Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Time Pressure; Distraction; Workload
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Software and Automation
Just received a message stating I did not complete [the] COVID assessment for yesterday.  I believe I just forgot to send it due to flight deck distraction with maintenance in there.I arrived at the aircraft and Maintenance was still on it completing their First Flight of the Day (FFOD) check so I had to wait and work around them in the flight deck. I did pre-flight the thermometer and take my temperature and all was OK. But with the mechanic in the flight deck and the FO and Forward FA it was a little busy. I thought I had submitted on the COVID digital assessment; but I must have forgotten and when I got it my seat I continued with my set up believing I had done it. I must have forgotten to submit.For now add it onto the checklist as a FFOD item.  Or send us an ACARS message on our first flight. Maybe just have us when we check in on every leg to attest our fitness for duty that that counts as a COVID check.   I think there are solutions to this COVID affirmation than just pulling up the COVID assessment.   If we are not fit for duty for these reasons we should not be reporting to work anyway.  I think scanning the barcode every leg is a much better way for pilots to confirm COVID compliance without adding an extra step which can; by accident; be forgotten to [be] taken.
Air carrier Captain reported forgetting to complete the COVID-19 assessment before the flight due to a distraction.