Newly documented procedure.

Extra documentation has been added about editing several absence events at the same time.

Modifying existing absence events in bulk

New fields in the Attendance Maintenance window.

You can create pastoral care items from templates quickly for selected students while marking a class attendance.

Attendance Maintenance window

Multi-period attendance.

You can combine attendance records for classes that span multiple periods.

Recording class attendances

New filter options in Student Class Allocation

You can restrict the students displayed in the Students area by their allocation status and the students displayed in the Classes area by your student search criteria.

Allocating students to classes

Custom alert icons in attendance.

You can select to display custom alert icons in Attendance Maintenance.

Attendance Maintenance window

New fields on Attendance Maintenance Search Criteria window.

When searching for classes to enter attendance for, you can use new icons to cancel the class or launch Pastoral Care Maintenance for the class.

Searching for attendance records

Absence Events Maintenance available in SynWeb.

You can use Absence Events Maintenance to record student absences and planned absences, sign students in and out, record excursions and all day absences and manage absence slips.

Individual student absence events

Refined documentation.

The documentation on searching for attendance records has been refined.

Searching for attendance records

New field in the Mark Class Attendance window.

You can use the Show Alerts field to select to display any alerts for students when marking attendance for co-curricular activities.

Mark Class Attendance window

New fields in the Attendance Maintenance Search Criteria window.

You can now filter attendance record searches in the Attendance Maintenance Search Criteria window by:

• classes not marked today
• classes up to the end of a selected period.

Searching for attendance records

New fields in Attendance Maintenance.

In the Attendance Maintenance window you can mark attendances as a different staff member and show today's attendance.

Attendance Maintenance window

New Where Is Student window.

You can find where students are scheduled to be using the Where Is Student window.

Using the Where Is Student window

New Unaccounted Students window.

You can list students who are unaccounted for using the Unaccounted Students window.

Using the Unaccounted Students window

New Study Period Maintenance window.

You can use Study Period Maintenance to:

• sign students in to study periods
• view study period sign in lists
• remove students from a study period.

Maintaining study periods

New Students Class Allocation window.

You can view and maintain allocations of students to classes using the Student Class Allocation window.

Using the Student Class Allocation window

New modes in the Attendance Maintenance Search Criteria window.

You can now choose to maintain attendance records as a Teacher or Attendance Officer in the Attendance Maintenance Search Criteria window.

Searching for attendance records

New Reason For Modifying Attendance fields.

If you modify a student's attendance records of a class while in Teacher mode, you must type in a reason when submitting the new attendance.

Recording class attendances

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Unsubmit Attendance

SynWeb now allows you to unsubmit an attendance record if you recorded the wrong class.

Recording class attendance

Cancel Class

You can now cancel classes for events that interrupt the regular timetable.

Cancelling classes