Brightspace/Classes: Using Qwickly Attendance

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Follow the steps below to take attendance in your courses using Qwickly Attendance.

1. Log into classes.pace.edu using Firefox or Chrome, and navigate to your course.

2. On the blue ribbon running along the top of the screen, click Tools > Qwickly Attendance

3. If you have not opened Qwickly before, you will see the below screen. Click Begin Setup.

4. You will be taken to the Settings page.  Note: if after clicking on Attendance (Qwickly) your computer prompts you “Allow an LTI link”, choose to allow it.

5. Choose your selections on the Preferences tab and press the Save Settings button in the bottom right..

6. Click on the Attendance Statuses tab. Edit the existing two statues and/or add your own custom statuses as in the image below.

7. Save the settings and proceed to the Automatic Emails tab.

8. Choose to send emails if students are marked absent, and customize those emails as desired. Save Settings.

9. Proceed to the Grading tab.  Choose if you want to create a gradebook column for attendances and a separate column for absences. Save Settings.

10. To take attendance, click on the Attendance tab in the left side menu and choose an attendance taking option.

A. Check In - You begin the check in timer. Students log into Qwickly through their Classes course and check themselves in. The faculty member then closes the timer if a set time frame is not entered in the settings section.

B. List - The faculty member sees the list of all students and selects an attendance for each student in the list and presses the Submit Attendance button.

C. One By One - The faculty member enters an attendance status for one student, clicks the Submit Attendance button, then proceeds to the next student.

11. To check the Attendance Records later, go into Attendance (Qwicky) and choose Records on the left side menu.

 

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Article ID: 11834
Created
Thu 1/19/23 4:54 PM
Modified
Fri 11/15/24 5:30 PM