Attendance for Faculty

Tip: Check out our video for a visual rundown of this feature.

Teachers can record attendance for their classes, advisory, or activity groups from Faculty, My Day, then Schedule & Performance. Your Attendance Manager can configure attendance to be recorded only once per day or during every period.

If a teacher has not taken attendance for a past date, they can still go back to that date and record attendance. However, teachers cannot take attendance for future dates.

Teachers can also create Seating Charts for taking attendance. For more information, see Seating Charts.

  1. From Faculty, select My Day and then Schedule & Performance.

  2. Under Schedule, find the class, advisory, or activity group on the date you're taking attendance for.

  3. Select Take Attendance or select the grid icon grid view icon to take attendance via Seating chart. If all students are present, you can select the down arrow next to Take Attendance and select All Present.

    Note: The grid icon only displays if the teacher has created a seating chart for the class.

  4. Use the drop down next to a student's name to change their attendance entry as needed. If an attendance field is left blank for a student, they are automatically marked "Present", "Attended class", or your school's equivalent attendance code.

  5. If you mark a student as anything other than "Present", "Attended Class", or the equivalent, you can enter an optional comment in the space provided.

  6. When you have finished entering attendance for all students, select Save & Close to submit your attendance record.

Once attendance is submitted, Take Attendance updates to View Attendance or Edit Attendance, based on attendance settings managed by your administrator.

Note: If an attendance entry needs to be updated after it is submitted, faculty who only have the option to View Attendance must contact the Attendance Manager to make the necessary changes.

Teachers can edit attendance entries after a class begins for a number of hours specified by the Attendance Manager.

  1. From Faculty, select My Day > Schedule & Performance.

  2. Under Schedule, find the class, advisory, or activity group on the date you need to edit attendance for.

  3. Select Edit Attendance.

    Note: If you can only select View Attendance, you must contact your Attendance Manager to update submitted attendance entries.

  4. Update the attendance entries as needed.

  5. Select Save & Close to submit the updated attendance.

To view attendance for a student in your class

  1. In Faculty, select Classes and choose your class.

  2. Select Roster.

  3. Select the context menu on the student's tile, then View profile.

  4. Select Progress.

  5. Review the Attendance Summary tile.

  6. Select an attendance excuse type to view details or select View History or View Totals to run attendance reports.

Attendance Reports

Teachers can run reports to review attendance for a class or a specific student.

Note: Report access is managed by your administrator.

The Attendance History - By Section report is run from a class Roster and can show attendance Totals by Student, a Summary by Student, or a Summary by Day.

The Attendance History - By Student report and Attendance Totals report are run from a student's profile.

  1. From Faculty, select Classes, then choose the class.

  2. Select Roster.

  3. Select Run Roster/Student Reports, then select Attendance History - By Section.

  4. Select the details to Show:

  • Totals by Student: For each student, display the total count by excuse type.

  • Summary by Student: For each student, display attendance date, excuse, and excuse type.

  • Summary by Day: For each date, display students with their excuse and excuse type.

  1. Select Generate Report.

  1. From Faculty, select Classes and choose a class.

  2. Select Roster.

  3. Locate the student on the roster and select the context menu , then select View profile.

  4. On the student's Progress tab, select View History under Attendance Summary.

  5. Select Generate Report.

  1. From Faculty, select Classes and choose a class.

  2. Select Roster.

  3. Locate the student on the roster and select the context menu , then select View profile.

  4. On the student's Progress tab, select View Totals under Attendance Summary.

  5. Select Generate Report.