Attendance

Overview

School staff can create an attendance record per class on a daily basis or by term in the Rise system and from the app. You can view attendance in Attendance report for any period.

Attendance document

In RSM, you can use the Attendance document to register attendance by days or by terms.
To create an Attendance Records document:
  1. Go to School and click Attendance Records.
  2. Click Create.
  3. Select the period type: by day or by term.
  4. If the "by day" type is selected, select the date in the Period field. If "by term" type is selected, select the year in the Period field.
  5. Select the Term and Class.
  6. Enter the document Author.
  7. On the Students tab, Click Fill in to add the students from the selected class or Add to add students manually.
  8. If the "by day" type is selected, for each student, select one of the following Present, Absent, Late Coming, or Early Leave. If the "by term" type is selected, for each student, enter the number of days Present, Absent, Late Coming, or Early Leave during this term.
  9. Specify the Reason for absence.
  10. Click Post and close.
Note: before creating Attendance by term, make sure the Number of days per term is specified in the Term card.
To inform parents about student's absence / late coming:
  1. Go to School and click Attendance.
  2. Open the Attendance document.
  3. Click Email parents (absent / late coming) > Yes or Send SMS to parents (absent / late coming) > Yes. These buttons are available if Use email attendance notifications and Use SMS attendance notifications check boxes are selected in the School settings (Quick menu > Settings > School) and SMS integration is set.

Attendance report

In this report you can see days absent, late coming, days early leave, days present and present % for each student.
To run the report:
  1. Go to School and click Attendance under Reports.
  2. Select a required period.
  3. Click Run report.
  4. Export a report in PDF or Excel if needed.