How Do I Save and Send My Attendance Report in Canvas?

How Do I Save and Send My Attendance Report in Canvas?

At the end of the semester, your department may ask you to save or send a copy of your Canvas attendance report. It's quite easy to do.

 Roll Call Attendance

1. Open the Attendance tool from the left menu.

2. Click the gear wheel near the upper right corner, and select Attendance Report.

Attendance Report

3. The report will be sent to your Alamo email, usually within a couple of minutes. It will be from "Roll Call."

4. Click the link in the email to open the report.

Email of Report

5. The report a will be a csv document that opens in Excel. If you see any columns with ###### in them, simply widen the column the column to display the contents.

Attendance Report in Excel

6. If you wish to sort the report by student, click Sort & Filter in the top menu, then Custom Sort.

Choose Student Name, and then Class Date to sort each student chronologically. 

Excel Sorting

7. When you save the report, change it to an Excel (xls or xlsx) file in order to keep it in a more readable format.

Windows Files

   Download Here is an example of a final attendance report.

  Here is the Canvas help guide.