Attendance Monitoring

Attendance is a key contributor to successful studies, and we want to help make sure you get the most out of your time at UAL, with studies showing that students who engage regularly with their course are more likely to do well.

We are working towards putting in place one method of capturing attendance across UAL, but in the meantime, there are three main ways that we do this, depending on where you are studying.

• If you're studying at the London College of Fashion at East Bank or Lime Grove, or in the Creative Computing Institute, then you need to self-check-in to sessions using the SEAtS phone app. From the summer term, the following courses will also pilot self-check-in using the SEAtS phone app: CCW BA Graphic Design, CCW BA Graphic Design Communications, CSM BA Ceramic Design, CSM Graduate Diploma Fashion, LCC BA Music Production, LCC PGCert Design for Visual Communications and LCC PGDip Design for Visual Communications.
• If you are studying at the London College of Communication or on the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design courses at Camberwell College of Arts and Central Saint Martins, then you need to self-check-in to sessions by tapping in with your student ID card to I’M IN readers located outside of rooms.
• If you are studying elsewhere, then class registers will be taken by your course teams, and you should follow their guidance locally.

For full details on our attendance policy, what happens if you miss sessions, authorised absences, time out, extenuating circumstances for absences that will have an impact on your assessments, withdrawals and attendance guidance for student visa holders, see UAL’s Attendance Policy.

Self-check-in with the SEAtS phone app

You need to check yourself in on your phone into learning and teaching events that your course team has told you to attend (both in-person and online). This will cut down the time spent on taking class registers.

Download the SEAtS mobile app for Android or iOS store, or scan the relevant QR code in the SEAtS user guide (PDF 682KB) or video, which gives full information on how to download and use the SEAtS app to check-in.

Once you have signed into the app it will display your learning and teaching classes for the day and you can check-in to these classes.

You should check in at the start of, or just before, the session starts. If you check in 10 minutes after the start time, you will be marked as late.

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