Assigning attendance to various students at once

You can assign the same attendance code for a day to a selection of students, even students from different rosters. How you do so depends on the attendance method method [>>] employed by the school.

In a school that employs the By-class method, to assign attendance to several students at once:

You can do this if your role is Teacher, School Secretary, or School Administrator.[T, SS, SA]

Generate a list of students [>>]. Select the students. In the Actions menu click Mass Attendance. The Mass Attendance page appears.

Or, on a class roster [>>], select students and in the Actions menu click Assign Attendance.

Use Start and End to set the date range.

Note: A Teacher can only set this date range to the current date.

For Assign to, select one of the following:

"Daily Attendance"

"All Periods"

"Selected Periods": PowerSchool SMS displays the possible periods in the Available column. Select one or more periods by moving them from the Available column to the Selected column.

Select an Attendance code, which will apply to all of the selected students.

Click OK.

In a school that employs the once-daily method, to assign attendance to several students at once:

You can do this if your role is Teacher, School Secretary, or School Administrator.[T, SS, SA]

Generate a list of students [>>]. Select the students. In the Actions menu click Mass Attendance. The Mass Attendance page appears.

Or, on a class roster [>>], select students and in the Actions menu click Assign Attendance.

Use Start and End to set the date range.

Note: A Teacher can only set this date range to the current date.

For Assign to, select one of the following:

"Class Attendance": If you make this choice, for To select "All Periods" or "Selected Periods." If the latter, then PowerSchool SMS displays the possible periods in the Available column. Select one or more periods by moving them from the Available column to the Selected column.

"Homeroom Attendance": If you make this choice, for To select "Full Day", "AM Only", or "PM Only".

Select an Attendance code, which will apply to all of the selected students.

Click OK.

In a school that employs the twice-daily method, to assign attendance to several students at once:

You can do this if your role is Teacher, School Secretary, or School Administrator.[T, SS, SA]

Generate a list of students [>>]. Select the students. In the Actions menu click Mass Attendance. The Mass Attendance page appears.

Or, on a class roster [>>], select students and in the Actions menu click Assign Attendance.

Use Start and End to set the date range.

Note: A Teacher can only set this date range to the current date.

For Assign to, select one of the following:

"Class Attendance": If you make this choice, for To select "All Periods" or "Selected Periods." If the latter, then SMS displays the possible periods in the Available column. Select one or more periods by moving them from the Available column to the Selected column.

"Homeroom Attendance": If you make this choice, for To select "Full Day", "AM Only", or "PM Only".

"Daily Attendance"

Select an Attendance code, which will apply to all of the selected students.

Click OK.