Use the school calendar
Set daily or AM/PM registration against the cohort, school weekdays, closures, extra dates and timezone.
Every school day accounted for. Every summary explained.
Start with a clear record of the school day. Take daily or morning and afternoon registration, follow the pupils who need attention and carry a checked attendance summary into reporting.
A dependable routine for the start of the day
Set daily or AM/PM registration against the cohort, school weekdays, closures, extra dates and timezone.
Record present, late, authorised absence, unauthorised absence or excused, with unmarked pupils still visible.
Choose school registration, scheduled lesson attendance or omission for the reporting cycle, then review completeness.
Explore reporting cyclesA useful summary starts with a complete register
Review the attendance calculation for each pupil in the reporting period, including expected sessions and the records still needing attention. The selected basis gives the figure its meaning.
Two useful views of attendance
Give each attendance record the context it needs before choosing which basis belongs in the academic report.
Use the cohort’s calendar to take a daily register or separate AM and PM sessions.
Use the scheduled class register to record participation in a particular teaching session.
For your team
Keep the calendar dependable.
Configure the cohort’s registration pattern and review the school sessions in your permitted campus scope.
Take the register with context.
Mark the assigned school register, review exceptions and record a reason for corrections.
Use a figure you can explain.
Select the reporting basis and check attendance completeness before it becomes part of a report edition.
Understanding the attendance figure
See how calendar sessions, missing marks and the selected reporting basis shape the result.
Yes. A cohort calendar can use one daily session or separate AM and PM sessions. It also records school weekdays, coverage dates, closures, extra school dates and the relevant timezone.
An unmarked pupil remains incomplete. An expected registration slot with no captured register is also flagged as missing, giving staff a clear exception to resolve.
Yes. The reporting cycle selects school registration, lesson/session attendance or omission. Lesson attendance uses the cycle’s selected course links; lesson totals are not converted into school days.
The chosen excused rule determines whether an excused session counts as absence or is excluded from the denominator. Private operational notes stay outside reporting summaries, and issued report editions retain their own attendance snapshot.
Keep exploring
School registration & report attendance
Connect the daily school register with a reporting summary your team can check.