How to take attendance (online)

You can take attendance for a lesson from several places.

• Calendar - Select the Calendar from the main menu, navigate to the lesson, select it, and select "take attendance" from the pop-up message. This will take you to the take attendance page.
• Classes - Select "classes" from the main menu, select the year and semester, and find the class from the list. If there is a lesson scheduled for today, the take attendance icon will be blue, and selecting it will take you to the take attendance page. If there is no lesson scheduled for today, the take attendance icon will be white, and selecting it will take you to the lessons list page.
• Lessons Page - Select the class, and then the menu Lessons. Find the lesson from the list and select the take attendance icon, which will take you to the take attendance page. The take attendance icons have the same color coding as the calendar. Select the color legend to expand it and see the meaning of each color.

Follow these steps to take attendance

Step 1: To take attendance, goto the take attendance page, as described above.

Step 2: Select one of the five attendance options. The status options are built-in and include present, late, absent, excused, and vacation.

• The page will automatically save your changes, and you do not need to select "Save". After each selection you make, you will see a save notification in the bottom-right corner.
• For more information on how the Attendance Statuses impact the student grade, see the related article.
• For more information on what Student Exemptions are, how to create them and how they impact the student's grade, see the related article.
• For more information on what Student Vacations are, how to create them and how they impact the student's grade, see the related article.
• If you don't see any students in the take attendance page, it usually means that there are no students enrolled in the class or that the class attendances can no longer be modified.
  • For more information see the related troubleshooting article regarding student enrollment.

Step 3: When finished taking attendance, you can select "Go back" to return to the lessons page.

Step 4: If all students are present, you can select "mark all." The mark all feature will not change any currently selected statuses, including previously entered exemptions and vacations. It will only mark empty statuses as present. The mark all button will then change to "clear all."

Step 5: To clear all attendances, select "clear all." Please note that exemptions or vacations that were created using the exemption feature in the student's profiles will not be deleted; only statuses marked here will be deleted, even ones marked as exemptions and vacations. The clear all button will then change back to "mark all."

Step 6: To clear a single attendance status, select the "x" by the student's name.

You can also take attendance from some of the reports, including the daily attendance report, the monthly attendance report, and the performance report. For more information on how to take attendance from within these reports, see the appropriate help tutorials in the reports section.