We have a specific needs to track student hours in two different ways: 1)in-class lecture participation and 2) clinical or lab hours. Ideally, I would like to be able for the attendance feature to work much like a "time sheet" that instructors can log hours for students. I would like to have a set number of hours for each portion of class (lecture and lab), and be able to subtract time when students are late, I guess this would translate to be something like the ability to add multiple tardies to one attendance event. For example, as I have it set now, a tardy is equal to 15 minutes, however if a student is late 45 minutes, I want to be able to give that student 3 tardies (the equivilent of 45 minutes). I also want to be able to modify lecture and lab hours as needed. For example, if lecture goes beyond my set time and lab time is less, I would like to be able to change that easily just for that day. Right now, it's a little cumbersome with canceling and adding a new event. So a time sheet entry would be great in addition to not only tracking percentages but calculating the numbers of hours (so I don't have to work backwards to figure out the calculation). I currently use an excel spreadsheet that meets these needs, but the students do not have access to it. We would like to utilize Populi for this rather than seeking out an external program that could do this. I would be happy to talk to someone and share my spreadsheet to give you exactly what I want. Your rep told me to make a request, so I'm asking for the moon! Thank you for your consideration!
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Adam Sentz @Tiffany - Sounds like you're looking for 1) attendance to be weighted by event durations, and 2) the ability to record attendance more than once per event. Does that sound right to you?
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Tiffany Liddell I think so...if weighted by events you mean the ability to track two different types of events within the same course, then yes:) I wanted to be able to designate time for events separately, but within the same course. Which I can do by setting two different meeting times, except those events seem to be cumulative (even though attendance is taken separately) rather than treated as two separate types, such as the first for lecture hours and the second event as clinical hours.
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Angelika Steinberg This would be really helpful for our organization, too!
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Adam Sentz @Tiffany - By weighted I mean that, for example, a 2 hour event would count twice as much as an 1 hour event.
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Sean Neesley "a 2 hour event would count twice as much as an 1 hour event"
@Adam - I would love to have 'weighted' events in that sense