If you want or need to keep track of students' attendance, you can do that with the Attendance Tool. In your course, click on the "Course Admin" tab in the blue navbar.

 

          

 

Scroll down to the Learner Management section and click on "Attendance

 

          

 

Then click on the blue "New Register" button

 

          

Name the Register and then scroll down and add/name sessions where you will be taking attendance. Sessions are the components of an attendance register that define one or more events to which the register applies. For example, if you want to track attendance for a weekly seminar, create a "Weekly Seminar" register and then add sessions for each seminar (week 1, week 2, week 3, etc.). Click on the blue "Save" button when finished.

 

          

 

To enter attendance records, go back to the Attendance Tool from the "Course Admin" tab and click on your register.

 

          

 

Click on the pencil icon next to a session name to enter data.

 

          

 

Click on the "Attendance Status" Button and use the drop down to select "P" (present) or "A" (absent)

 

          

 

Finally, click the blue "Save" button when finished.