Attendance: How To Monitor the School's Class Attendance: The Attendance Monitor*
SchoolDESX provides a method for monitoring the school's Class, Student, and Home School Attendance for a particular day. This is done using the Attendance Monitor. The primary goal of ...
Attendance: How To Run Attendance Reports*
Attendance reports are very important to an SchoolDESX User. Attendance is a commonly used feature within the system and as it is part of determining a Student's progress in their Classes an ...
Attendance: What Does the Asterisk (*) Next a Student's Attendance Type Mean?
It means that the Attendance record has been taken for that day. Let's say that a parent calls in the morning saying that their kid is sick and won't be there for their afternoon class...well, the ...
Attendance: How To Use the Attendance Scale Field on the Class Information Form's General Page
The Attendance Scale is a Lookup List that is populated with items that directly relate to a point scale. Provide an Attendance Grade to a Student only if:a. the Grade Book is used for ...
SCO: C001.0 - Default for Class Attendance
Description/Instructions:
1 = Use SchoolDESX Attendance
0 = Do not Use S/D Attendance
Setting this value to 1, will cause the default for "Use SchoolDESX Attendance" to be set ...
SCO: C002.0 - Default for Attendance Type
Description/Instructions:
0=Negative Attendance Default
1=Positive Attendance Default
Setting this to 0 (Negative Attendance) will minimize the user effort and disk space required to rec ...
SCO: C037.0 - Class Schedules Match to Xfer Attendance
Description/Instructions:
When TRUE, attendance records will not be transferred when the class being transferred to is not scheduled to meet on the date when the attendance notation occurred.
Wh ...
Attendance: How To Acquire a Grade for Attendance
In order to acquire a grade for Attendance, the User must employ the Grade Book for the Class at hand as well as use the SchoolDESX Negative Attendance option to track Absences within the C ...
SCO: C002.5 - Positive Attendance use IN/OUT
Description/Instructions:
Set to TRUE will enable the IN/OUT attendance form for positive attendance recording
Default: FALSE
Attendance: How To Track Attendance Records using Third Party Services (i.e. Facility, Home School, Workplace)
Class Attendance records can be entered through interfaces that group the Students and Classes that are meeting on a particular day. Because Classes meet in Rooms that are recorded under t ...
Attendance: What is the "Other" Column on the Student/Class Attendance Form Calculating?
The "Other" column calculates the attendance types that start with any letter other than A,T, or P. This is because Attendance types are user-definable. The rule is that an "A" i ...
Attendance: How To Send Attendance Information to Home Schools and/or Workplaces*
There are several methods for sending Attendance information to Home Schools (Secondary Sending Schools) and/or Workplaces (Companies for Customized Training or OJT). Some of these methods ...
SCO: C041.0 - Hide Positive Attendance Option
Description/Instructions:Set to 'True' if you want to remove the attendance recording method option from the class information form. The default attendance recording method will be used for all cl ...
Attendance: How To Track Student/Class Attendance
In most Programs offered through career technical and vocational schools, especially for which Certificates are awarded, Attendance records are of high importance. The key is tracking the ...
Attendance: What is the Difference Between Positive and Negative Attendance?
The most common method for tracking Attendance records is using the Negative Attendance option. The Negative option asks the User to track the occurrences that a Student does NOT attend a ...
SCO: C004.0 - Allow User Input Attendance Summary Data
Description/Insturctions:
Setting this value to 'TRUE' allows the student class attendance summary information to be updated when SchoolDESX attendance has been turned off.
Type: L  ...
Attendance: How To Mark All Students Absent at One Time, Rather than One by One*
At the bottom of the Class Attendance form there is a "Mark All" button. When this option is selected, the Type Lookup List is displayed allowing the User to select an Attendance Type that ...
SCO: C006.0 - Enable Class Attendance Notification
Description/Instructions:Setting this value to TRUE allows the attendance monitor to be updated when class attendance has been taken.
Type: L
Default Value: TRUE
Attendance: How To Modify Student Attendance Records
Once an Attendance record has been entered for a particular Student, that Attendance record can be modified or even deleted, at any time as long as the Student's Class Enrolment status is "Activ ...
Attendance: How To Delete an Attendance Entry
Once an Attendance record has been entered for a particular Student, that Attendance record can be deleted if necessary, at any time as long as the Student's Class Enrolment status is "Active" in ...