What are some best practices for an attendance assignment?
Attendance for online and hybrid courses are automated when students submit an assignment, quiz, survey or discussion in Talon (not a 3rd party or publisher site or email). For Hybrid courses, you must manually update attendance for students who attend the in-person course, but do not submit the attendance assignment.
Attendance Assignment Best Practices
- Open the course early if you are ready - Talon course open date can be changed on the Course Management for Faculty page.
- Communication:
- Include a Welcome Announcement describing how to get started and find the attendance assignment (add a link to the attendance assignment to make navigation easy
- Email a welcome message prior to the start of the class
- Use “Attendance” in the name of the assignment/discussion/quiz/survey
- Use Remind and/or Intelligent Agent to remind those who have not done the attendance assignment
- Communicate the due date on the calendar and in the welcome announcement
- Attendance Assignment:
- Highly visible in course content (towards top/priority)
- Should be “low stakes” - an assignment that students will not stress over getting a good score on
- Have a calendar date for the attendance assignment due in the first few days (3-5 days, appropriate due date will depend on the length of the course)
- Attendance Assignment does not have an end date (to allow for late adds)
- Consider an Introduction Discussion to promote engagement and community
- Include a Start Here module - can include the attendance assignment, syllabus and any other first day type of materials.
- Make a video that shows the attendance assignment, and provides an overview of the class format (Hybrid-Asynch/Sync, Online and WebLive) and requirements.
NOTE: Online students will receive a course information email informing them of the attendance assignment requirement.
What Learning Commons will do to support
- Text message reminders sent to students with “G” at the start of the term
- Phone call/email follow ups with students with “G” at the start of the term
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