Attendance is an activity Moodle plugin which allows the teacher to take attendance during class, and for students to be able to view their own attendance record. It is very popular Moodle plugin among the users. It is intended to be used in blended learning environment or supplementing a paper-based attendance register.

Dublin City University helped the attendance plugin improved with new features with an aim to make it easier for staff to record student attendance. The new features added in the plugin allows:

• Allow editing teachers on a Moodle course to import a CSV file of sessions to a particular Attendance activity on their course
• Support repeating sessions when importing CSV file of sessions
• Support passwords when importing CSV file of sessions
• Support importing sessions to multiple courses at once using a CSV file, without the need for one minute difference in the start and end time
• Allow for the selection of 59 individual minutes and not intervals of 5 minutes

The new improvements helped in a more streamlined experience for teachers. The time and effort involved in configuring large classes in Moodle Attendance has been reduced significantly.

You can download the latest version of the Attendance plugin to use these new features.