Automatically Timestamp When a Student's Attendance is Changed from Absent to Tardy

This would be very useful for when a student comes in late and has their attendance type changed from absent to tardy so that we could better track and account for our students.

  • Mike Lyons
  • Feb 3 2016
  • Planned
  • Mar 24, 2025

    Admin response

    Hello all! We are exploring surfacing the audit history of attendance entries and we have two questions we'd love input on:

    1. Who would typically need to see this information?

    2. Where (what screen or modal) would you expect to be able to see the information on?

    Thanks so much!

    Jacqueline
    SIS Senior Product Manager

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  • Mitch We commented
    9 Apr, 2025 04:27pm
    1. Database manager because the absent and tardy relates to infraction for tardy and absent at our school. Also the school admin needs to see it if they need to assessed or not for parent meeting for excessive tardy or absences.

    2. We should see this somewhere in academic tab maybe under communication.

  • Japhet Coe commented
    2 Apr, 2025 02:26pm

    Forwarded from the parties involved in the original issue.

  • Julianne Hake commented
    31 Mar, 2025 04:50pm

    Hi - in our world, I'm the office admin and attendance manager and create reports about student attendance events - not just absent and tardy, but who arrived late, who often arrives late, who left early for appointments, etc. Because there are many student who have more than one attendance event in a day and we capture that info and provide administration reports on it, it all has to be done manually in Excel, AFTER exporting the Blackbaud report. This defeats the purpose of having a pre-crafted report, since it will never be accurate without my manual tweaking. As to the modal/screen this would be in - it should I think be a separate report that can capture at least who had changed entries. In addition, if there was a way to create a duplicate record in the student Attendance view on the dashboard, so a 2nd entry was allowed for a student, that would be helpful.

  • Guest commented
    31 Mar, 2025 01:44pm

    Who would need to see this information:

    • Attendance manager

    • Teachers

    • Parents

    • Advisor

    • Nurse

    • Everyone who can see attendance


    Where would you expect to see the information:

    • Everywhere attednance is currently visisble

    • Attendance Summary

    • Attendance Dashboard

    • Reports

  • Josh Seeger commented
    27 Mar, 2025 04:15pm

    I think the list from Erin Caprielian looks pretty comprehensive. I support making this a reportable field that can be pulled into Sky Lists and Advanced Lists.

  • Melissa Battis commented
    27 Mar, 2025 12:12pm
    1. Attendance manager, administrative roles (but we could add Attendance Manager as part of their role). I also like the idea that others have of it being able to be seen by advisors (and parents?)


    2. The list that Erin Caprielian has looks comprehensive and well thought out. I support that list!

  • Neil MacDonald commented
    26 Mar, 2025 04:11pm

    Teachers, homeroom advisors, attendance managers, assistant principals and principals.

  • Erin Caprielian commented
    24 Mar, 2025 06:16pm

    In addition to viewing the timestamp, it needs to be a reportable field that can be pulled into Sky Lists and Advanced Lists.

    1.

    • Attendance Manager

    • Attendance Editor

    • Advisor

    • Nurse

    • anyone who has permission to run Attendance reports

    2.

    • Academics > Attendance > Class attendance > add as a column

    • Academics > Attendance > Student Attendance > add as a column

    • Academics > Attendance > Day attendance > add as a column

    • Academics > Attendance > Student attendance statuses > lsit as a line under the Status text

    • Reports > Attendance > Absence Analysis > Absence Audit History (include User ID for student, name, "From" status, "To" status, timestamp, and Changed By User ID and name)

    • Student Profile > Progress > Attendance Summary > area where date is expanded to show detail

    • Student Profile > Progress > Attendance Summary > Work with attendance entries > Today's Schedule

  • Melissa Gruenthal commented
    24 Mar, 2025 05:54pm

    In response to Shannon:

    I think the bare minumum, (b) Attendance Managers and (e) Advisors need to be able to see the information.

    This information should be present on (a) Student Profiles under Attendance Summary and the (b) Attendance Dashboard so attendance managers can see any changes made throughout the day. I personally don't think that showing the change on Reports is entirely necessary, as long as the Reports default to the most recent edit of the attendance.

  • Shannon Crews commented
    24 Mar, 2025 05:23pm
    1. Who would typically need to see this information?

      1. Dean of Students

      2. Attendance Manager

      3. Nurse

      4. Academic Dean

      5. Advisor

    2. Where (what screen or modal) would you expect to be able to see the information on?

      1. Student's Profile under Attendance Summary

      2. Attendance Dashboard

      3. Reports

  • lauren marcus eisenberg commented
    5 Mar, 2024 04:13pm

    We would like this to include an audit log: who made the change and when?

  • Guest commented
    12 Aug, 2021 08:10pm

    This is helpful to know for school trips too. If you bulk added attendence and then a student left early it would be helpful to know when, at what time, and for what reason.

  • Heather Ganio commented
    11 Aug, 2021 06:18pm

    PLEASE Add This

  • Amy Sanga commented
    4 Aug, 2020 08:35pm

    Time stamps would make a huge difference for teachers to know when students have arrived to school, especially when they are taking class attendance.

  • Rick Geyer commented
    26 Nov, 2018 05:03pm

    An attendance change audit log is really what we're after, but this would help immensely.

  • Guest commented
    1 Sep, 2017 01:46pm

    Editable, please.

  • Gregg commented
    31 May, 2017 09:20pm

    This would be awesome in conjunction with this idea: https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OR-I-790

    Student comes in, scans his idea and attendance can be changed with an auto added time stamp.  

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