Taking attendance for events are saved in the Module Group and on the student profile. Therefore, when saving the attendance for a specific event, it will also show the overview of all events and the attendance outcome under the Module Group > Attendance and on the Student Profile page > Student > Attendance.
The attendance taken for the group of students displayed is the same group that was allocated to the Module Group you are working in. Therefore, when creating an event, it uses the Module Group also.
Note: Attendance can only be taken after the event has started.
Tip: If you have most of the students in the classroom, use the Toggle All to mark them all as attended and scroll down to the 1 or 2 students that is not there and mark them as not attended
The orange (bed) picture on the right can be used to capture additional notes on absenteeism. To do this, click on the picture. Another window will appear.
Here you can select the start and end date for the record
Tick the box All Day if the student was absent for the entire day. This will override all events attendance for this specific student
Select the start and end time
Select the Reason from the drop down list
Add Notes if needed
Click on Save to save the record
Green Present
When you mark the attendance as Present, the information will show in Green
Red Absent
When you mark the attendance as Absent, the information will show in Red
Black Not captured
The attendance will show in black when no attendance was captured for an event
Grey Future Date
You cannot capture attendance for any future date, therefore, all future events will show in grey
White Not Required
Only works for certain institutions
There is an additional tab in group attendance for other institutions.
With this additional tab you can select for a given event who from the group needs to attend.
Orange Condoned Absence
If you have made use of the "sick bed" picture to capture additional absent notes for a student, the attendance will show in orange
Blue Unavailable
If your Module Group Date is set to and events is created, for example, 12/03/2019 - 01/07/2019 and you have a student that registered, for example, 16/04/2019, all the events scheduled between 12/03/2019 - 15/05/2019 will show in blue as Unavailable.