Skip to main content
Required role: Owner or Admin. The Daily Digest, Marking Reminders, and Excusals settings require permission to update the organization.
Go to Settings → Attendance to control how your school takes and reports attendance. The page has four cards: Daily Digest, Marking Reminders, Excusals, and Attendance Statuses.

​
Attendance statuses

Statuses are the options teachers pick when they mark attendance. Each status belongs to one category, and the category decides how it counts in attendance statistics: Present, Excused Absence, or Unexcused Absence. New organizations start with these default statuses: Present, Late, Sick, Excused, Absent, and Early Leave. Default statuses show a Default badge and can’t be archived.

​
Add a status

1

Start a new status

Click Add Status at the top of the page.
2

Describe the status

Choose a Category, then enter a Label (for example, Sick Leave), a Short Code (for example, S), and a Color.
3

Set its behavior

Turn on any of the options under Behaviour, then click Add Code.
Requires Note makes teachers add a note when they pick the status on the Attendance page. See Take attendance. The status form also shows Notify Parent. It’s saved but doesn’t change behavior yet. Guardians get an absence email whenever a student is newly marked with an unexcused absence status, whatever Notify Parent is set to.
Drag statuses by their handle to change the order teachers see them in. To retire a status, open its menu and click Archive status. Archived statuses are hidden from marking, but existing records keep them. Click Show next to Archived Statuses and use Restore to bring one back.

​
Daily digest

The daily digest emails a summary of absent students to staff.
  1. Turn on Enable daily digest.
  2. Set the Send time. The time uses your organization’s timezone.
  3. Under Send to roles, select at least one of Super Admin, Owner, Admin, or Staff.
  4. Optionally add CC emails for people who should also receive it.
  5. Click Save.
To check the email, click Send Test, pick a Date, and click Send Now. Test sends go out immediately and skip the school-day check.

​
Marking reminders

Marking reminders email teachers whose classes have no attendance recorded yet for the day. Turn on Enable marking reminders, set the Send time, and click Save. Only the assigned teachers of unmarked classes get an email. Nothing is sent on non-school days or when every class is already marked.

​
Excusals

Parents can submit absence excusals from the parent portal. The Require staff review of parent excusals switch controls what happens next:
  • On — the excusal waits in the review queue under Attendance → Excusals. The student’s record changes to excused only after a staff member approves it.
  • Off — the excusal is applied to the student’s attendance immediately.
The switch saves as soon as you change it.

School calendar

Set school days so digests and reminders skip holidays.

Parent portal

Set up the portal parents use to submit excusals.