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Setting up an attendance rule for credit calculations

You can set the system to deny credit to a secondary 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, PowerSchool 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 39: Permissions pertaining to attendance rules for credit calculations

To	You need this permission	Set to	Details
Set up attendance rules for credit calculations at the district	District > Attendance Rules for Credit Calculations	Delete	[>>]
Set up attendance rules for credit calculations at the school	School Setup > Attendance Rules for Credit Calculations	Delete	[>>]

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