Most of you can ignore this article. However, there are 185 instructors who need to submit attendance for their late starting courses in which the census date is greater than 2-9-09. An e-mail was sent to your MCC mailbox detailing the courses in which attendance needs to be submitted by Wednesday, April 1st. Remember the basic rules of attendance:
(1) Enter your attendance in Banner under the 'Attendance, Withdrawal & Final Grades' menu option.
(2) Students who attend on or after the census date should be coded with a 1 in the 'Attend Hrs' column in Banner. (3) Students who have never attended the course should be coded with a 0 in the 'Attend Hrs' column in Banner.
(4) Students who have attended through the census date and have subsequently stopped attending should have a date entered in the 'Last Attend Date' column. Enter this data in the following format: MM/DD/YYYY (The most common error: entering a 2 digit year) Every student needs an attendance entry.
(5) Submit the data.
(6) Go back into the roster and check your work before closing Banner.
As you know, students will not be issued financial aid for any course in which we do not have attendance information. The good news is that in the last few years, we have successfully completed all our attendance by the deadline. So, student aid has not been delayed. I am confident the same will be true this term.
If you have any questions, please contact me. This should be a 10 minute task for each roster. If you are struggling, close Banner and call or e-mail me. We can work on it together. Once you get the hang of this process, it will be simple. I promise.
Enjoy the spring term.
PS If you are withdrawing students who never showed or stopped attending, remember to enter a last date of attendance for every W (or F grade) entered.
Betsy Ripton
Registration & Records
03/09/2009 |