How to Make a Presence in Moodle in 4 Steps

Step 3: Adding Attendance Details

You need to specify various details for the attendance, such as its validity period, the number of repetitions, and its end date. Here’s how to add attendance details:

1. Click the Attendance that you have added
   
2. Click Add session to add attendance specific details.
   
3. In the Add session section, add (1) the valid attendance start date, (2) valid attendance hours, and (3) create an event calendar.
   
4. In the Multiple sessions section, check (1) session repetition, (2) add what days the presence is valid, (3) how many times a week it repeats, and (4) the time limit for the presence to be active.
   
5. If you have done, then click Add.
6. The daily attendance display is as below. To take student attendance, click the Play button on the desired day.
   
7. Take attendance by selecting the P/L/E/A options for the desired students. You can also add notes in the Remarks section:
   P = Present, when the student is present.
   L = Late, when the student arrives late.
   E = Excused, when the student has a valid reason for absence.
   A = Absent, when the student is absent without any information
8. If you have made a presence, please click Save and show next page.

In the example above, the list of students appearing in the attendance is still one person. If you haven’t added students to the course yet, there is no list of student names.

Therefore, you need to add students to the course or subject so their names can show up in the attendance.

Step 4: Adding Students to Attendance

Before adding student names in the attendance list, you need to add the students to Moodle first. Once that’s done, follow these steps:

1. Make sure Edit mode is still active, then go to the lesson you want > open the Participants tab.
   
2. Click the Enroll users button
   
3. In the Select users section, select the students who registered for the lesson. This student name option appears when you have added students in Moodle.
   
4. In the Assign role section, select Student. Then click Enroll users.
   
5. After successfully adding some students, it will look like this
   
6. When you enter attendance, the names will automatically enter with a display like the one below. Next, you can take attendance for each student, then click Save and show next page
   

If attendance recording is complete, you can download the attendance data from Moodle. To do this, click Export, select the data you want to download, choose the desired file format (e.g. Excel), and click OK.

Have you succeeded in creating a presence in Moodle?

Once you’ve completed the steps to create attendance in Moodle and add students to the attendance system in Moodle, tracking student attendance becomes much easier.

Beside adding attendance features, for enhancing the appearance of your LMS website, you can easily change the theme in Moodle as well. There are many free themes available in the Moodle plugin directory.

Moodle itself is one of open-source LMS that facilitates the development of online learning systems. However, building such systems requires technical expertise.

Developing classroom or learning management systems is one of the specialties of the Tonjoo team. Some examples of Tonjoo’s work include eLOK UGM and FutureSkills. If you need assistance in developing an online class website, feel free to contact us.