Attendance in Hybrid Classes — Zoom Integration | Acadly
Learn how to record attendance in hybrid classes using Acadly with Zoom integration
There are many kinds of “hybrid” classes, but let’s say the setup is that some of your students are attending your lecture in-person and the others are attending remotely.
How do you automate attendance in such a class? What is the meaning of being “present” in an online class? Is counting hours the right metric?
What about in-person classes? How can physical attendance be automated?
Can a single tool take care of both kinds of attendance? Most importantly, is there a fully automated way to do this?
How does this sound?
- In-person attendance is defined as physical presence inside the classroom. An ideal automatic attendance platform for in-person attendees should detect who’s in the instructor’s proximity.
- Online attendance is defined as a student paying attention to your online lecture. Let’s say you ask students to click a button on their screen at a random point during the lecture. If they click this I’m Here button, they’re considered present. Sounds fair? In fact, let’s say you can launch these prompts any number of times during the lecture and check how many times each student responds. Fairer?
Great. Now combine both of these technologies, and you get Acadly.
For in-person attendees
Acadly helps professors discover students inside the classroom at the tap of a button using mesh-network based proximity detection technology. Not only is it fast, it does not use geolocation or biometric data in any way and is, therefore, the most secure attendance technology out there. It has been used at more than 350 US universities and continues to grow each week.
Classroom size is not an issue for the mesh-network tech. It has been used in classrooms with as many as 500 students and it works equally well in such cases too.
In-person attendance guide and demo video
For remote attendees
Acadly Pro is a virtual classroom platform that adds teaching and learning tools to Zoom. In online classes hosted via Acadly Pro + Zoom, professors can assign activities such as polls, quizzes, and word clouds, record attendance, share recordings automatically, enrich the breakout room experience, allow students to ask questions anonymously, and a lot more.
To capture attendance, professors simply need to click a button and an attendance prompt appears on students’ devices instantly. As students confirm their presence, instructors can see the attendance records at their end.
Remote attendance guide and demo video
Viewing the combined attendance records
Instructors can use both the attendance methods — the in-person and remote — in the same class. All that the instructor needs to do is tap a button and realtime attendance shows up on their laptop/mobile instantly.
Instructors can export consolidated attendance records for all classes in a course in the CSV (Excel-compatible) format any time.
If you’re looking for a hybrid attendance solution for your class, schedule a demo of Acadly Pro for your class here.
