PowerSchool Attendance Overview
- David Visnofsky
- Caleb Hartman
- Justin Hetrick
Track students' attendance in several ways using the various attendance functions. Depending on your school's needs, you can track daily attendance, section attendance, or attendance by time.
Given the proper permissions, administrators, teachers, and substitute teachers can take attendance using the following:
PowerSchool SIS Admin Portal: There are several ways to take and change attendance for a student or group of students, either for one day or several days.
PowerSchool SIS Teacher Portal: Teachers can take attendance for their current classes.
Attendance Modes
There are five modes of taking attendance: by day, by meeting, by interval, by time, or concurrently.
Mode | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|
Daily Attendance - Elementary | Take attendance for one or more days. Daily attendance calculates attendance by the minute or by attendance code. | PowerSchool SIS Admin Portal PowerTeacher Pro |
Meeting Attendance - Secondary | Take attendance by meeting. An expression, formulated by combining the periods and days in which this section takes place, represents meetings for a section. Example: "1-2(A)" can represent a section of Biology that meets during first and second period on "A" day. | PowerSchool SIS Admin Portal PowerTeacher Pro |