What is the Distance Learning Attendance Feature?

The Distance Learning Attendance Feature is built to meet the needs of the remote teaching and learning climate that we have transitioned into. This feature allows parents to submit their children’s attendance while they are studying from home. Once parents submit their attendance, it will appear on the teacher's attendance page. This creates a record of attendance once the teacher confirms it. Ultimately, this allows attendance to be prefilled by parents while the teacher retains the ability to make final adjustments should they be required.


Step 1) Set a Cutoff Time 

The school’s administrator should set a cutoff time. This is the time by which parents are required to have submitted their children’s attendance, ie: 10 am.

You can set the cutoff time from Administration then School Settings.

On this page, under the Content heading, you can see a Distance Learning Attendance cutoff time option. The system will not allow parents to submit the attendance after the cutoff time and only lets them submit attendance for the current day.


Step 2) Confirm Attendance on the Attendance Page 

Once parents have submitted their attendance, teachers will be able to see those marks in their attendance screen (although they are not officially recorded and won’t contribute to any reports/totals until confirmed by a teacher). As a teacher, you can edit or change the attendance submitted by parents or just confirm it. Attendance that has been submitted by parents will have the parent’s name attached to it in the day view and in logs.