This process requires Admin or Manager access. If you are unable to complete any of the steps, please check with your Admin.
Keeping students accountable for their actions is important. Clipboard allows you to follow up and email all students or their parents about Attendance issues.
To email students or their parents about their attendance:
Go to Attendance
Select View Attendance List from the top tab.
Use the filters to select the Attendance Flags or Attendance Status you are searching for, eg. Arrived Late or Unexplained Absence. You can further filter your results by Activity, Department, Time Period, Year Group, and more.
Check the top box to select all students listed. Click Actions and then choose from the dropdown menu to either Email Selected Students or Email Guardians of Selected.
From here you can choose to: a) copy the email addresses to send from your email account; or b) send an email from within Clipboard to the email addresses.
Top Tip: The number in the red circle tells you how many Students are selected!
Perhaps multiple students were marked on the roll incorrectly? Well you can search for specific students and correct the attendance record by following these steps!
To bulk update Attendance:
Go to Attendance
Select View Attendance List from the top tab.
Use the filters to select the Attendance Status that you are searching for, eg. Unexplained Absence
Further filter your results by Time period, Year Group and Activity to narrow down your search results.
Click on the boxes to select multiple attendance records or click on the top box to select all attendance records within your filters.
Click on the Actions button and select the change of Attendance Status that you want, eg. Explained Absence
See below for an example of unexplained absences, for Year 12 students attending Rugby on the 1st of May 2021.
