DIGITAL ATTENDANCE for Canvas LMS — live QR-code check-in, verified student identity, and attendance records stored directly in the Gradebook.

TRUE ATTENDANCE should not depend on paper lists, manual follow-up, or records that are easy to tamper with. VISIARC Attendance™ lets teachers create events in Canvas, present a live QR-code in class, and receive verified attendance records directly in the Gradebook. Students check in on their phones in seconds. Instructors and staff get structured data in one place, without a manual step.

Secure by design

Live QR-code and Canvas authentication reduce the common ways attendance is gamed — copied codes, proxy check-ins, and after-the-fact changes.

Swift in the room

Teachers launch attendance, students scan, and the session keeps moving. A hassle-free flow that keeps the focus on teaching and learning, not administration.

Verified in Canvas

Attendance is recorded where the course already lives, giving teachers, administrators, and management a shared record for review, export, and follow-up.

Product Sheet

The Attendance product sheet describes the product and provides an overview of what data is collected and how it is minimized.

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Stakeholder Benefits

Teachers: Take attendance without hassle. Create attendance, launch the live QR code, and keep the class moving. More time for teaching. No follow-up.

Students: Effortless check-in from their phone. Simple, swift, and hard to get wrong. No app. No surveillance.

Instructors and staff: Keep attendance records in the Gradebook, all in one place, with no paper handling or manual re-entry.

Administrators: Work from records that are structured, tamper-resistant, and ready for review, export, or inclusion in reports.

Management: See who actually showed up, follow up on absences, and base decisions on true attendance rather than incomplete and delayed paper trails.

DPOs: Data minimization by design. Verified attendance. Zero location data. Simplifies DPIA. Reduces regulatory risk.

Auditors: Machine-readable ledger in Canvas. Separates automated verified OAuth2 attendance data from manual overrides.

Regulators: Tamper-resistant audit trail (neither teachers nor students can modify). Satisfies statutory funding and visa sponsor metrics.

Developed with Chalmers since 2024 and tested in live teaching throughout 2025, now released as a hardened 1.0, and running at scale.

» The dynamic QR-based attendance taking is secure and hassle-free for our teachers. Verified attendance is stored directly in Canvas, exactly where we want it. I recommend moving away from manual paper-based solutions and investing in VISIARC Attendance for fast, verified attendance so that full focus can be on teaching and minimal administration. «

Hugo Landgren

Educational Developer

Chalmers University of Technology

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» We evaluated all attendance-taking products on the market, and tested the best matches. None met all our requirements. Either too complex and hard to use, not secure enough, or too easy to game. Then we found VISIARC Attendance just as we were about to build our own. It had what we were looking for, plus a couple of unique features that have proven really valuable for us. We are now running a pilot that we will expand during the school year. We like how easy and smooth it is for teachers, professors, and students. Result: no more faked attendance. Real attendance, straight into Canvas.«

Andreas Lindblom

Educational Support, IT Services

Stockholm School of Economics

DATA

Data minimization by design

The three documents below will assist your impact assessment. They are available on request. These are very helpful for your Data Protection Officer (DPO):

Data Addendum. Full data handling is documented in the VISIARC Attendance Data Addendum, alongside our general Privacy Policy.
Data Flow. Schematic data flowchart for Attendance.
Ready-to-adopt DPIA. A ready-to-adopt Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA), pre-populated and based on actual data flows for review, confirmation, and sign-off rather than starting from scratch.

Data residency

VISIARC hosts the Attendance LTI app in multiple regions. This means your data is hosted in your jurisdiction and does not cross borders.

Data retention

Data is subject to specific, defined retention periods, and data is deleted on schedule. The data addendum provides the detailed summary.

Very Hard to Game

VISIARC Attendance is an LTI 1.3 using OAuth 2.0 + OIDC. Altogether, this technology combination makes buddy-punching on the same device impossible. That means that check-ins are verified and true, the person that check in is in the room. If a student picks up multiple devices, or live-streams the QR code to relay it, the teacher will detect it. The QR code in itself is cryptographically secured. The attendance records are stored directly in Canvas LMS, where they belong and are hard to tamper with, especially as the log separates automated, verified OAuth2 attendance data from instructors' manual overrides. This is secure, and by design, it also minimizes the data required to be collected for verified, auditable attendance records.

No GPS Data. No geolocation. No Wifi data. No BSSID. No network mapping data. No device fingerprint. No hardware identity. No cellular data. No Bluetooth data. No iBeacon. No audio telemetry. No sound telemetry. No usage analytics. No behavioral tracking. No marketing identifiers.

We collect minimal data.

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