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Setting up an attendance rule for credit calculations

You can set the system to deny credit to a student whose attendance record is substandard; for example, to ensure that a student who was absent from a class over 50% of the time does not get credit for that class. A District Administrator can set up such an attendance rule for all schools in the district, or a School Administrator for a single school.

For the purpose of this rule, Chancery SMS:

= Uses class attendance [>>], not daily attendance.
= Uses attendance type [>>], not attendance values.
= Counts unexcused absences, not excused absences.
= Considers the start date as the first day after the last credit awarding period and the end date as the last day of the credit awarding period [>>].
= Considers a credit awarding period as one that contains a credit awarding grade item [>>].

For example, a school has four quarters or grading periods. Q2 collects a Semester 1 grade that is credit-awarding, and Q4 collects a Semester 2 grade that is credit-awarding. Attendance is evaluated for the Semester 1 grade from the first day of school to the last day of Q2, and attendance is evaluated for the Semester 2 grade from the first day of Q3 to the last day of Q4.

To set up an attendance rule for credit calculations [SA, DA]:

Table 32: Permissions pertaining to attendance rules for credit calculations

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Set up attendance rules for credit calculations at the district

District > Attendance Rules for Credit Calculations

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Set up attendance rules for credit calculations at the school

School Setup > Attendance Rules for Credit Calculations

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