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Parent App - Attendance

Monitor Attendance and submit Absences

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Attendance for the app

On the Attendance page you can:

  • Monitor attendance by year, month, day, lesson and by subject
  • Submit a past or future absence to the school
  • View pending attendance requests you have with the school

To get to Attendance page, select the 3 bars at the left of the page>your Student's name  from the 'Your Students' dropdown and then click 'Attendance'. From here, it is the same as the browser page just resized.

Attendance for Browser

To get to Attendance page, select your child's name from the parent dashboard or from the 'Your Children' dropdown and then click 'Learn more' under Attendance.

*If you get an error message when you try to access Attendance saying that this feature is not available, it means that your school has not turned on the feature that allows parents access to view attendance data and codes. Please contact your school if this is the case. 

Monitoring your child's attendance

 

On the main attendance page, you will see an overview of attendance for the academic year so far. If your child has been late or absent without providing a reason, this will appear as a notification on this screen, more on that later. You can also select the academic year so you can go to past years and look into their old attendance records.

 

Scroll further down the screen to see a month by month overview which will show the latest three month's attendance.

  • To dig further, choose a month and select details. where you will see an overview for that month, as well as a list of each individual day and the related attendance mark. This can be filtered using the tabs 'All, Present, Absent, Partial' at the top of the screen.

  • To dig even further again, choose a date and click details. This will give you a lesson by lesson breakdown of attendance on that particular date.
  • Back on the child's attendance page, you will also see the Absence Request history where you can also go to submit an absence.
  • At the bottom of the main attendance page, you can view attendance per subject. Click details to get some detailed visualisations as well as lists according to subject.  

 

Submit Absence Feature 

To learn about how you can submit a future or past absence to the school via your account, click here. Please note that if you do not have access to this feature, it is because your school has not enabled it.