School: Period Attendance Dashboard

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• Edit Period Attendance

The Period Attendance Dashboard is used to receive Period Attendance from Teacher Plus, edit Period Attendance, and view Period Absent and Tardy totals.

Read Only users or schools who are View Only on AdminPlus.com can access the Receive Attendance Approval Center to view what has been submitted. Although you can view, approving attendance and making changes to settings have been disabled.

Edit features are only available if the AdminPlus Supervisor has requested edit from apcom@rediker.com and has selected to edit Attendance in AdminPlus.com. Schools that use Receive from File, and Scanning should continue to edit in classic until these features are added in AdminPlus.com. Period Attendance Batch Entry for a Course/Section has been added to Daily Attendance. 

Period Attendance Dashboard
A	Viewing Attendance For: opens to today's date be default. Click Change Date to view/edit attendance for another date. Rotation Day and the Rotation will be displayed below the date. If the rotation is not selected when a new day is added to the calendar, Rotation Day number for today "Date entered here", is not in the school calendar! will appear: If the rotation is missing for a past date, select Change Date. The Select Date window will open. In this window, you can view which calendar days may be missing a rotation. Select the day you would like to add a rotation to and click Ok. To add the rotation day, select Receive Attendance. The Select Rotation window will open. Select the rotation and click Continue.
B	Add Date: Here you can Add a New Day to the calendar. For more information on this, see Add a Day to the Calendar. Adding the date in classic Administrator's Plus is no longer an option when Edit is enabled for Attendance.
C	Monthly Attendance View opens to the current month by default.  Use the left or right arrows to view a different month.  Toggle between Absences and Tardy to see the selected period totals for the month.
D	Select Period to view the selected period's totals for the month.
E	Calendar displays the following: First day in the Calendar Last day in the Calendar Number of Days in the Calendar Click the expand icon  to open the Calendar.
F	Receive Attendance displays the count of sections that have Submitted from TeacherPlus Gradebook, the number Approved for the day, and the number Not Submitted. Click on the expand icon to review and approve submitted attendance or view the Exception List. Receive Attendance on the Period Attendance Dashboard is the same as the Approval Center Period Attendance.
G	Edit Student Attendance displays the period totals for Absences, Tardy, and Dismissals for the selected date.
H	Period Attendance Bulletin allows a user to enter notes about the current day under Note 1 and Note 2. Select  to update the settings.
I	Reports: Users can generate reports for Period Attendance. The following reports can be run: For more information about these Period Attendance Reports, please see: Day's Attendance: Generate a report with a list of students base on attendance criteria for each period for a selected date. Skip List - Absent in Some Classes: Generate a report for a list of students both present and absent for the selected date. For more information about running Period Attendance Reports, see School: Period Attendance Reports

Edit Period Attendance

To edit an existing attendance entry, or add a new entry, do the following:

The steps are the same for both Students and Staff. 

1. In the Edit Student Attendance widget, click the expand icon  to enter/edit attendance.
2. The Enter Student Period Attendance Page opens. Any attendance previously entered or received from the Approval Center will appear.
3. See the Diagram and Table below for more information on Editing or Adding a new attendance entry.
   

   Edit Attendance
   A	The current date will display. To select a different date, click on the calendar icon.
   B	The current days Rotation will display here.
   C	Select Add Attendance Entries to add attendance data for a student. Search for the student by Name or APID. On default Contains is selected when searching. When the student is pulled up, today’s Daily Attendance appears on the right of the Student Name box for reference. Select a code for each period for the selected student. To choose Batch Enter period attendance for the student, select . For more information about this see School: Period Attendance Batch Entry. Select Save or Save and Add Another if more attendance needs to be entered.
   D	Select Batch Entry to batch enter attendance data for students. See Period Attendance Batch Entry for a Single Student for more information.
   E	Period Attendance Preference: Users can choose to display Daily Attendance in the Enter Student Period Attendance Table. Select to view the Period Attendance Preference settings. Options to select are: Do not display Code 1 only Code 2 only Both Code 1 & Code 2
   F	To edit an existing entry, select Edit . The Edit Daily Attendance window opens. Here you can select a new code in Code 1, add an additional code in Code 2, and update the comments. To save your changes click Save. To delete and existing entry, select Delete .