Taking attendance, and recording alumni
Attendance is taken for a section, from the students enrolled in it; an alumni record is always a former student.
Attendance by section
- Open Student Lifecycle → Teaching & Delivery → Attendance and press New.
- Choose the Section first.
- The Student list now offers only the students enrolled in that section. Choose the student, the date and the status, and add minutes late if they were.
If a student is missing from the list, they are not enrolled in that section. Check their enrolment rather than recording attendance against another section.
Since 16 October this list is Attendance Marks, with each student’s cumulative attendance beside every mark; Attendance is now the dashboard. A teacher records marks only for the sections they teach, and the quickest way is the register on My Teaching or the timetable calendar. See Timetable, registers and cumulative attendance.
Alumni
On Student Lifecycle → Completion → Alumni, Student is required: an alumni record belongs to somebody who studied here. Choose the student and their programme, email and phone are filled in from their student record wherever you leave those blank. Anything you type yourself — a newer email, for instance — is kept.