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We build the Portal to make it easier for schools to monitor attendance, identify students who need attendance support and track support participation. You can use the Portal to stay on top of students' attendance trends, and understand the full scope of attendance supports being provided at your school.

This article will provide an overview of the key attendance features available in the Portal. Happy exploring! As always, feel free to share your feedback at schoolsupport@newvisions.org.

Before diving into features, it may be helpful to know what attendance data is available in the Portal. We use these data to calculate students' YTD attendance, attendance for specific time periods - last 5, last 10, last 20 school days, for example - and trends by weekday.

The Dashboard highlights key attendance metrics such as YTD and daily attendance, and chronic absenteeism.

To access the Dashboard click Dashboard from the Left-side Navigation and scroll to the Attendance category to view all of the available Attendance Tiles.

Currently you can use these Dashboards to:

Click a Dashboard Tile to navigate to the Breakdown where you can apply filters and compare metrics across a variety of subgroups - by grade or class, ethnicity, special population status and more.

The Attendance List makes it easy to hone in on different periods of time such as attendance for the previous school day or attendance over the last 5 school days to quickly identify groups of students who may need attention.

To access the Attendance List click Attendance from the Left-side Navigation.

Currently you can use the List to:

Use the drop downs at the top of the page to configure your List by selecting a Focus (time period), Filter (group of students), and Grouping (way to group the students).

The Attendance Panel in the Student Profile brings together all of a student's attendance data points in a single screen. See a student's recent trends including absences over the last 5, 10, 20 days, and year-to-date, as well as trends by weekday and historical data for the past several school years.

To access the Student Profile, select the name of a student from any List or from the Data Grid.

The Portal makes it easy to create, manage, and assign students to Supports so you can monitor your school's range of services that are designed to improve student outcomes. You can create and assign supports for a group of students from any List or the Data Grid, as well as for a single student by navigating to the Supports Panel in the Student Profile. Learn more about the Portal's Support features here.

A key goal of the Portal is the make it easy for you to explore all of your data in one place. The Data Grid feature provides a spreadsheet like experience where you can explore over 500+ student-level data points.

Follow these steps to view attendance data alongside other data in the Data Grid:

Follow these steps to learn how to generate student attendance reports: