“Attendance” is not a technical concept in LearningBuilder, it’s a term that is frequently used to describe a specific sort of use case.

Overview

In LearningBuilder, the term “Attendance” refers to records representing that a specific Practitioner has completed a specific learning activity, typically proctored by a Provider. Examples include attending a course, completing some computer based training, etc.

Technically speaking Attendance records are normal Activity Instances; the distinction is a business one, not a technical one.

The following are frequently associated with Attendance:

Activities are owned or created by Providers
Staff members of those Providers log into LearningBuilder (as themselves) and use the Provider area to work on their parent Provider’s data
When a Practitioner completes a learning activity, the Provider (or their staff) enters it through LearningBuilder on behalf of the Practitioner. These Activity Instances are considered “Provider verified” because they were entered by the Provider, not the Practitioner.

Ways of entering Attendance records

Method	Notes

Method

Notes

One-by-one manual entry via
Provider → Enter Attendance

Used by a Provider, or their Staff, to manually enter a single Attendance record (e.g. create a single Activity Instance).

Uses a fixed data form that is not configurable.

File upload using
Provider → Upload Attendance

Used by a Provider, or their Staff, to upload multiple Attendance records as a CSV file.

File upload using
Admin → Import Data

Used by an Administrator (not a Provider) to import Activity Instance data via the Workflow Import Queue.