Teachers want the ability to decide what to flag. Gone are the days when teachers give out assignments at start of class for us, so showing tardy when assigned on an assignment put in for 2 weeks from now just is lacking common sense.

Hi Jackie,

While this has been updated for teachers in the gradebook, tardies are  still displaying for students/parents in their gradebook with the notes "Absent when due" or "Absent when assigned." They find this as misleading as teachers did. Is there a planned update for the parent/student views of assignment/gradebook?

Thanks,

Margie

Jackie, 

While I am glad there is now a distinction between tardy and absence, I still don't view this as solved. You still need to give schools the ability to define which attendance codes trigger the A and T. There are attendance entries that are set up as tardies but do not actually count as tardies. Those should not trigger the T. I would still like to see this as something that is configurable for each school.

I agree! The tardy is super confusing. Also when you put the time in for tardy it does not mean the student was absent for the entire class. Just late to class. 

Strange, to think that the gradebook is hard coded for absentees and not tardy.  And the only workaround is a comment to indicate that the student was tardy so the parents and student will know.  This needs to be changed to reflect the actual reason.  

Yes!  This does throw off the teachers and parents.  Tardy is definitely not an absent.

Here are two other ideas very similar to this one that should be merged into one:

https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1011

https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OR-I-1221

At the heart of the issue here, is that schools need choice as to how this feature works. As others have stated, displaying an "A" when the student was simply tardy to class is very misleading. I really like the idea of the feature, but until it is reconfigured it should be turned off.

Here is what I would like to see happen to make this feature awesome:

1. Schools should have the choice of whether to use this feature or not (toggle on and off in settings)

2. All attendance entries considered tardies should be EXCLUDED from displaying the "A." I don't know a school that gives extra time for an assignment just because a student was tardy.

3. Each absence type should have a toggle of whether this attendance particular type should utilize the "A" flag or not.

I would greatly appreciate this feature being addressed soon as it is causing a great amount of confusion and additional conversations with students and parents that could be avoided if it were more clear.

I agree with this!! I just voted for a similar issue posted by Nicole Farley!! Lets pull together!

Great idea.  I already had that problem this morning with a student who came in just a few minutes late.   

I agree wholeheartedly.  As it stands now, I have to enter a note stating that the student was tardy not absent and hope that the parent reads it.

Good; suggestion.

Great suggestion Billy! This would be a highly beneficial change to the current system.

Awesome.  Flabbergasted.  Haven't seen that word posted on forums in a while.

I agree!

I am flabbergasted to find that this would not already be a feature.