Class attendance

Teachers typically either:

• mark the roll in the morning and in the afternoon
• mark student attendances for each of the classes they take during the day.

So that class attendance is recorded, and depending on how your organisation does this, teachers can either:

• Send their class list of attendances to the office. The administration person then enters attendance data into Synergetic.
• Send their absence slips to the office for the Attendance Officer or administration person to enter into Synergetic.
• Enter the class attendances directly into Synergetic themselves. See Recording class attendances - Teachers.

Attendance Officer / Teacher modes
You can configure Synergetic to differentiate between the Attendance Officer and a teacher entering attendances into Synergetic. By default, the Attendance Officer/Teacher modes are turned off.
If this feature is turned on, two modes appear on the Attendance window:

• Attendance Officer
• Teacher.

When attendances are entered:

• centrally using the Attendance Officer mode, any reasons entered for absences are treated definitively by Synergetic
• by teachers using the Teacher mode, reasons entered for absences are treated as possibilities by Synergetic.

How to:
Use the Attendance window to:

• Search for existing attendance records. See Searching for attendance records.
• Record class attendances, if you are a teacher. See Recording class attendances - Teachers.
• Record class attendances, if you are an Attendance Officer. See Recording class attendances - Attendance Officers.
• Record multi-period class attendances. See Recording class attendances - multi-periods.
• Check for classes that have not had their attendances marked yet. See Checking for classes not yet marked.
• Correcting a present student's attendance record when they were inadvertently marked absent. See Correcting a present student's attendance.
• Reverse the earlier submission of attendance or nonattendance records. See Reversing a class attendance submission.

What you can do: