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Event Attendance - How to Use a Card Scanner

This tutorial details how to use a card scanner in conjunction with the Event Attendance application.

Card scanners can be used to take attendance with Event Attendance. In order to accomplish this...

1.) Navigate to the event you want to take attendance for. You can either create a new event or choose an existing event. For more information on that, look at these tutorials: 
2.) Plug in the card scanner to the computer. If you have a Mac, a pop-up will appear trying to set up a keyboard. Just exit out of this pop-up. If the pop-up doesn't appear then just continue to the next step.
A Macintosh "Keyboard Setup Assistant" dialog box that has opened over the Event Attendance window. The title bar of the dialog box is highlighted, and the cursor is hovering over the button to close it.
3.) On your event page, click on the red 'Advanced Options' button near the top of the page.
An individual event page in Event Attendance. The "Advanced Options" button near the top of the page is highlighted.
4.) From the drop down menu, click the green 'Enable Card Scanner' button.
An individual event page in Event Attendance. The advanced options for the event have been maximized, and the "Enable Card Scanner" button is highlighted.
5.)  You can now start scanning i-cards to take attendance. You should see the netIDs appear under 'Event Attendees' with a green checkmark on the right side. 
An individual event page in Event Attendance. The ability to scan i-cards has been activated, and the dialog indicating this fact is highlighted. An arrow points to a newly-scanned attendee in the list of attendees.
6.) If at any point you want to stop using the card scanner, click on 'Advanced Options' and then the gray 'Disable Card Scanner' button. 
An individual event page in Event Settings, after the ability to scan i-cards has been activated. An arrow points to dialog that states this fact. The list of event attendees is highlighted.
See more tutorials for Event Attendance here: 

Keywords:
ATLAS, Event Attendance, card, scanner, attendance, event, app, application 
Doc ID:
92316
Owned by:
Beckett A. in University of Illinois LAS
Created:
2019-06-10
Updated:
2024-09-19
Sites:
University of Illinois Liberal Arts and Sciences