Day Attendance
Overview
Day Attendance pertains to elementary and middle school students and is taken on a daily basis. It is filtered based on students enrolled in a class for the quarter, as well as their assigned homeroom teacher.
To manage attendance, the following prerequisites are necessary:
- Assignment as the homeroom teacher for at least one student
- Permission to view and edit the Attendance screen.
High School Students need to have Class/Period Attendance taken. Please see this guide. Class Attendance Guide
Description and Pictures
- Access the Day Attendance screen by clicking Attendance in the navigation bar
- Attendance will default to viewing Attendance by Day. The user can navigate to the date picker to choose a new date or change the view of Attendance to Day or Week. The arrows allow the user to navigate back or forward in dates.
- User can take attendance by clicking the desired attendance code. The code will default to P = Present.
Fill attendance by doing one of the following:
- Click QuickFill icon to set the selected marking code for all students.
- Click on the cell next to student to complete individual attendance.
- User can also click on the cell next to a student to cycle through codes.
Comments
User can enter comments in the Day View & Week View
- Day View: The user enters comments in the comment box and select save.
- Week View: The user selects the + box to open the comment model, entered the comments and saves. Comments are visible by select the comment icon.
NOTE: You may set the code for AM and PM separately. The first time you choose either AM or PM cells, both cells are filled.
- Admin users who have all students will. be able to see the teacher dropdown to select a specific teacher to take attendance for.
- Default Codes in AE-Connect are:
- A = Absent
- Ax= Absent excused
- P = Present
- T = Tardy
- Tx = Tardy excused
Schools who would like additional codes please reach out to AE-Connect support.