Marking attendance

Marking

Choose the section, mark each student, and save. Nothing is recorded until you save.

The screen shows whether today's register is done: Attendance marked, Not marked yet, or how many students are still unmarked. Until you save, the statuses on screen are only suggestions.

Some schools mark per period rather than per day; if yours does, choose the period too.

School hours

You can mark attendance during your school's hours, from the first bell to the last, plus a short allowance either side. Outside those hours the register is read-only, and the screen tells you when marking opens or when it closed, before you start. If you need a register filled in after hours, ask the office, which can mark at any time.

On the phone app, the time that counts is when you pressed Save, not when the phone next had signal. A register you take at 11:00 in a classroom with no signal is accepted when it sends at 13:00. If your phone's clock is wrong, the school's clock is used instead.

Families see it

Attendance is visible to guardians once saved. An absence may generate a notification to the guardian the same day, depending on what your school has configured.

That is worth knowing before you mark a whole class absent by accident: the message goes out.

Correcting a mistake

Correct today's register and save it again, during school hours. The record keeps both — what was marked and what it was changed to — because an attendance record has to be reconstructable later. You are not hiding the original by correcting it, and you are not expected to.

Past dates

You mark today's register only. Past dates open read-only, so you can check what was recorded, and future dates cannot be marked yet. To fix or fill in an earlier day, ask the office: it can mark and correct any date, and every correction records who made it.