School: Edit Student Attendance (Daily)

Modified on: Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM

The Enter Student Daily Attendance screen can be used to edit existing attendance entries or add a new entry. You can also access the Batch and Quick Entry options from this screen. You may also delete entries for the currently viewed date.

If you need to correct attendance entries from a previous date it can be done on this screen. Simply click on the Date (upper left) and choose a previous day. The entries appearing will be the attendance marks from the date chosen. You can then edit or delete attendance entries as needed.

Daily Attendance: Enter Students Daily Attendance

Steps to Edit Attendance

The steps are the same for both Students and Staff. Please note that before editing Student Attendance for today, you first need to have created the day on your calendar. Please see related article about Adding a Calendar Day.

On the Daily Attendance Screen (under School) in the Edit Student Attendance tile, click the navigate icon to navigate to the Enter Student Daily Attendance screen.

Please note, that if you have not created today on the calendar the Edit Student Attendance tile will be blank (no numbers) and a popup indicating that today is not in the calendar will appear.
On Enter Student Daily Attendance screen you will see any attendance previously entered or received from the TeacherPlus Gradebooks. If no attendance marks have been entered for the active date, it will be empty.
To Edit an existing entry on the screen, select the Edit Icon on the far left (in front of the Student entry), and an Edit window will appear allowing you to change the Attendance Code(s) and edit the Comments. Reference diagram and notes below.
To Add a new Attendance entry, click the Add Attendance Entries button. This will allow you search for a student, enter the Attendance code(s), and add a comment. See diagram and notes below. If you need to enter another student. Choose Save and Add Another.

For Batch and Quick Entry see related articles

School: Daily Attendance Batch Entry

School: Daily Attendance Quick Entry

Diagram and Notes

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. Select a code from the dropdown in Code 1. 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. To clear HR, click X, then use the time picker to select a time in 5-minute intervals or manually enter a specific time using a 3 or 4-digit number (no colon) then tab or click out of the box and the time will be "calculated" based on the number. For example, 837 will enter 08:37 AM. If a military time is entered like 1300 then the time will appear as 01:00 PM. Optional: Select a code from the dropdown in Code 2. 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, type of Student ID can and Tardy Slip Settings be updated. For more information see School: Daily Attendance Quick Entry
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 .