--- Forwarded Message from "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:25:07 -0500 >From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7135.4 lab attendance tracking (!) Some time ago (like 15-20 yrs) we decided to get out of the business of monitoring student lab attendance. First, all you're doing is verifying that they're checking in/out, not what they're doing while there. Second, the only way to really tell if the student has been working with the assigned materials is to quiz, test, or get them to use in class what they've learned. Too many instructors appease their conscience by getting these attendance stats but never take the time to know what the students have learned in the lab, or even what the lab materials are. Fast forwarding to today, nearly all of our materials are digital and online. Obviously having tracking software for who attends the lab makes even less sense. Building in a check-in method for online work (i.e., when someone logs in and logs out) would take care of that, but then who's to say who actually checked in or what they did while checked in. Bottom line... we don't track attendance. Period. >>> [log in to unmask] 4/29/2003 7:49:26 AM >>> --- Forwarded Message from "Pons, Julia (Packard)" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Pons, Julia (Packard)" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #7135 lab attendance tracking >Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:31:50 -0400 Do you have anyone who checks the students in as the enter the lab? I've experimented with several different tracking programs, but the most reliable one so far has been to simply create an excel workbook with spreadsheets for individual classes and students. As students come in the lab, the student workers take their IDs and enter the day and times on their spreadsheets. It's easy as pie to add their total time spent in the lab this way! ------------------------------------ Julia Packard Pons Language Lab Coordinator 410-532-5558 College of Notre Dame of MD -----Original Message----- From: LLTI-Editor [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 3:19 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: #7135 lab attendance tracking --- Forwarded Message from TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:08:17 -0700 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: lab attendance tracking ------------------ We are looking for a good way to track attendance in our 30-station networked lab. Student use is approximately 840 use hours per week because of a 2-hour per week lab requirement for students in all of our 111, 115, 122 and 222 language classes. This is a Mac lab running OS9, but as soon as I can convince people to dump some old software, we will move to OSX. Our university will have a 9.2% cut in budget next year, so we will need to find something very cheap. TBob -- ========================================================== Look it up in the Andy Holt Virtual Library http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml ========================================================== Robert D. Peckham, PhD Director, the Globe-Gate Project Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center Department of Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee-Martin http://globegate.org/french/globe.html