What is Qwickly Attendance

Qwickly allows instructors to take attendance manually, students to check in manually using a code, and for attendance to be automatically graded (optional).

Enable Qwickly Attendance

By default, Qwickly is hidden in the Canvas course navigation menu. Follow these steps to enable:

Navigate to your Canvas course.
Select Settings on the left-hand subject navigation bar.
Select Navigation at the top of the page.
Locate Qwickly Attendance, click on the three dots, and click Enable.
Scroll down and click Save. Qwickly will now be available in the left-hand course navigation menu.

Qwickly Course Settings Overview

After you have enabled Qwickly Attendance, it is now time to set up the settings.

Click on Qwickly Attendance in the left-hand menu in your Canvas course.
A new window or tab will open stating, Qwickly is requesting access to your account. Click Authorize
Click Begin Setup.
Go through each settings tabs and select your preferences. Details on settings and Adding a Custom Status.
Click Save Settings on each settings page.

Taking Attendance: List

Typically you will take attendance at the start of class, but if you forget, you can always do a Custom Time.

Navigate to your Canvas course.
Select Qwickly Attendance on the left-hand subject navigation bar.
The Take Attendance option will appear. Click any boxes that apply to the student(s) who are absent, excused, or custom setting. By default everyone is marked present. For merged courses please review Take Attendance by Sections.
When you are done click Submit Attendance.

Taking Attendance: Check In

Navigate to your Canvas course.
Select Qwickly Attendance on the left-hand subject navigation bar.
Click Check-In.
Click Start Check In.
Allow students to check-in. The students must log into Canvas. Click into the Course. Click Qwickly Attendance. Click Check In. *If you selected the PIN option in your settings, the number will appear automatically. After the PIN appears, you can give this number to your students so they can then check in on their own devices. You can click "End Check In" at any time or set a timer to have the check-in automatically stop after the time limit has ended.
When they are done click End Check In. Additional details for Check In.

Viewing Attendance Records

The Records page displays a table of all the attendance records that have been submitted for the course. If the course also uses Course Sections/tutorials/labs student grouping, there will be tabs above the table so instructors can access a table that lists all students and also the tables for each group/section.

Navigate to your Canvas course.
Select Qwickly Attendance on the left-hand subject navigation bar.
Select Records from the left-side menu to navigate to the Attendance Record page.
You will be able to see the records for each time attendance was taken. You will have the option to view totals by student, view records in ascending or descending order, and export the records to a csv file.
To search for a particular student’s attendance record, use the Search students function.

Edit Attendance records

Navigate to your Canvas course.
Select Qwickly Attendance on the left-hand subject navigation bar.
Select Records from the left-side menu to navigate to the Attendance Record page.
Use the arrows to browse through the attendance records for different sessions.
Use the Search students filter to view the attendance record for a particular student.
Click on an attendance record box under a particular session for a student to view or change the attendance record.
Click on the heading box for a particular session to change the title, date, or time of that session.

Export attendance records

Navigate to your Canvas course.
Select Qwickly Attendance on the left-hand subject navigation bar.
Select Records from the left-side menu to navigate to the Attendance Record page.
Select the tab for All Students or group of students you want the attendance record for or use the search bar if you want to export the attendance record for a particular student.
Select the Export icon. This will open a dialogue box, Record Export, which enables you to select the desired data to download.
A .CSV file containing the attendance record will be download to your device.

Adding Private/Public Comments

Qwickly Attendance allows instructors to add comments to Attendance Records. Comments are set to private by default.

Comments can be added to a record in two different areas:

When Manually Taking Attendance
When updating a record through the Attendance Record screen

Making a comment public to the student

In order to make a comment publicly visible to the student, the instructor needs to update the record from the Attendance Record screen. They will see an option above the comment box which says Visible to Students. The instructor can click on this and update the record, which will make the comment visible to students.

This comment will then be visible to students when they open Attendance.

Attendance in Grades

If you selected the Total Points or Per Session option in your settings, the points will appear automatically in the Grades.

By default the Attendance will also appear in the Assignments area. If you weight your grades you will have to assign the assignment to the appropriate assignment group. Additional details for grade center integration.

-If you do not want the first absence to not count against the students, make a custom statute called "first absence". Points 0% and Absence 0%.

Additional Resources

If you would like to explore training videos for Qwickly you can find them here: Training Videos for Qwickly Attendance