Educational Technology - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Overview
For each class meeting, you can mark whether a student is present, late, absent, or excused. The attendance records for each student appear in a single column next to other grades.
Instructions
1. Within your Blackboard course, select Mark Attendance from the right menu.
2. Click Add Attendance
3.
A) Under “Attendance Values,” you can adjust the Late percentage.
B) In the drop down “select a grading scale for the overall grade” choose – Complete/Incomplete
4. Click Save, followed by Ok
5. You can now manually mark the student’s attendance for the current day
6. Or you can select the Overall button in the upper right, to get a bird’s eye view of all attendance dates you want to mark.
Note: You can click the Gear icon at any time to re-adjust the Late percentage or grading scale for attendance.