A good way to make sure college students attend class?

Question

I know the trick of signing for someone else when an attendance sheet is passed around the room, but I really don't have time to call each person's name daily. (The class is about an hour long.) Anyone have any ideas about creative ways to take attendance?

Answer 1

Yes there is. My professor last year randomly called different names on whatever day he wanted to. Some days he went through the whole roll call list(on test days) and then other days he called out random names. But he warned us in the first few classes of course :) Good luck!