How to Create Late Arrival / Early Leaving Reasons for your Students
Instead of using the reasons and attendance codes imported from your MIS, you can create your own custom reasons. Custom reasons allow you to simplify the options available when recording a student arriving late or leaving early.
To create custom reasons and link them to attendance codes, follow the steps below:
On your dashboard, navigate to Configuration > Settings
Click Students
Select Reasons / Writeback in the top bar
Select Custom Reasons with Default MIS Code
Enter the custom reason and select an attendance code
Select the reason type
Click Add Reason
Can i set my reasons to not writeback?
When creating custom reasons, you can set the attached code to Don’t Writeback. This ensures that the existing mark in your MIS is not overwritten.
To set your reasons to not writeback, follow the steps below:
On your dashboard, navigate to Configuration > Settings
Select Students
Select Reasons / Writeback in the top bar
Enter Reason and select the Default Code as
Enter your Reason Type
Click Add Reason
How to Create Time Based Codes
Time Based Codes allow you to define which attendance code is written back to your MIS at specific times. This means a single reason can write back different codes, depending on the time recorded.
To create time-based codes, follow the steps below:
On your dashboard, navigate to Configuration > Settings
Select Students
Select Reasons / Writeback in the top bar
Enter Reason
Tick Time Based Code
Click Add Code
Select code and set time
Click Confirm
How to Add Late Arrival / Early Leave Questions?
When students arrive late or leave early, you can add questions for them to answer as a part of their check in/check out process. To do this, follow the steps below:
Late Arrival Questions
To add or create a Late Arrival Question for students, follow the steps below:
On your dashboard, navigate to Configuration > Settings
Select Students
Select the Late Arrival & Early Leave Tab
Click Late Arrival Questions
Either tick the question you wish to add or click Create New to create a new one and click Add ... Selected
Early Leave Questions
To add or create an Early Leave Question for students, follow the steps below:
On your dashboard, navigate to Configuration > Settings
Select Students
Select the Late Arrival & Early Leave Tab
Click Early Leave Questions
Either tick the question you wish to add or click Create New to create a new one and click Add ... Selected
