Class Attendance w/Meeting Attendance View

Allows teachers to view absence and tardy totals for a class by a specific term or the entire length of the course. Clicking on the totals shows the dates of the absences or tardies and attendance comments. Page is viewed by the teacher from the PowerTeacher Backpack. There are two versions of the report in the download - one shows only absences, the other shows absences and tardies. Be sure to read the readmes carefully.

4/22/2010 - updated with versions that show attendance comments, added to the Teachers category

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Teachers want MORE!

My teachers are asking me for an on screen tally of all excused and un-excused absences. I'm not sure where to even begin. I have looked at several different reports and customizations but I have not found what I'm looking for. I need a count of daily attendance AND a separate count of absence and tardy codes for that specific period.

Any ideas?

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

RE: Teachers want MORE!

On the Meeting Attendance View page, here's one of the parts that finds total absences:

(SELECT count(*) FROM attendance att WHERE studentid=s.id AND ccid=cc.id AND attendance_codeid in (~(v.abscodes)) AND att_date >= '~(v.ddfirstday)' AND att_date <= '~(v.ddlastday)' AND att_mode_code = 'ATT_ModeMeeting') ddabscount

The v commands are page variables set at the top of the page which I used in different spots, but the one that has the absence codes is the ~(v.abscodes) one. You could replace that with sql to look up Excused and Unexcused codes by looking at the attendance code entity and code entity tables. You'd probably have to create those lists either as other select statements or a temporary variable because the page variables aren't very good at multiple table extractions like sql. Or you could type in the attendance code id's themselves within the parenthesis.

Huh?...

Thanks for the reply Matt.

I have looked at the SELECT statement on the customized page. However, I have to admit that I don't truly understand this stuff. I do ALOT of guessing... I am MUCH better at taking an example and making it work for my needs. Is there a way you could show me an example of what you mean?

Thanks,

John

Attendance Summary

Just added this to our server. Used PowerGrade last year, using PowerTeacher this year and teachers were looking for an attendance summary to determine exam exemptions - this is just what they need. Thank you very much!

Attn/Tardy report location

Where specifically on the PowerSchool Server 5.2 are the custom admin/attendance/codes folder and the custom teachers folder? I looked into the 5.2 Premier folder on the server, into the Custom folder, but I didn't find the folder admin? If you could send the path from the desktop I would appreciate it. Thanks.

folder locations

Sounds like your custom folders area is blank. Click on the Tips and How To's link on the left side of the site and go to the Customization Basics page. You can either let PS create all the custom folders for you or you can create them by hand.

Matt

Attendance Report

Sorry I noticed I already posted.

Attendance Summary

Matt, teachers are saying that the tardies pulls the same info as the absence. Can you look into this.

Thanks
Judi

setup

I downloaded the pages on my test server and they worked fine. The tardies are based on checkmarks on the customized attendance code setup page, so you might want to check your non-tardy codes to be sure they don't have a check on the part about the attendance summary page.

Matt

Found the solution

Found the solution

Attendance Summary

Fantastic! Works great! Thanks again Matt for everything!

Thanks Matt, the report you

Thanks Matt, the report you had in posted before also included tardies, could this be added?

I've added it to the

I've added it to the download.

Matt

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