Online Attendance Submissions
GradeSpeed’s Attendance module gives teachers the ability to record attendance from their classrooms and offers administrators the industry’s most powerful attendance reporting tools.

Taking attendance as a teacher
The attendance screen will display all students in the current period, with any attendance codes that the teacher is permitted to enter - for example, at some schools, a teacher may only use the codes “Present,” “Tardy,” or “Unexcused Absence,” leaving codes such as “Medical Absence,” “Religious Absence,” or “Excused Absence” for the attendance clerk to enter. The teacher can enter attendance using the radio buttons next to the students’ names. Teachers can also change periods and/or time codes to take attendance for multiple periods without switching pages. Teachers also have the ability to print a paper roster and generate readable attendance reports.

Managing attendance as an administrator
Administrators have a wide range of attendance tools available to them. GradeSpeed administrators can define attendance codes for both teachers and attendance clerks, and can define time codes and the time code calendar quickly. GradeSpeed’s Attendance Module allows administrators and office staff to view and modify attendance data efficiently.

Create reports for teachers
GradeSpeed can produce roster reports, attendance summary sheets, and submission reports. These reports – the Display Teacher Progress report, Daily Attendance Summary, Teacher Verification report, and Attendance Totals by Code report – can be used to assist substitute teachers, enforce mandatory attendance submission times, and verify teacher’s attendance records.

Record attendance for teachers, students, or groups
Attendance clerks can record attendance per teacher or class quickly and easily; changes made by the clerks are final but will be visible to teachers. Clerks can also record attendance per student for convenience, or record attendance for an activity group (for example, the clerk might mark the entire choir with the code “Excused Absence” for several periods on a future date).