Enter Period Attendance on Seating Chart

You can enter period attendance from the seating chart if this option was selected during the creation of the seating chart—but only if period attendance has been enabled in your school. If the option to enter or modify period attendance for prior days is enabled, then you can enter period attendance for a date prior to today's date up to that specified number of days. Absence type codes may display on the students’ desks if period attendance was already taken on the Period Attendance screen or previously entered by attendance staff.

If your school has enabled period attendance but the class or class group is not scheduled to meet that day, then “Not Scheduled” displays on the students’ desks, and you cannot enter attendance.

1.On the Class Dashboard, beside Period Attendance, click by Seating Chart.

2.On the Seating Chart screen, in the Seating Chart list, verify that the correct seating chart displays.

3.In the Date field, verify that today's date displays.

Note: Leaving the absence type blank indicates that the student is present.

4.In the list on each student's desk, select the appropriate absence type description or code.

Note: The available absence type codes are set up by your district's GradeBook system manager and may vary for each school.

Note: For districts that run live period attendance, if the attendance staff entered an absence type code in StudentInformation that has not been imported yet into GradeBook during the data integration process, “DASL code” displays in the Class Attendance list.

5.Click Save.

The absence types selected here also display on the Period Attendance screen; GradeBook Grid; the Student Profile screen Progress tab; and on the Period Attendance screen in ParentAccess.

Note: If your school has enabled period attendance by block, then the Take Attendance by Block link displays in the website banner. To enter period attendance by block, click Take Attendance by Block and enter period attendance on the Period Attendance screen.