Mark a student absent
I would like to be able to mark a student absent, so I don't continually think they didn't respond. If possible, the fraction could represent the number of people present that day.
Example: I have 43 students enrolled in the class, 2 students are absent (which I would love to do via plickers - my first scan would be called attendance then if I could click their name and check a box or something to effectively eliminate them from the roster that day it would be amazing. I could do it differently if that is too difficult to program.) After the roster is adjusted for the day, I could tell if all the present students were scanned by the fraction on the screen showing 41/41.
Another option would be to change the color of a student in the grid mode to a 3rd color.
Deborah Jarvinen
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Anonymous
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No news since 2014 about this feature ?
It's very important to add it, from my point of view !
In the scoresheet, we need to make a difference between an absent children and a children who don't answer to the question. Because if a children doesn't answer, I consider he's wrong, so I want to include it in his score. -
Juan Chamorro
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It is a very good idea
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Robert Antoine
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With the new ScoreSheets, this would be VERY important as not to lower a student's score based because of attendance.
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Mrs. T.
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YES, please! Marking a student absent would be a tremendous help!
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Anonymous
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I'd like to use it to track attendance too! Right now, I am having to follow a very tedious procedure for logging my time with students for Reading and for Math all across campus. I had wondered about using a QR scanner but think Plickers might also work....but I need to be able to use the results to populate a spreadsheet type of report... I use my phone all over campus, so using it to scan your card would be great if that info could then populate a suitable report with the right details....
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Teal Cyko commented
I'd love to be able to use Plickers to take attendance. It also makes sure that students have their card.
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RAW
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I've checked, and the percentage correct answer, both in the app and in the report, is based on the number of actual votes, not on the total number of students in a class.
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RAW
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I tried to use archiving for absent students, and it works, the only downside is that the student's card becomes available again and could thus accidentally be given to a new student that is added to the class. If the original card is still available, the archived student will get it back upon unarchiving, but s/he will get a new card when the card has been given to someone else in the meantime.
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RAW
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Would it be a solution to archive that student temporarily, and activate the card again when the student is back in class?
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Cathy Harrison
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Even if they can't add a feature to mark students absent, it would be nice if students who don't answer (absent or not) aren't counted in the final "percent correct" on the report.
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Sarah
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I agree with this post! I am a specials teacher and sometimes kids are pulled out of my classes. It would be nice to mark them as absent.