take attendance

idiom

: make a record of who is present
The teacher takes attendance every day.

Examples of take attendance in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Analysis: Amazon managers should manage more, take attendance less In response, employees are either grudgingly complying with badge-swipe quotas while putting in the bare minimum of face time or offering their skills to more flex-friendly employers. Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023 But a lot of teachers, Nugent said, have been using the policy to take attendance, adding that students are not being sent to the principal for not having their phones in the caddy but instead are marked absent. Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023 No need to take attendance: several generations of film lovers will likely tune into this one. Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022 In recent years, Chinese schools have experimented with headbands that monitor children’s brain-wave activity and concentration levels, student uniforms with location-tracking capabilities and kindergarten robots that take attendance, teach and analyze student behavior. Liza Lin, WSJ, 31 May 2021 Chasen came up with the idea to create Class for Zoom, a classroom-like experience that would allow teachers to take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz, grade work, or talk one-on-one with a student—all on Zoom. David Sawatzky, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2021 At the elementary level, both the homeroom and math teachers will take attendance, while all four of a secondary student’s teachers will take period attendance for the live instruction. Jacob Calvin Meyer, baltimoresun.com, 11 Sep. 2020 Systems that teachers use to post lessons and take attendance also went down. Jason Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022 Japikse suggested that bus drivers take attendance. Beth Mlady, cleveland, 10 May 2021

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“Take attendance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20attendance. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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