Attendance and Roster Verification
The administration of federal financial student aid under Title IV of the Higher Education Act requires universities to determine whether or not financial aid must be returned for Title IV recipients who withdraw (officially or unofficially) during the term. Proper calculation for the return of Title IV funds is dependent upon verifying attendance in academically related activities. Attendance under Title IV regulations is defined more broadly than physically attending a class and must be verified independent of an instructor’s individual course attendance policy. That is, even if an instructor does not require students to physically attend class, active participation in the course must be verified.
Attendance verification begins immediately after the drop/add period. Instructors are required to verify that all students on their official roster (as shown in CobraStop) are attending/participating in the course. Students that have never attended/participated by this point of the course will be dropped from the roster and cannot be added back to the course. Coker is not an attendance taking institution.