Setting Up Qwickly Attendance in Canvas

Setting up Qwickly in Your Canvas Course

• Launch Qwickly Attendance

  • Log into your LMS and select the course you’d like to set up Attendance for.

  • Find “Qwickly Attendance” in the side menu and click on it to launch Qwickly Attendance

Helpful tip: In Canvas, you can customize the order of your menu items by clicking “Settings - Navigation

• Begin Setup

  • The first time you launch Qwickly Attendance, you’ll see a screen prompting you to begin setup. Setup consists of confirming your attendance settings. 

• Save Settings

  • You can accept the default settings by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking “Save Settings” or you can customize things such as your view preferences and more. Here’s a helpful overview of all the settings you can customize. 

Settings Overview

• View Preferences: These settings affect how certain information is displayed in the tool.

• Show Absences on Take Attendance Screen: Student's absence values will be displayed next to their names

• Round Grades to Nearest Whole Number: Student's Attendance Points in the course will be rounded to the nearest whole number

• Show Unavailable and Disabled (or inactive/dropped) Students in Record: Students who have been marked unavailable, disabled or inactive in a course will be displayed in the Attendance records screen.

• Add Sessions

  Allows instructors to add sessions into their attendance record so they have a schedule for their attendance record screen.

  Check In

  Check In Timer: Setting to enable a timer for the check in sessions.

  Require QR Code:  Requires Qwickly Attendance Student App on their mobile devices. Requires a student to scan a QR code to check in.

  PIN: Setting to require a randomly generated 4 digit pin be entered for Check In mode.

• Attendance Statuses:

  • System Statuses On/Off: Turn system statuses on or off for this course

  • Custom Course Statuses: Create your own custom status for this course (if permitted)

    1. Order: The order in which the statuses appear when listed in a course

    2. Name: The name of the status

    3. Points: The percentage value of the points this status is worth

    4. Absence: The percentage value of the absence this status is worth

    5. Color: The color assigned to the status

    6. Delete: Remove a custom-made status

    7. Add status: Add a new custom-made status

• Absence Email Yes/No: If Absence Emails are allowed in the System settings, and are not configured to be the default System Level email, Instructors are able to set up their own Absence email formats

Taking Attendance

• Once you’ve saved your settings, click “Take Attendance” in the top right menu to launch your course enrollments. On this page, you’ll see all your students and the various modes you can use to take attendance. 

Attendance Record

• Also in the top right hand menu, you’ll see an item called “Attendance Record.” This page gives you a detailed overview of all your course’s attendance records. You can look up a specific student, view/edit specific session details, edit a student’s status, leave them a comment, and more. You can also export the data in a custom report.

For more information, visit the Quickly guide here