School: Daily Attendance Dashboard

Read Only users or schools who are View Only on AdminPlus.com can access the Receive Attendance Approval Center to view what has been submitted. Although you can view, approving attendance and making changes to settings have been disabled.

Edit features are only available if the AdminPlus Supervisor has requested edit from apcom@rediker.com and has selected to edit Attendance in AdminPlus.com. Schools that use any combination of Scanning or Receive from File should continue to edit in classic until these features are added in AdminPlus.com.

Daily Attendance Dashboard
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Viewing Attendance For: Opens to today's date by default. Click Change Date to view/edit attendance for another date.
B
Add Date: Here you can Add a New Day to the calendar. For more information about this, see Add a Day to the Calendar.

Adding the date in classic Administrator's Plus is no longer an option when Edit is enabled for Attendance. However, you will need to continue to use classic Administrator's Plus to Delete a Day or Insert a Day into the calendar. This feature will be available in the future.

 C

Monthly Attendance View opens to the current month by default. Use the left or right arrows to view a different month. Toggle between Absences and Tardy to see the daily totals for the month.

D

Calendar displays the following:

  • First day in the Calendar
  • Last day in the Calendar
  • Number of Days in the Calendar

Click the expand icon  to open the Calendar.

E
Receive Attendance displays the counts for Homeroom attendance Submitted from TeacherPlus Gradebook, the number Approved for the day, and the number Not Submitted. Click on the expand icon to review and approve submitted attendance or view the Exception list.

Receive Attendance on the Daily Attendance Dashboard is the same as Approval Center Daily Attendance. The School > Daily Attendance dashboard is used to receive Daily Attendance from Teacher Plus, edit Daily Attendance, and view Daily Absent and Tardy totals.

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Edit Student Attendance displays the student totals for Absences, Tardy, and Dismissals for the selected date and indicates the trend. Red up arrow if the total is more than the last attendance day, Green down arrow if less, or Blue side to side arrow if the total is the same. Click the expand icon  to enter/edit student attendance. attendance.
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Edit Staff Attendance displays the number of Staff Absences for the day. Click the expand icon  to enter/edit staff attendance.
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Batch Entry: Student Daily Attendance allows you to view the last batch entry update. Select the expand icon to view Enter Student Daily Attendance. Select Batch Entry to batch enter attendance data. For more information on how to batch enter attendance, please see Batch Entry.
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Daily Attendance Bulletin allows a user to enter notes about the current day under Note 1 and Note 2. Select the gear icon  to update the settings. Select the expand icon  to view the Daily Attendance Bulletin. For more information about the daily attendance bulletin, see School: Daily Attendance Bulletin.
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Batch Entry: Staff Daily Attendance allows you to view the last batch entry update. Select the expand icon to view Enter Staff Daily Attendance. Select Batch Entry to batch enter attendance data. For more information on how to batch enter attendance, please see Batch Entry.
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Reports: Users can generate reports for Daily Attendance. The following reports can be run:
  • Day's Attendance: Generate a report with a list of students base on attendance search criteria for a selected date.
  • Search List: Generate a report with a list of students based on an attendance search for a selected date range.
  • Selected Students Attendance Counts and Details: Generate a list of selected students with attendance details for a date range. 

For more information about reports, see School: Daily Attendance Reports.

Period Attendance can be used to bring in Daily Attendance if the school does not use Homeroom sections for attendance.

In future the right side of the screen will be used to run Daily Attendance Reports.

Edit Attendance

To edit an existing attendance entry, or add a new entry, do the following:

The steps are the same for both Students and Staff. 

  1. In the Edit Student Attendance widget, click the expand icon  to enter/edit attendance.
  2. The Enter Student Daily Attendance Page opens. Any attendance previously entered or received from the Holding Bin will appear.
  3. See the Diagram and Table below for more information on Editing or Adding a new attendance entry.
    Edit Attendance
    A
    • Select Add Attendance Entries to add attendance data for a student.
    • Search for the student by Name or APID. On default Contains is selected when searching:
    • Check off Use Current Time if you would like the current time entered at the time the attendance entry is entered to be added. Click to manually enter a specific time.

      If a student arrives at 8:37, select 8:35 from the time picker,  highlight the number(s) you want to change, and type the correct time. This will update the time.

    • Select a code from the dropdown in Code 1.
    • Optional: Select a code from the dropdown in Code 2.

      If a code such as Tardy or Dismissed is selected for Code1 or Code 2, a default time of HR will be entered if Use Current Time is not selected. Click to manually enter a specific time.
      If a student arrives at 8:37, select 8:35 from the time picker,  highlight the number(s) you want to change, and type the correct time. This will update the time.

    • Optional: Add any comments about this attendance entry.
    • Select Save or Save and Add Another if more attendance needs to be entered.

    B
    Select Batch Entry to batch enter attendance data for students. See Batch Entry for more information. 
    C

    Quick Entry allows you to enter attendance by Student Name or Student ID. The same code and time will be entered for each student added. 

    To update the code and time entered for each student, select the gear icon . The Student Daily Attendance Settings window will open. The Attendance Code and the type of Student ID can be updated. The options for Student ID are:

    • APID
    • Unique ID
    • A No-Duplicate Demographic Field

    D

    Select Advanced Sort to select up to 3 levels of sort from the options for Grade, Code and Name.


    E

    To edit an existing entry, select Edit . The Edit Daily Attendance window opens. Here you can select a new code in Code 1, add an additional code in Code 2, and update the comments. To save your changes click Save.

    To delete and existing entry, select Delete .

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