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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious how they're even going to track this unless they just mean section attendance. Plenty of popular undergrad classes have lectures of 400+ students. Traditionally, there is no attendance taken. Attendance and participation is only tracked at sections (1-2x/week per class with a TA) and typically there are already steep penalties for absence and non-participation.[/quote]
There’s so many online systems they could take up. We haven’t needed a headcount for attendance in decades.[/quote]

Those online systems can be -- and are -- gamed.  Students smart or connected enough to get into Harvard aren't going to be tripped up by some attendance log in. For large classes, unless you have a several attendance monitors, you'll have students log is as 'present' from a different location.  Even if the QR code changes every 5 seconds. . . . [/quote]

My office has badge scanners. Why don't schools? [/quote]
Exactly. People here are acting like it’s impossible to get students to be held accountable. It’s and scanners work. Also stop giving our lecture notes and recordings. These are students, not children.[/quote]

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