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Originally Posted by id10t
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)
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But (other than for real safety stuffs) what is even the point of checking attendance? Is the school somehow unable to evaluate whether the student knows the material when they leave the class? Student writes their essays, takes their tests, stands before an evaluation board, etc, etc. Thats the proof of learning which is aligned with existence of school. Who cares if they've even read the syllabus? Your situation makes it sound like some bureaucratic anti-truancy high school damage has found its way into higher learning.
Is a distinction between going to class to learn real stuff and going to class as a performance and jump through hoops.