You - the front office - can mark a student absent for dates in the future (or past). In the example below we are going to set a student to be out for a surgery for a week. You could use this setup for the same idea if a student is leaving for a month long vacation or extended period away from school. This also applies to any of the codes that we have.
Find the student
Click on Attendance
Click on Daily since we know the student will be out for the entire day.
Click on Change Multiple Days
Enter in the from and to dates (starting and ending dates)
Choose all codes to scan for
If you were changing a series of absent unexcused to absent unexcused for this specific student, you could choose only absent unexcused to search for and apply this change.
This box to scan would be used if you were scanning for codes in the past (other than present and/or blank because attendance hasn’t been taken).
Choose the code to set if there are any of the codes found (IE: What are you going to replace the code with?)
Leave the “if other than a default present” overwrite as “overwriting”.
This simply is asking “if a student was marked as A or AUX (Absent Unexcused) should we overwrite that code to the new one?” If this was in the past, then yes you would want to change it.
Click Submit.
If you are a school where period attendance is taken (MIS/JH), you’ll probably want to change the meeting attendance as well (so then the teachers can’t mark the student as being present when you know he’s not in school.
This also works for those scenarios where a student is sent home by the nurse and is required to stay out of school due to a medical reason (24 hours)