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Need Ability to Assign Attendance Types to Specific School Divisions Merged

Currently, the attendance types - absences, tardies, etc. - are universally accessible across school divisions.

Shortly after our start with ON, while we had configured absences and tardies that could be supplied by teachers as unexcused, our Middle School determined they didn't want to do this.  As a result, we had to create two additional attendance types just for the Middle School so that these would be marked as excused.  We now have these attendance types visible to our Upper School teachers and results in questions and confusion, as well as the potential for error.

It would be really helpful to be able to assign an attendance type to only the specific desired school divisions.  This would allow us to configure the desired attendance types accessible to teachers, and not potentially confuse teachers in other divisions for which an attendance type is not applicable.

Additionally, this would allow us to configure back-end attendance types for our Attendance Managers which were school-division specific as well.  This would have to take into account the filter applied on users with the Attendance Manager role.

I'm not sure if it would be necessary to assign attendance type categories to specific divisions, as this would require having multiple of the same attendance type, but I could see this as possibility as well.

  • Alex Orlebeke
  • Feb 7 2019
  • Daniel commented
    February 27, 2023 15:46
  • Daniel commented
    February 06, 2023 18:59

    Our 2 campuses have different student bodies with different policies, and making a change for one automatuically affects the other. The band-aid solution is to tell teachers from one campus to ignore options set for the other, but of course that's a bad solution. It would be even better if we could even assign attendance typed to specific school and/or grade levels.

  • Kathy Steinbrueck commented
    September 22, 2020 18:54

    There is a definite need for this. Our 2 campuses operate very differently and we need to be able to set up attendance categories based on their needs without them showing for the other campus.