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Attendance Manager override
In the past, as attendance manager (not a teacher), if I entered an absence for a full day, it would override existing entries by teachers. Suddenly, I am finding students with more absences in a day than classes in their schedule for that day, as...0
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Change the label of Absent Unexcused to just Absent on report cards.
Parents are upset that their absences are being labeled unexcused and we are continuously explaining the distinction between being absent (unexcused) and being absent for a funeral, school sports trip, etc (excused).0
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Add Attendance to Medical tab view
Our school nurse would be much more informed regarding a student's health if she could easily access "Attendance" information from the Medical tab. Perhaps a summary widget that includes attendance stats? She can quickly determine if the student h...0
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Gradebook Shows Accurate Attendance
Currently, the attendance icon in the Gradebook will show an A if a student is absent or late and does not differentiate between the two. We would like the icon to show an L for late, A for absent, etc.0
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Tracking or Reporting Cancelled Classes
I would like the ability to report on cancelled classes. We still have cancelled classes showing as attended i the attendance module and no way to know they are cancelled without going into the class attendance itself. This is not a time efficient...1
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Virtual Attendance to be shown under Parent's view of "Attendance Summary" > View details
Due to this Covid, we have number of students taking virtual classes. We do take attendance for these students but their attendance code type is virtual. Due to this, it is not showing on parents view under Attendance Summary > View details. It...1
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Display Daily Equivalent numbers on progress page for attendance
Currently, we take attendance daily based on more than one offering due to days that students are on field trips or such and there is no lunch period. But on the student progress page, it displays a double count of absences for the day instead of ...0
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Add a time column to the "Student Attendance"/"Section Attendance" page
Our students attend English twice a day, and the class has the same name so it is hard to tell which period is which. Having the time column (like is in the "Class Attendance" tab) would make it much easier to update period attendance0
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Attendance Manager: Schedule Repeating Attendance (or during Event/Game schedule)
While Athletic Attendance also allows the Schedule Manager to apply an absence/ time to an entire team at once, it would also be useful to be able to add multiple times at once. This could be done by allowing the attendance manager to select: The...3
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Option to have 5 tardies = 1 absence in attendance.
Our student handbook states that 5 tardies = 1 absence. Currently, there is not a way to set this up in attendance in Blackbaud SIS, but I would like to see this feature added in the future.0