{"id":730,"date":"2018-09-13T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=730"},"modified":"2018-09-27T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:30:21","slug":"watch-this-space-attendance-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/09\/13\/watch-this-space-attendance-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH THIS SPACE: ATTENDANCE MONITORING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace\">Will the attendance monitoring system &#8211; you know the one, where half of your seminar is wasted by students pointing their phones at a box in the corner of the ceiling trying to make it register their attendance &#8211; show any signs of improving? Who knows. But subtext also understands that some slightly uglier means of monitoring the attendance of international students has been making waves. We&#8217;ll reveal more on these developments come 2018-19. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/12\/big-brother-is-not-watching-you\/\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace\">http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/12\/big-brother-is-not-watching-you\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/11\/09\/big-brother-is-still-not-watching-you\/\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace\">http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/11\/09\/big-brother-is-still-not-watching-you\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the attendance monitoring system &#8211; you know the one, where half of your seminar is wasted by students pointing their phones at a box in the corner of the ceiling trying to make it register their attendance &#8211; show &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/09\/13\/watch-this-space-attendance-monitoring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103],"tags":[390,52],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-annual-review-2017-18","tag-attendance-monitoring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-bM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":170,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/11\/09\/big-brother-is-still-not-watching-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":730,"position":0},"title":"BIG BROTHER IS STILL NOT WATCHING YOU","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 9 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We are informed by the powers that be that there continues to be a number of unexpected teething problems with the new attendance monitoring system. 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