Aug 25 · Class 1297 answers · question typed 203 ways
What are you most excited about and what are you most nervous about?
Keyword themes. One answer can count in several.
BITM330 Fall 2026: what the attendance form shows
2,436 form submissions across 8 class sessions, Aug 25 to Sep 29, 2026. Generated September 30, 2026. No student text is reproduced.
1. Submissions per session
310 submissions on day one, a peak of 320 on Sep 1, and 283 by Sep 29: down 12% from the peak. Class numbers 6, 8, 10 have no session of their own in this log.
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Aug 25Class 1
318
Aug 27Class 2
320
Sep 1Class 3
302
Sep 3Class 4
294
Sep 8Class 5
291
Sep 15Class 7
297
Sep 22Class 9
283
Sep 29Class 11
2. Attendance status
Almost every submission says present. The form is filled in by students who are in the room, so the absent count is a handful of self-reports, not an absence rate.
2,408Present · 98.9%
14Partially present · 0.6%
14Absent · 0.6%
| Session | Class # | Submissions | Present | Partial | Absent | % present |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25 | 1 | 310 | 309 | 1 | 0 | 99.7% |
| Aug 27 | 2 | 318 | 312 | 1 | 5 | 98.1% |
| Sep 1 | 3 | 320 | 316 | 3 | 1 | 98.8% |
| Sep 3 | 4 | 302 | 296 | 1 | 5 | 98.0% |
| Sep 8 | 5 | 294 | 290 | 3 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Sep 15 | 7 | 291 | 287 | 3 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Sep 22 | 9 | 297 | 296 | 0 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Sep 29 | 11 | 283 | 281 | 2 | 0 | 99.3% |
3. Class questions and what students answered
One question per session, typed in by each student. Answers are reduced to keyword themes, and each bar counts the answers that touched that theme.
Aug 27 · Class 2309 answers · question typed 169 ways
Which questions does your grading database need to answer?
Keyword themes. One answer can count in several.
Sep 1 · Class 3315 answers · question typed 97 ways
How do you use AI?
Keyword themes. One answer can count in several.
Sep 3 · Class 4294 answers · question typed 134 ways
What skills do you need to manage information systems?
Keyword themes. One answer can count in several.
Sep 8 · Class 5291 answers · question typed 142 ways
How are you doing the readings, when do you usually complete them, and how do you prepare for lab?
Keyword themes. One answer can count in several.
Sep 15 · Class 7288 answers · question typed 120 ways
What does a DBMS do that a spreadsheet usually cannot enforce?
Keyword themes. One answer can count in several.
Sep 22 · Class 9295 answers · question typed 77 ways
3 advantages of SQL
Keyword themes. One answer can count in several.
Sep 29 · Class 11283 answers · question typed 196 ways
Will you do the practice test before Tuesday?
Each answer is counted once.
4. Why students said they missed class
14 submissions gave a reason. They are grouped into categories and shown as counts only.
5. Data quality: what an agent catches in 30 seconds
The form uses free-text fields for values that should be picked from a list. Most issues below follow from that, and most can be fixed in the form itself.
| Issue | Rows | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Class number disagrees with the date | 203 | Rows where the class number typed does not match the number most students gave for that date. |
| Impossible or off-schedule dates | 21 | Dates that are not one of the 8 class sessions, with years from 2003 to 3026. |
| Timestamp date differs from Date of Class | 39 | The form was submitted on a different day than the class date entered: late submissions plus the date typos above. |
| Spelling variants of the class question | 1,144 | Distinct spellings for 8 real questions. Within one session the same question was typed 77 to 203 different ways. |
| Blank question or blank answer | 142 | 97 rows with no question and 45 with no answer. |
| Spreadsheet formula artifacts (#NAME?) | 4 | Answers replaced by a spreadsheet error value, which usually happens when text starts with = or -. The original text is lost. |
| Schema drift: seating and participation columns | 288 | These columns are filled almost only on Sep 29 (283 of 288 rows), so they describe one session, not the term. |
| Exact duplicate submissions | 1 | Same timestamp, question, and answer submitted more than once. |