How to Use Attendance on CampusKnot (Faculty)

Taking attendance in CampusKnot gives you a record of who showed up, and you can tie it to participation and points. There are two ways to do it: run attendance on its own, or combine it with a poll.

Option 1: Take attendance as a stand alone activity.

Step 1 Choose 'New Activity'→ 'Take Attendance'

Take attendance card highlighted on the Pick activity step of New Activity creation

Step 2 Choose a timer length

💡 For the first few days of class, 20 to 25 seconds works well while students learn the routine.

Code refresh interval options with 15 sec selected and Start button below

Step 3 Click Start. The active count rises as students check in

Active members highlighted on the live attendance code screen

Step 4 Click End when you're done

Step 5 Review the attendance log, where you can adjust points per student

Attendance Log table in course sidebar, with a session date column highlighted

Option 2 Combine a poll publication with attendance

Step 1 Go to 'My Activities'

Step 2 You can choose to combine your already-taken attendance with a poll by clicking on 'Publish to students' under your drafts or scheduled polls

Step 3 Choose how you'd like to combine your attendance

Responses count as attendance: any student who submits a response is marked present, wherever they are.

Only students marked Present can take the poll: only students who checked in with the attendance code can answer, and answering keeps them marked present.

Publish poll modal with Only allow those marked Present toggle on and attendance date shown

💡 Already took attendance today? The timer options appear automatically. If you haven't, you'll set the attendance timer here first.

Publish poll modal highlighting No attendance taken message and Take attendance button

Step 4 Choose a timer and click 'Start' to launch the attendance code

Step 5 Once ready end the attendance and the platform will take you back to the poll question

Click Yes to confirm ending the attendance session.

Step 6 Your attendance is selected automatically, so it's ready to publish. Click Publish to Students

Publish poll modal with attendance toggles, Publish to Students button highlighted

Only students marked Present can respond to the poll.

How to Edit Attendance

Step 1 Navigate to 'Attendance Log'

Attendance Log menu item highlighted in the mobile course sidebar under Analytics

Step 2 Under the attendance log, search for the student's names or filter by date

Filter button highlighted in Attendance Log, showing applied date range and results count

Step 3 Hover around the individual's name and modify their attendance

Edit icon highlighted on a student's attendance cell in the Attendance Log table

Step 4 Choose from one of the three other options and click 'Save' to modify the attendance record for the individual

Attendance status dropdown with Mark as options and Save button highlighted

Add an Attendance Record

Step 1 Visit the 'Attendance Logs' section

Step 2 Navigate to 'Add Previous Attendance'

Remove icon on a session date column in Attendance Log, used to delete that attendance entry

Step 3 Input the date and time to add attendance and choose from the optoins

Add Previous Attendance modal with date, time, and status fields, cursor on Save button

Step 4 Select the 'Save' option

Remove an Attendance Record

Step 1 Visit the 'Attendance Logs' section

Step 2 Navigate to the column you'd like to delete

Step 3 Click on the red 'x' next to the date and time attendance was taken

Download Attendance

Step 1 Select the 'Download' option located at the top right corner of the attendance tool

Download button highlighted in Attendance Log toolbar, next to Filter and Add Previous Attendance

Step 2 You can download attendance from:

Newest Date to Oldest Date
Oldest Date to Newest Date