Find the Attendance Tool
Attendance can be found under the Course Tools heading in your course navigation bar.
If you have not used the attendance tool in your course before, you will need to click the ADD ATTENDANCE button on the attendance page to enable Blackboard's attendance tracking.
Attendance Settings
The Attendance tool has 4 potential states -- present, late, absent, and excused (absent). On the Attendance Settings panel, you may enter the percentage of the possible attendance points a student would earn for each of these states.
By default, present earns 100%, late earns 50%, and absent earns nothing.
If you wish to include a points percentage with excused absences, click the toggle at the bottom of the table.
If you do NOT want to use attendance for grading, click the grading toggle.
Finally, you may set the grading scale that students will see for attendance on their grades page -- Letter, Points, or Percentage.
Add Attendance Meeting
To add a meeting (or class session) to the attendance table, navigate to the Overall Attendance page. Put your mouse pointer on the line where you wish to add a date, then click the ADD (+) button when it appears.
Your new meeting will have the same date as the previous meeting. To change the meeting date, click the date, choose EDIT MEETING.
Then select an appropriate date from the DATE PICKER
Find the Attendance Tool
The attendance tool is located under Details & Actions.
It can also be found by clicking Attendance in the Gradebook.
Add Attendance Meeting
To add a meeting (or class session) to the attendance table, navigate to the Overall Attendance page. Put your mouse pointer on the line where you wish to add a date, then click the ADD (+) button when it appears.
Your new meeting will have the same date as the previous meeting. To change the meeting date, click the date, choose EDIT MEETING.
Then select an appropriate date from the DATE PICKER
Mark Attendance
From the attendance tool, click the appropriate box for each student's attendance. The Today pill will fill automatically with the value for the column selected. To make a change, click the box you want to correct the attendance to.
