The classroom attendance entry page of jmc Teacher facilitates swift attendance recording by displaying the entire class and offering the option to view student photos, ensuring accurate attendance totals while promptly notifying parents about any unknown absences for further inquiry into the reason for the absence.
To enter classroom attendance to be sent to the office, log in to jmc Teacher and navigate to Classroom Attendance > Enter Attendance.
Step One: Select a date from the "Day" drop-down list to begin entering attendance.
Step Two: Select a class from the "Courses" drop-down list to access the class roster for a specific course.
Fun Fact: Courses and rosters may change from one day to the next according to the master schedule created in jmc Office.
Step Three (optional): If your school utilizes the student tag feature, select a tag using the "Tag" drop-down list to filter your class list by a defined tag set up in jmc Office.
Step Four (optional): Select a specific day from the "Days In Cycle" drop-down list to narrow the courses available in attendance if your school utilizes a block schedule with "A" and "B" days.
Step Five (optional): Select the current term from the "Term" drop-down list to filter courses and rosters available for a specific term.
Helpful Tip: Do you appear to be missing courses or students? Check the "Days In Cycle", "Term" and "Tag" drop-down lists to apply the correct filters for attendance.
Fun Fact: A student roster for the selected course will appear including student names and photos along with a blue "i" info button or orange "!" new comment alert button.
Click the blue "i" info button to view additional student information including contact information, teacher comments and health information.
Click the orange "!" button to view new comments associated with a student in jmc Office.
Step Six: Choose the appropriate attendance radio button from the "Attendance" column to mark a student's absence or tardy.
Pres: student is present
Abs E: student is absent excused
Abs U: student is absent unexcused
Tdy E: student is tardy excused
Tdy U: student is tardy unexcused
Helpful Tip: If a family has notified the office of an absence or tardy for their student, the corresponding "Attendance" radio button and "Reason" will be set.
Step Seven (optional): Select the appropriate reason from the "Reason" drop-down list if you know the reason the student is absent to keep the office in the know.
Fun Fact: If the "Reason" drop-down list is non-editable, the office has disabled the ability to change the reason.
Step Eight: Click the "Attendance is correct" button to record your attendance entries and submit them to the office for processing.
Helpful Tip: Head to the "General" box on the File > Preferences page and place a checkmark in the "Show student photos" checkbox to display student photos (if available) on the classroom attendance page.