Note: This tool is intended for instructors to have a general overview of student activity within a course. There is no way to grade based on this information in any automatic way. If you are looking for how to take attendance in a face to face course, please view the support document on the attendance tool (roll call) instead.

Instructors can use the Online Attendance report to view which students attend class based on the following criteria:

• Course Access: student views a page in a course
• Posts: student posts a new comment to an announcement or a discussion
• Assignments: student submits an assignment
• Pages: student creates a page
• Quizzes: student starts taking a quiz or submits a quiz

Instructors have the option to choose both the class days during the week and the criteria they want to apply. When a student meets any of the chosen criteria on the specified class days, they are marked as “attended“ for that day.

• [1] A checkmark indicates that a student has met the attendance criteria.
• [2] An X indicates that a student has not met the attendance criteria.
• [3] A shaded background indicates a non-class day. While checkmarks or Xs are displayed on non-class days, they are not included in the “Days Not Met” column.

View your course's Online Attendance report

1. Navigate to your course in Canvas.
2. In the course navigation menu, select New Analytics.
   • If you don't see New Analytics, you may need to enable it in your course. See our guide Enabling and disabling features in the navigation bar for steps on how to re-enable it.
   • If this is your first time accessing New Analytics or your course hasn't started yet, you may receive the message, "Course data is being processed. Please come back in 24 hours." If you still receive this message after waiting for 24 hours, contact AT.
3. At the top of the page, select Online Attendance.

Note: Data is refreshed in New Analytics every 24 hours. Please confirm the time data was last updated in the course, as content may be outdated compared to recent course activity and student submissions.

Specify class days

From your course's Online Attendance report:

1. Select the dropdown menu under the Class Days heading.
2. Select the days of the week that you want to track attendance.
3. Select Done.

Select attendance criteria

From your course's Online Attendance report:

1. In the upper-right corner of the page, select the Settings button.
2. Check the box next to the criteria you want to use:
   • Course Access: student views a page in a course
   • Posts: student posts a new comment to an announcement or a discussion
   • Assignments: student submits an assignment
   • Pages: student creates a page
   • Quizzes: student starts taking a quiz or submits a quiz.

   Note: If a student meets ANY of the criteria selected for a given day, that student will be marked as "attended" for the day.

3. Select Save Settings.