Marking Students Attendance
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24 steps
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3 minutes
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Marking Students Attendance as a Teacher
Note that to mark students attendance of a particular class, you must be assigned as the class/form teacher of that class.
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Sign in to your school portal as a class teacher.
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Scroll to the section of your dashboard that shows the list of you form classes.\ \ Click on the class you want to mark attendance of its students.
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Click "Mark Attendance"
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Select the date you want to mark attendance of.\ \ *Note that by default, you can only mark attendance of the current day.* \ *To mark attendance of a past date, you need to be assigned a special privilege by your portal super admin to be able to do that.*
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Click "Load"
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For each student in the class list loaded, click "Present" to mark the student present
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Click "Absent" to mark the student absent
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Click "On-permission" to mark the student on-permission
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Click "Late" to mark that the student came late
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You can use the "Mark all ..." buttons at the top to mark all students in the list to a specific attendance status
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Click "Save Attendance" to save the attendance marking
Marking Attendance as an Admin
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Sign in to your school portal as an admin.\ \ Click the "Attendance" menu-group
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Click "Students Attendance"
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Click "Mark Daily Attendance"
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Select the class, class arm, and date of the attendance you want to mark
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Click "Load"
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For each student, click any of "Present", "Absent", "On-Permission", or "Late" to mark the students attendance status for the date selected
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Click "Save Attendance" to save the marked attendance
Assigning Users The Privilege To Mark Attendance of Past Days (as a super-admin)
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Click the settings icon to access the system settings page
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Click "User Privileges"
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Use the "Search" field to search for "attendance" related privilege items
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Click the task named "Manage Students Attendance for Past Days"
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Use the switch buttons to enable this privilege for any user category you want to assign this privilege to mark attendance of past days
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Click "Done"
Note that generally, after assigning new privileges, the users will need to sign out and sign back-in to be able to pick up the newly assigned privileges.
