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Originally Posted by zakthor
Never ever did I take a class where anyone cared about attendance. That was true in high school day care. In college you're an adult and make it if you can. At least for book learning, why should showing up count for anything?
That said I'd respect a teacher that had required lectures and booted students if they didn't attend, or who didn't allow late entry to their lectures. Is rude to disrupt the people that busted their asses to be there on time.
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All colleges are required to report "first day of academic attendance" for Financial Aid recipients. Most colleges figure it is just easier to have faculty mark everyone in the class. Some colleges have it automated and tied to their online learning platforms - take a quiz over the syllabus that is worth a rounding error in points of the final grade, and when final class grade isn't null and isn't 0.0 then mark as attended. I keep trying to get permission to automate it at work, but the faculty are too inconsistent and won't do their end of things (making class available, setting dates properly etc)