Attendance module requests

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Suggestions

Export photos in Excel or Open Office

At present in version 1.9.1 at least, the images are not being sent along with the rest of the data.

Separate sessions for Group/Grouping

Need detailed description.

'Not sure if it's ultra specific for others but we would like to be able to define location, group, category, instructor, subject, etc when adding sessions. (I have started to try my hand at programming this but I'm very new to web programming.) We also want to be able to view and edit sessions grouped according to teacher, category etc. (Barry)'

Punch in and punch out

Since we now have the start time of a session (and maybe duration) couldn't we use this to calculate whether a student is present, late, left early etc? Then we could just click "In" or "Out" and the status is calculated automatically. I would prefer that the students have to sign in/out themselves maybe with a password/barcode.

I think it will be nice in teacher view of block (Dmitry)

Increase the number of fields

'How about if we add more fields to the attendance_log table of the database as well? These extra fields could then be used to track other things such as a doctor's letter handed in. We would use it to track the status of "make up notes" we require for students who miss class.'

Reset the module/Multiple module instances

If I remove the module and then add it again, old attendance data remains. It would be great to be able to reset the module so that we can start attendance fresh for a new unit of a course. Even better would be the option of multiple attendance instances, so that we could have one module for each unit in a course!

This feature already implemented in developer's version. Deleting data not always good, so we have simple way for hide unused data - just change course's start date to actual for current course.

Now in development

Multiply sessions in day

Are we need a duration for sessions? (Dmitry)

'We can do with sessions having a duration. We need to calculate the number of hours a student was in class per week as International Students have to fulfill the minimum requirement of 15 hours per week.'

Increase the number of categories

It would make Attendance more flexible if you could increase the number of categories from the default of 4 to a maximum of 9. This would allow Attendance to be used for daily points, for example. The categories could be set up once under "Settings" as a drop-down menu "Number of categories 4-9" when you are also setting up letters and descriptions, but before sessions. You could leave the default at 4 to keep Attendance easy to use.

This feature will be in near future. You be able to use unlimited number of statuses (categories). (Dmitry)

Export days not yet used in Excel or Open Office

It would be good if you were able to export the days for the future that had not yet been filled in.

I am thinking of a situation where someone might be having a problem with Moodle and has to go back to taking the details manually. In this case, the extra days would be handy. A copy of this could be kept aside for the staff member should the need ever arise.

See also

• Attendance module official page