How does your college take attendence?

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-04-28 07:13am

You're not required to go to lectures, and thusly no one registers wether a student is there, or not...
And you don't have to pay, anyway

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-04-28 07:45am

Apart from Labs they don't and even then they don't care whether you attend or not as long you get the job done (and if you don't get the job done they don't care that you did attended).

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-04-28 07:48am

When I get there in the morning, I sign in and actually I sign out too, so I don't have to come back at the end of the day, it's only for the jobcentre so I get paid, not for if I'm there in emergencies or whatever, there are registers in classes for that.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-04-28 08:25am

I'm on a writing course, so apart from one silly cunt that teaches radio scripting the rest dont give a shit about you being there or not so long as you get the work in on time...or not too late after

Anhaga · Post by **Anhaga** » 2004-04-28 09:36am

My uni doesn't take attendance for lectures but for seminars the tutor generally has a little list that he or she checks off.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-04-28 09:38am

Most of my JC classes they didn't care. It was essentially advanced high school so they figured if you were going to pay money and then not show up it was your problem.

A few of the teachers in those clases might give you the benefit of the doubt when you are on the cusp of one grade or another if you had good attendance and participated in class a lot.

For some reason the UofA (Arizona) seems to be much more concerned about taking attendance than the local community college. Most of my classes there had roll call. One huge lecture class I had on Greek Mythology would do the pop quiz thing. Basically if it looked like a fair amount of people hadn't showed up or had left early the professor would have a 5 question pop quiz at the end of the class with the easiest questions on stuff he'd just covered. Since his class was easilly the most entertaining class I've ever had most people showed up for his class and those that didn't were stupid.

The one form of attendance I absolutely hate is the random pass around the class sign in sheet controlled by a graduate student. In this class I took the graduate assistant was in charge of attendance. He would send a sign in sheet around the class as the professor was lecturing. He didn't do this every class period but what sucked when he did was that it would start on one side of the class and go up and down the rows, except that there were big gaps between the people sitting near the front and the people sitting way in the back. Do you think my fellow students gave a shit if their classmates got signed in or not? Hell no they didn't. So that meant instead of completely paying attention to the professor people near the front had to also keep an eye out behind them for the sign in sheet since non-attendance counted against your grade.

What's even better is that the graduate assistant was an asshole about it when people complained about not getting the sign in sheet. I know I was at every class but was likely marked as absent because of this crappy sign in procedure. His procedure changed somewhat after that in that he put a note on the board about signing in on the days that he took attendance.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-04-28 03:14pm

Very few of my profs have ever taken attendance. Most of whom do take it irregularly (if very few people show up to the lecture after a test, a lot will pass around a sheet of paper for us to sign for an extra credit point on a quiz, things like that). The main exception is band (concert and marching, both of which are classes). The grades are pretty much based on attendance; if you show up to every practice, rehersal, concert, and so on, you get an A. But that's it. In most every other class, the prof couldn't care if you pass or fail; it'll reflect on your grade in the end if you don't show up regularly, though.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-04-28 03:24pm

Let's see...

Philosophy: Attendence sheet handed around.
WOTA: Attendence sheet handed around about once a week.
Speech: Ditto
English: She knows us all by name, and thus can quickly find who's missing.
Tae Kwon Do: Role call.

-Damien

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-04-28 03:34pm

Sign-in sheets in lectures and practicals (funnily enough, only science does this). Miss too many and they boot you out. The college I went to before uni (a distinction in the UK) took register by BROMCOM which was like a computer notebook (think that thing Penny had in Inspector Gadget) which used wi-fi to send who was absent and here to the main office. The tutor calls out a roll call for this.

Teacher register computer.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-04-28 03:41pm

Recording Attendance? Apart from lab practicals, field trips and such like (and of course exams) it doesn't. lectures are optional, but it is advised you attend.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-04-28 06:02pm

my uni doesn´t care. if you´re dumb or good enough to miss class, you just miss it.
afaik unis here in general don´t do that. it´s the fachhochschulen (often translated with uni for applied science) that do that for some reason. fachhochschulen suck.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-04-28 06:20pm

salm wrote:my uni doesn´t care. if you´re dumb or good enough to miss class, you just miss it.
afaik unis here in general don´t do that. it´s the fachhochschulen (often translated with uni for applied science) that do that for some reason. fachhochschulen suck.

Well, I make it a special point to attend some lectures this semester. So far I failed miserably...
And that with only two lectures a week...
Well, what are scripts for?

And yes, Fachhochschule sucks

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-04-28 10:41pm

There was one math class that did last semester. There, attendence was like extra credit: either all on your tests, or some thing with 33% per test plus attendence, whichever was higher.

English requires it, too, since we gotta do those peer editing things. And it's small enough she knows you're not there (plus if she doesn't get your draft).

Lab attendence was basically, did you get your observation sheet checked off or not in class. You had to have the info then, and couldn't get it later. If your data wasn't checked off, the lab didn't count.

And, naturally, ROTC takes attendence, though by now the LT knows who we all are anyway.

Most of the rest of my classes couldn't care less. If you don't show up, that's your problem; good luck on the tests.