Class Attendance

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 2:10pm  •  
Submitted by tscoff  •

Displays the Daily Attendance for a class on the screen where teachers take Meeting Attendance. Also shows the Daily Attendance for the entire building and the count of absences and tardies for that class for the year. Put this file in the custom/web_root/teachers folder on the server after enabling customization.

12/23/2009 - Updated to hide blank (Present) attendance codes.

7/1/2009 - Updated for PowerSchool 6. Also added the code for multi-period attendance.

Contributor: 
Brian Andle
Roger Sprik
Jason Treadwell
Tim Scoff
Pro: 
N
Premier - 5.1.x: 
N
Premier - 5.2.x: 
Y
Premier - 6.x: 
Y

Comments

Term activity

Submitted by wmkman on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 11:56am

This is so great, thank you.

I was wondering though, if it was possible to either add or replace the YTD total of tardies with the term (Q1 or M1 in our case) total tardies.

thanks again

Bill Kolkman

In order to do that, the

Submitted by tscoff on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 12:27pm

In order to do that, the code has to be completely rewritten. PowerSchool doesn't store the term attendance (tardies and absences), only the full course attendance. It can be done, but I haven't taken the time to do it.

Tim Scoff, tim@scoff.net

YTD Totals not displaying properly

Submitted by gosenl on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 10:33am

Thanks so much for this report. I'm having a problem, though, in the YTD section. Currently we have 4 periods that make-up our 'Homeroom'. This 'Homeroom' is where daily attendance is taken. The totals in this YTD section are all multiplied by 4. So, a student who has been absent only one day shows as being absent for 4. Is there a bit of code that I need to add? Or, is there a preference that I need to set to make this display properly?

Lisa Gosen
Hawthorn Dist. 73

You can modify the

Submitted by tscoff on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 6:52am

You can modify the "Absences" and divide by 4. That should give you the results that you want.

Tim Scoff, tim@scoff.net

I tried a few things that I

Submitted by gosenl on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 3:31pm

I tried a few things that I thought might work. But, none of them did. Since my skills here are limited, can you tell me how I'd go about doing this?

Thanks.

Lisa

Can this be used with Custom Web Page Management?

Submitted by Karina on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 1:04am

In fact, is there a downside to switching to the web page management? (We are on a hosted system) Thanks, Karina Gallie

re: Can this be used with custom web page management?

Submitted by jtreadwell on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 10:24am

You technically could use this with CPM. If you are hosted it's probably the best option, however you need to realize you'll lose all of your photos. I'm not sure if 6.0.0.2 fixed that issue, but I don't think it did. But yes, this should work in CPM if you choose to use it.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

Screen Shot

Submitted by lenciso on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 6:25am

Do you happen to have a screen shot of what this looks like? I believe this is what I am looking for but I want to double check to make sure before we load this on to our server.

Thanks
Lukas Enciso

re: Screen Shot

Submitted by jtreadwell on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 2:19pm

I have added a screen shot of my district's teacher attendance screen. This particular class only has one student in it and I've cut off the list of attendance on the bottom to only include 1 record as an example, not the whole list.

Also note that the screen shot has a second button which is the button for Classattendance Meeting Comments by Brian Andle.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

Premier 6 and multiple periods

Submitted by tscoff on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 1:51pm

I just updated the page for Premier 6. While I was at it I also updated it so that it supports multi-period attendance the way PowerSchool expects it to.

Tim Scoff, tim@scoff.net

Time

Submitted by jashley on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 9:57pm

I'm trying to add Time in to the page. I was able to add the inner join to the attendance_time table and get the data to display, however instead of saying 7:31 AM it says 27060... I'm assuming this is because the time_in field is a "Time" field and not a text or integer.

What can I do to make it display the field as a time?

John

Jason wrote the code to

Submitted by tscoff on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 5:09pm

Jason wrote the code to display the time properly in his One Stop Attendance and I haven't copied it to this page. That's why I display the Comment field, I have my secretaries put the time in/out in there.

Tim Scoff, tim@scoff.net

My Teachers want MORE!!

Submitted by jashley on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:23am

We are using this customized page. It is wonderful. We have stopped printing out daily attendance reports. However, my teachers are looking for a count of meeting attendance totals for excused absences and un-excused absences. Right now the page only totals daily attendance.

Any ideas?

John Ashley
Old Rochester Regional
Mattapoisett, MA
jashley@orr.mec.edu

Attendance for Multiple Sections

Submitted by volle343 on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 2:47pm

We were so excited when the option to take attendance for multiple sections meeting in the same period was avalible. But it didn't work for us. It doesn't show that attendance has been taken in the sections if everyone is present. I put all of the customizations in the folders as instructed. Is there something else that I need to do to get it to work?

Thanks,

Sheila Volle
Perry-Lecompton Public Schools

Thank you thank you thank you

Submitted by rklynch on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 11:57am

We are finally moving teachers to meeting attendance. It is wonderful. Thank you all!

Richard Lynch
North Bergen, NJ

Is it possible....

Submitted by ascroggins on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 3:08pm

First I would like to thank you for all your hard work. I really appreciate all of your help.

I was wondering if it would be possible to add a column that contained the last date they received and unexcused absence?

We have a policy at our school that if a student was unexcused absent the last time this class met, he should be sent to the office to resolve the unknown absence. So my goal is to come up with a way to automatically tell the teacher whether or not to send the student to the office but I don't know if I could figure out how to dis-regard all the non meeting days between the last day attendance was taken so I will settle for the last Date the student was absent and let the teacher decipher the information.

Aaron Scroggins
Technology Director
Heavener Public Schools

That's difficult

Submitted by tscoff on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 8:27am

That would be a little bit difficult and I'm not sure where to start on that. However, check out the 30 Day Attendance report that I just posted. It might meet your needs. I know that my teachers have been asking for that report for a long time.

Tim Scoff, tim@scoff.net

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