Attendance Tracking
Overview:
This document outlines how to comply with attendance reporting requirements for courses.
Faculty will be tracking and reporting attendance for specific periods each semester. The main objective is to identify students who have NEVER attended during the reporting period. This is a federal compliance regulation. The reporting period is unique for each part of the term. Faculty may choose to continue to utilize the attendance tracking application after the reporting period ends.
A schedule of the attendance tracking due dates is included with the grading schedule, located on the faculty grading card of my Tri-C space.
Instructions:
1. To view the Attendance Tracker portlet, log into my Tri-C space.
2. Go to the Attendance Tracking card and navigate to Attendance Tracking.
3. Once you click on the Attendance Tracker box, your course list will be displayed. Click on the Term header so that your most recent courses are on the top of your page.
4. Click on Take Roll to display the list of students for update.
5. Navigate to the date for which you are taking attendance by clicking on the left and right arrows.
5.1 Click on the date in the column header. The selected column will be shaded.
5.2 Click the circle once for a Green checkmark (signaling the student attended) and twice for a Red hash (signaling the student did not attend).
Note: There is no Save button. Once the check mark is added, a message appears indicating attendance information has been added.
Helpful tip: For ALL modalities, except fully online (DWB), you can use the Update All option to update attendance for ALL students at once.
Helpful Information:
Attendance for courses is due on the 15th day of the part of the term. You can find all the due dates on the grading schedule on the Faculty Page in my Tri-C space.
- Faculty and Deans will receive an email notification beginning 5 days before the first drop for the course part of the term. The notice is sent out in advance of the Drop for Non-Attendance run so you have a chance to address any attendance issues before a student is dropped. If the absences recorded for non-attending students are valid, then you do not need to take any action.
- Students who are dropped for non-attendance (DR) will remain on the bottom of the class list within the Attendance Tracker but will show a status of "Withdrawn" under their name until they have been reinstated into the course, if applicable.
- Upon submission of the re-enroll request, faculty will no longer be required to mark attendance on the same day that the student has been reinstated, and the student will receive an official email as soon as a colleague from the Enrollment Center has re-enrolled them in the course. Instructions on the re-enroll process can be found on MTCS > Attendance Tracking Card.
Document Information
Date
Author
Changes
02/09/2022
Cindy Shick
- Original document created.
07/11/2024
Mayara Sant'Anna de Souza
- Document converted to FS solution.
8/24/2024
Timothy Davis
- Document reviewed & review date applied
7/8/2025
Cindy Shick
- Updated documentation and removed screenshots of MTCS cards.