Who did/didn't do what & when?

You will generally be required to report on students' record of attendance and work for your course. No matter how small the group you are teaching, your memory of which meeting someone missed, or of whether a piece of work merited 50 or 60 percent, will not endure accurately for very long amidst lots more very similar information. However rushed you are, you should try always to make out some form of written record as term progresses: at or immediately after a class for attendance and oral presentations; and at the time that you mark written assignments.

It doesn't have to be complex, and you can usually keep it fairly informal from the students' viewpoint, just so long as it is clear to you (possibly in a couple of months time) and cumulative. Methods to try include:

Class attendance

Large classes, such as lab sessions, a fairly formal `register' may be easiest but you don't need to call out names -- get students to sign against their name on a class list, either a separate list for each meeting or a single cumulative list with lines for each meeting of the term

Seminars/tutorials, with fewer students, can usually be more informal -- keep a list of names/sessions with your course materials and mark attendance/absence yourself. Here's an example Any information a student provides about reasons for absence can be annotated to your list. While learning `who's who', you may have to count numbers and ask who's missing, but once you know names you can check this for yourself

Assignment submission

For written exercises or oral presentations, a cumulative record sheet like that for seminar/tutorial attendance can include space for comments on work quality and the mark awarded, in addition to its existence/absence. Best completed as marking for written work, during/immediately after a class for oral presentations

If using proformas for work feedback, you can keep copies for yourself as a record of comments on submitted work and marks awarded