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Removing Attendance Tracking

Written by Faith Visentin

Updated at June 5th, 2024

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Introduction 🗺️ Text Instructions 📄 Additional Resources

Introduction

Many instructors use attendance data as part of their focus on student retention. For each class meeting, instructors can mark whether a student is present, late, absent, or excused. The attendance records for each student appear in a single column next to other grades. On the Attendance page, profile pictures appear so you can easily identify students.

But what if we change our minds and wish to remove attendance tracking? Please see steps below:

 


🗺️ Text Instructions

To remove attendance tracking from the gradebook, go to your attendance screen and click the gear icon in the top right. From there, you can uncheck the “use attendance as grade” option.

To remove the attendance column from the gradebook completely (and permanently), you can remove it by clicking the menu shown below and selecting “delete”: 

 

 

📄 Additional Resources

To learn more about attendance tracking/data, visit this Blackboard webpage.

 


 

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