Automate process of checking for students present in classroom

[sgeinitz]

The peer/collaborative quizzes are done in the classroom and only students present that day are eligible to be paired. Currently, the process of checking who is present in class is manually done by the instructor (by quickly going through a csv copy of the enrollment and marks students present with a 1, and those absent with a 0). The picaTA then opens this manually populated list and will generate pairs for only those present.

Ideally, this process is simplified for the instructor. Perhaps by presenting the students physically in the classroom with a code/keyword that they send/reply to a Canvas message with. The picaTA would then read these and generate pairings for only those students that replied with code/keyword.