1. Click on the 'Tools' tab and click on the 'Course Admin' option.

2. Depending on whether or not your 'Course Admin' page is sorted by 'Category' or 'Name,' you'll either find the 'Attendance' option in the top right of the 'Tools' section or under the 'Learner Management' section.

3. Clicking on the 'Attendance' option will take you to the following 'Attendance' page of D2L.

Opening the Attendance page will prompt a screen where you can choose between the Registers and Schemes menus. Clicking on the 'What are attendance registers?' button under the 'New Register' and 'More Actions' will prompt the following pop up window:

1.  The Attendance Register navigational tab is on the left under the Course Navigational tabs. You should load into this page after clicking the 'Attendance' tool.

2. You can read more about what attendance registers are by clicking on the 'what are attendance registers?' link.

Clicking on the 'New Register' button will take you to a new page where you can make a new register.

3. Not only can you use the 'Title' and 'Description' boxes to add details and organization to your new Register, you can assign this Register to an 'Attendance Scheme,' change the 'Visibility' of the attendance register for users, change which users are included in the Register, and add or subtract 'Sessions' from the register.

4. User settings include either including all users in the course in the Register, or include certain users in the groups/sections of your class that you already have set-up. You can click on the 'Add Groups/Sections' button after choosing the 2nd option in the 'Users' section, then choose a Group or Section from the table.

5. What are sessions?

6. To customize the Session table, use the Session Name and Session Description text boxes to add names and descriptions, change the order of the Sessions quickly using the menu drop down next in the third column, and delete any unnecessary sessions using the 4th column.

Entering a number next to the 'Add Sessions' option and clicking on the 'Add Sessions' button afterword will create more session boxes in the table, as shown in the image below.

7. You might notice after customization that the 'Save and Close' button usually found at the bottom of the screen is not present. In order to save your work, click the blue 'Save' button, then click on the gray 'Cancel' button to leave the newly created Register.

8. You will now be taken back to the original 'Attendance' page on D2L. Another neat feature of this page is the ability to restore old/deleted registers you may have used before or accidentally deleted.

Clicking the gray 'More Actions' menu will show an option to 'View Deleted Registers.' Clicking this option will take you to a page where you can view a table of deleted registers and have the option to restore them to the Attendance Registers page.

This concludes the Attendance Registers section of the guide!

Choosing the Attendance Schemes menu will show a new page with the Schemes listed on a table.  Clicking on the 'What are attendance schemes?' button under the 'New Scheme' will prompt the following pop up window:

1.  The Attendance Schemes navigational tab is on the right under the Course Navigational tabs. You will have to click over to view this after choosing the Attendance tool from the 'Course Admin' page.

2. On this screen, you can see which scheme is being used for the class. In this example, the Organizational Default is set as the Attendance Scheme. You can click the drop-down menu and choose the option to View in New Window when you want to see what the scheme is.

3. Clicking on the blue 'New Scheme' button will take you to a new page titled 'New Scheme' with an area for a General Name (title) and a table where different attendance statuses can be created and altered.

4. Adding a Name to the Scheme will help keep organized if you have multiple schemes, and you can customize the scheme by adding text and symbols to the different text boxes of the table.

If you run out of Status Rows, you can use the text box next to 'Add Statuses' to put in a number and click the 'Add Statuses' button to add that many number of rows. In the below example, we added 3 new rows.

5. Clicking the blue 'Save' button will take you back to the Attendance Schemes page, where you can also change the Default Scheme to your newly made (or pre-existing) Scheme.

Click on the gray 'Set' button next to the Course Scheme that you want to set as default. A Confirmation pop-up window will appear, asking if you are sure you want to set the Scheme as the default for your course. Double check the name, then click the blue 'Set' button and your new Scheme will be set as default for the course. This means the scheme will activate and begin working as soon as you make it the default.

1. In order to add an Attendance Record, you must create at least one new Attendance Register (to edit and change this Register, please see above checklist titled 'The Attendance Registers').

2. Clicking on the blue name of the Register will take you to the new page titled 'Attendance Data - Title of Selected Register'. This will bring you to a table of the register with all sections and current students shown (to add more sessions, please review 'The Attendance Registers' checklist above).

Clicking on the paper-and-pencil icon next to a specific session will take you to a new page, where you can change the session values for students using a menu next to their names.

When you are done, click the blue 'Save' button on the bottom left to save your progress and return to the previous page. You can now change other students' attendance or click the blue 'Done' button to return to the previous page.

3. You can also change group grades, instead of individual user grades. Clicking on the 'View By:' and 'Groups:' drop-down menus will let you navigate to which group you wish to grade.

You use the same Attendance system grading the Groups as the Users, so if you wish to grade Groups and Users differently, consider creating a new Register for Groups or Users specifically.

4. Finally, whether you are grading by User or Groups, you can use the gray 'Set Status for All Users' in the top left corner to apply an attendance status to all options within the table. Clicking on the button will prompt a pop-up window that produces a menu to choose from your statuses.

5. Selecting one, click the blue 'Save' button and another confirmation message will pop-up. Double check the correct action and choose the blue 'Save' button when ready. This will overwrite any pre-existing statuses for all Users, whether they are in the User or Groups categories.

6. When you are satisfied with the Attendance statuses of your course and have saved once more (just in case), click the gray 'Close' button. This will bring you to the original table for Attendance. You can either change more statuses on different sessions, or click the blue 'Done' button to exit to the original Attendance page.