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Setting an attendance method

The attendance method determines how often attendance is taken each day and how it is tallied. At a school, you can set up one of three methods for taking attendance:

Caution: Once you set up the attendance-taking method for a school, and schedules have been created or attendance has been taken [>>], you can change the attendance method only if you first clear attendance [>>].

To set the attendance method for a school [You can do this if your role is School Administrator.SA]:

1

On the home page, in the control bar under ADMIN, click School Setup. The School Setup page appears.

2

Under School, click General Settings. The General Settings page appears.

3

Under Attendance General Settings, select the check box of the attendance method you want to use: Once daily, Twice daily, or By class.

4

Click OK.

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After changing the attendance method, we recommend that you run the overnight task POPULATE_TRACK_DATE_HR_ATT. .

Note: For any attendance-taking method, you can specify the assumed attendance, that is, the default attendance code [>>].

Table 27: Permissions pertaining to attendance method setup

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