Attendance Preferences

Data Element

Additional Information

[Table]FieldName

Used in these Reports

Attendance Recording Methods

Select the Meeting checkbox to enable meeting attendance.

Select the Daily checkbox to enable daily attendance.

[Prefs]Value

[Prefs]Name=ATT_RecordModeMeeting

[Prefs]Value

[Prefs]Name=ATT_RecordModeDaily

NOVA Resource:

StudentSchoolAttendanceEvents

StudentSectionAttendanceEvents

Legacy Reports:

Student Daily Attendance

Student Summary Attendance

Count these codes for period conversion

Choose [Absences/Presents] from the count these codes for period conversion pop-up menu.

Note: This option determines whether or not to count present or absent codes for period-to-day attendance conversions.

[Prefs]Value

[Prefs]Name=ATT_CalcCntPresentsAbsences

NOVA Resource:

StudentSchoolAttendanceEvents

Legacy Reports:

Student Daily Attendance

Student Summary Attendance

Meeting and Daily Attendance Bridge

Select the appropriate option for the Meeting and Daily Attendance Bridge.

When using both Meeting and Daily attendance modes, the bridge period allows you to synchronize attendance records. PowerSchool uses the bridge period attendance to populate the daily attendance.

A bridge period is defined in each bell schedule.

Select One-Way if your school takes attendance multiple times per day i.e. the teacher takes attendance in each period. The attendance code recorded in the bridge period will be used to set the daily attendance code.

Select Two-Way if your school takes attendance only once each day. The attendance code recorded in the bridge period will be used to set the daily attendance code. When the office staff updates a student’s daily attendance code, the attendance code in the bridge period will also be updated.

Note: Two-Way is required to keep the corresponding Meeting attendance record synchronized when there is a change made to a Daily attendance record.

NOVA Resource:

StudentSchoolAttendanceEvents

Legacy Reports:

Student Daily Attendance

Student Summary Attendance

Count meeting attendance recorded at another school for students enrolled at this school

If a student is enrolled in a class at another school, and there is attendance associated with that class, select this option to include this attendance when calculating ADA for PowerSchool reports.

Note: If a student is enrolled in another school during the bridge period, the attendance will not roll back to the home school. In that case, the daily attendance must be manually entered for that student at his home school.

NOVA Resource:

StudentSectionAttendanceEvents

Legacy Reports:

Student Daily Attendance

Student Summary Attendance

Count these codes for period conversion

Choose Presents from the count of these codes for the period conversion pop-up menu.

[Prefs]Value

[Prefs]Name=ATT_CalcCntPresentsAbsences

NOVA Resource:

StudentSchoolAttendanceEvents

Legacy Reports:

Student Daily Attendance

Student Summary Attendance

Round or truncate

Choose whether to round or truncate calculations that exceed the designated decimal places.

Note: Round should be selected for NOVA reporting.

N/A