Remote "Self Registration"

[riverphoenix12]

Hi all,

I wondered if anyone could help. Given the current situation, we are conducting online learning, and we are conducting a register each to safeguard our vulnerables.

 

Doing this remotely with 2000 students is difficult; especially when some subjects are teaching 200 kids online at once in a team.

 

I wondered if anyone knew of any student 'check in' systems. My thinking here is that students can login (e.g. with their email) and 'check in' for a lesson.

 

Ideally, a system where a teacher can 'open' the register, and kids can digitally say they are in. At present, students digitally say they are in, using school chat facilities, and then teachers hunt through this and update a spreadsheet (still working on remote access to SIMS)

 

I am thinking of something in Google Forms etc, but with 5 subjects a day, this gets messy.

 

It might just be too much work and maybe I am overthinking this. I just want to speed up the process for staff.

 

Thanks

[gh5000]

Are you using any system for teaching e.g. teams or Google classroom?

 

What our school has gone for is - I push a scheduled post each day to all tutor group Google Classrooms with a new Google Form. They indicate whether they are in school or working from home. In the responses sheet I compare that to a list of students and emails to see who hasn't signed in. Just a vlookup formula.

 

For lesson attendance we are just asking teachers to track whether students are engaging in work set - are they completing the Google Doc and returning it, have they answered your Google form of questions etc and feedback those that aren't. If that isn't possible then they are instructed to ask a single question in Classroom and report those that don't respond.

[riverphoenix12]

We are using Showbie and students are “checking in” and the whole flow is working really well to be honest. Teachers are doing pretty much what you are, keeping track.

 

The issue is we want to centralise these lesson registers, as we centrally follow up non-attendance - so we are asking teachers to update the central register.

 

I did think of individual forms, or doing a script which cross references email addresses with class lists - it just feels messy.

[gh5000]

Yeah, I didn't say but we are using another form for the lesson part too. The idea being that they select the correct names and then we can do some analysis on "persistent offenders".

[riverphoenix12]

Ah thanks.

 

Sounds like we are doing similar things then.

 

I just hoped there was a better way.

 

Thanks anyway.

[gh5000]

Have model students....

[mavhc]

I can imagine the remake of Ferris Buller where he programs his computer to auto log in every morning.

 

However can't you just check the last logged in time? https://support.google.com/a/answer/4580120?hl=en