching the students in aPlus+.
Please note that the Zoom session must have ended before it will be available in aPlus+.
Please note that in many circumstances Zoom no longer provides us the email addresses for guest visitors. As such is will be important for students to attend the Zoom session with the name that they have recorded in Canvas to ensure a match.
Select your session by selecting the column header.
Select the Zoom button, if this button is not shown, please speak to your system Admin.
Select the Zoom session that you would like to retrieve attendance from. Note that this does not have to be the exact same time as the scheduled session in aPlus+. By default meetings +/- 24 hours are shown.
aPlus+ will attempt to map the participants, to students who are on the roster for the aPlus+ session that you selected. This will be based on the students email if they were logged into Zoom when they joined, or their name. You may wish to require students to register with their primary school email when setting up Zoom meetings to make sure that a match can be found.
Select “Record as Attended” to mark the matched students as attended in the session.
Note that if a student has an existing attendance status set, then it will not be overwritten. This it to protect against any manually set attendance such as ‘late’.
Note that sometimes you may see multiple entries for a student. This can be cause by waiting rooms.
Students will be marked as attended (or to the status that is setup for your school). The time that the student joined and left the zoom meeting is also shown, along with a comment noting how many minutes they attended total. This total does include multiple sessions if a student dropped and rejoined.
The intent of populating the times and minutes joined to make it easier to eyeball a session and make manual adjustments as needed.
Please be sure to select save when you are finished.
