I just started using blackbaud SIS and education and we started this process by implementing the LMS eventually we will get scheduling functional but it will take time. I learned that Attendance needs scheduling to work. My idea is that attendance should have an option to record it with or without scheduling. It's going to take a while to move into scheduling but in the meantime I would like to use attendance.
Yes, we had to schedule a homeroom for every class so that we could use attendance. It would be nice to just say a student was present for the day without having to have it tied to a schedule.