Virtual Attendance overview:

Record attendance electronically for each course sessions if toggled on. This is an alternative to the paper-based attendance that allows admins and/or participants to record their attendance for each class session.

How do I enable or turn on virtual attendance?

1. First, log into Ascriptica
2. Click on tools
3. Expand the settings group, then click on user Settings
4. Click on Enable Virtual attendance to enable/turn on virtual attendance
5. Click Save
   

How do I prevent/allow participants to record their own attendance virtually?

1. First, log into Ascriptica
2. Click on tools
3. Expand the settings group, then click on user Settings
4. Ensure “Enable Virtual attendance” is toggled on
5. Click on “Allow Participants to mark themselves present/absent.” By default, with this setting on a participant can record their attendance as soon as they are approved for the course. See the following section to see how to apply additional restriction to this ability.
6. Click Save
   

How do I define the window within which participants can record their attendance virtually?

Ascriptica allows you to define how soon a participant can record their attendance and how long that option stays open. Please note that an Admin is not restricted by this setting.

1. First, log into Ascriptica
2. Click on tools
3. Expand the settings group, then click on user Settings
4. Ensure “Enable Virtual attendance” is toggled on
5. Ensure “Allow Participants to mark themselves present/absent.” By default, with this setting on a participant can record their attendance as soon as they are approved for the course. The following setting will provide some restriction to this ability.
6. Click on “Participants can only mark themselves present/absent as of the day of each session” to set the start date as the day of the class session.
7. Set the number of days after the session date to determine how long they have to record their attendance.
8. Click Save.
   

How do I record the attendance for a participant?

1. First, log into Ascriptica
2. First, open the ‘Course Enrollment’. Click here to find out how to open the Course Enrollment tool.
3. Find the course and click on ‘Open Roster’.
4. Click the “Action” menu and select “Attendance”
5. Select one or more participants from the list to record their attendance
6. Click the attendance button
7. Toggle on present/absent for each day for the selected participants
8. Click Save to save your changes