The document summarizes the main features of an attendance manager tool, including managing the attendance roster from the course tab, configuring attendance preferences like days and status codes, taking attendance by selecting dates and statuses for students, and optionally exporting the attendance data to other formats like spreadsheets.

1. Attendance Manager Features Tools for Effective Roll Taking

2. Features This slide show overviews the main features of the ANGEL Attendance Manager. You may use as many or as few as you need to support the learning objectives and policies of your course.

3. Manage Tab Enter your Attendance Roster from the Course Mange Tab

4. Preferences (Discussion) The Preferences utility allows course editors or course assistants to configure which days of the week the Attendance Manager should display. In addition, course editors/assistants can modify the default attendance status codes and labels by replacing the values in the appropriate fields. Click the Save button to save your changes.

5. Preferences (Image #1: Locating Preferences Link)

6. Preferences (Image #2: Preferences Options)

7. Taking Attendance (Discussion) Change Month. Select your month from the hyperlinks at the top (ensure that you are on the correct year). Date. Click the numeral date at the top of the correct column. Status. Use the Status drop-down menu to select the student's status for that day. Notes. Use the Notes field to optionally type a note regarding the student's whereabouts. Legend. Use the Legend as a reminder for what each status abbreviation is.

8. Taking Attendance (Image #1: Main Attendance Menu) Let’s Take Roll for Wed May 19, 2010. Click on the hyperlink for May 19th.

9. Taking Attendance (Image #2: Select correct month and day to open roster) Paris was excused due to illness and provided medical documentation. I noted it here.

10. Optional Feature: Exporting For Faculty who keep separate attendance rosters in the form of spreadsheets Click the Export hyperlink to export the attendance data in a tab- or comma-delimited format. Tab- and comma-delimited formats can be easily opened and viewed in any standard spreadsheet program. Export

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