How do I mark a student excused in the Attendance module?

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    Cristian Alvarado

    Roll Call, the attendance module in Canvas, does not have a concept of "excused". The only statuses possible are Present, Late, Absent and unmarked. If you're actively using attendance for grading purposes, I'd mark them as Present as the others will impact their grade.

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    Heather-Rose Lacy

    I read you were able to add a role to Canvas, so I was hoping you have access to fix the Attendance module as well. Sounds like no. 

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    Cristian Alvarado

    Roles are one of the few things Canvas does let us configure, though the options given in roles are also fairly limited.

    The Roll Call feature is totally black box, there's no configuration for this tool at all.

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