To utilize the Zoom feature of aPlus Attendance, please ensure the following:
- Both the instructor and the students need to be logged into using using a UNF licensed account (an email ending in unf.edu). Zoom attendance tracking will not work reliably if logged into personal accounts, or not logged in at all.
- Your Zoom sessions will need to be scheduled (as opposed to using your Zoom personal meeting link).
From within your attendance session, select the Zoom button. If this button is not shown, please contact CIRT via email, telephone, or video conferencing.
The aPlus+ Attendance Zoom screen showing various Zoom users with no statuses. The user account connection button in the top center is circled in red.
Select the Zoom session that you would like to retrieve attendance from. Note that this does not have to be the exact same time as the scheduled session in aPlus+.
The aPlus+ Attendance Zoom screen focused on connection options. Various sessions are shown and dated. The second session, at April 21, is circled in red.
aPlus+ will attempt to map the participants to students who are on the roster for the aPlus+ session that you selected. This will be based on the students email if they were logged into Zoom when they joined, or their name. You may wish to require students to register with their primary school email when setting up Zoom meetings to make sure that a match can be found.
Select "Record as Attended" to mark the matched students as attended in the session.
Note that if a student has an existing attendance status set, then it will not be overwritten. This it to protect against any manually set attendance such as ‘late’.
Note that sometimes you may see multiple entries for a student. This can be cause by waiting rooms, or a student dropping off and rejoining.
The aPlus+ Attendance Zoom screen focused on Zoom participants. Various Zoom users are listed with accompanying statuses. Record as attended button is circled in red.
Students will be marked as attended (or to the status that is setup for your school). The time that the student joined and left the zoom meeting is also shown, along with a comment noting how many minutes they attended total. This total does currently include multiple sessions if a student dropped and re-joined.
The intent of populating the times and minutes joined to make it easier to eyeball a session and make manual adjustments as needed.