Mark and track student attendance

The quickest way is Academics → Attendance in the sidebar. The page is called Today's registers, and it opens on your class, with a Take the register link that takes you straight to your class's register with today's date already picked. Once it's taken, the same row says Taken and how many students are marked. The Take today's register button on your home page does the same thing.

You can also get there the long way: Academics → Classes, click Open on the class, then the Attendance tab. Each class is a small hub with five tabs across the top (Overview, Students, Academics, Attendance and Timetable), and the register lives on that fourth one.

If you teach subjects but you aren't a class teacher, you have no register to take. The Attendance page tells you so: Registers are taken by class teachers. You don't have a class of your own.

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The register opens on today. The date button at the top-left of the register shows which day you're marking. If you're catching up on an earlier day (say you forgot yesterday), click it and pick the right date from the calendar.

Click All Present at the top of the register. Every student in the class is now marked Present. This is the fastest way. Most days, most students are there.

Then go down the list and change the few who aren't. Beside each student are three buttons: Present, Absent and Late. Tap the one that's true for that student. The button fills in to show it's chosen. Tapped the wrong one? Tap the right one instead. Tapping the chosen button again clears that student back to unmarked.

• Absent: for students who didn't come at all.
• Late: for students who arrived after the cutoff time (your school decides what counts as late).

You don't need to type anything. The bar at the bottom of the screen keeps count as you go: how many are present, absent, late, and still unmarked.

When you're done, click Save Attendance in the bar at the bottom of the screen. It stays in view however far down the register you've scrolled. You'll see a confirmation of how many students were saved.

If you realise afterwards that you got someone's status wrong, come back to the same date (the register opens with what you saved), tap the right button for that student and click Save Attendance again. edunile keeps the most recent version.

The four cards at the top of the same Attendance tab give you the bigger picture for this class: the overall Attendance Rate, and the total number of Present, Absent and Late marks recorded so far.

To look at one particular day, pick it with the date button and the register shows exactly what was recorded. A student who's been absent three or four days in a row deserves a phone call to the parent.