Attendance reporting
Attendance reporting is only available in sessions with an end date and time. Attendance is not tracked in course rooms.
Let Collaborate take attendance for you. Your Blackboard Learn instructors can host a Collaborate session without tracking attendance manually.
Based on criteria you and your instructors can set, Collaborate tracks if a student is present, late, or absent from a session. Collaborate then sends that information directly to the Attendance page in the appropriate Blackboard Learn course.
Attendance from the Collaborate session can be counted in each student's average attendance in the course, which can also be used in calculating student grades.
Configure attendance reporting
The Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Building Block must be enabled and configured on your system before you can use attendance reporting. Each Learn instance must also have a unique Collaborate consumer account. If you share a Collaborate consumer account between your staging and production environments, you must request an additional Collaborate consumer account.
To use attendance reporting you need to register the Cloud Site ID and enable the attendance reporting feature.
- From the Administrator Tools select Building Blocks, and Installed Tools.
- Find Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and select Settings.
- Select Cloud Site ID Registration.
- Choose Register and select Submit.
- Select Attendance Settings.
- Select the Report Attendance check box.
This allows instructors to choose to use the attendance reporting feature in their sessions. Instructors must still choose to use the feature for each session they want to track attendance. To learn more, see the instructor help for attendance reporting.
- Optionally, edit the attendance thresholds. These thresholds are not locked. Instructors can change them in their sessions.
- Late after: Attendees who join the session after the number of minutes entered are marked late. By default, attendees are late if they join the session later than 5 minutes and up to to 20 minutes after the scheduled start time. If the attendee joins a second after the 5 minutes they are marked late.
- Absent after: Attendees who join the session after the number of minutes entered are marked absent. By default, attendees are absent if they join the session later than 20 minutes after the scheduled start time. If the attendee joins a second after the 20 minutes they are marked absent.
- Required time in session: Attendees must be in the session for the percentage of time selected, or longer, to be marked present. By default, attendees must be in the session for at least half of the session running time to be marked present.
- Select Submit.