Marking attendance

Marking

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

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

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 the day and save it again. 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.

Backdating

Whether you can mark a past date, and how far back, is your school's setting. If a date is closed to you, the office can still mark it.