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Use sessions to track your students attendance and participation during lectures. You can also add, edit, and delete user-specific comments during sessions.

User summary overlay

Track attendance and participation during a session

1. Select the user you want to track from the session’s seating chart to bring up their user summary overlay.
2. Click Present to mark them present, or select Unexcused Absence or Excused Absence by clicking the Absent button.
3. Once you mark a user as present, adjust their participation and cold call scores using the Less and More icons.
   

   Note You can award negative scores for participation, but not for cold calls.

4. Click Add Comment to give personalized session feedback.
5. Click anywhere outside the user summary overlay to return to the session.

Note All changes save automatically inside sessions, including adjustments made to user summary overlays.

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Seating Chart

• Seating Chart basics
• Creating and using seating charts
• Creating and using sessions
  • Seating Chart sessions
  • Creating a session
  • Conducting sessions
  • Tracking attendance and participation during a session
  • Viewing session statuses in Seating Chart
  • Accessing user details in a session
  • Visualizing student progress in a session
  • Printing sessions