| Any
class can be used for recording student attendance marks. If you are
an elementary teacher, you may find it best to use your first class
of the day for recording attendance; when you print multi-class progress
reports, Easy Grade Pro will automatically find and use the right
class when printing the attendance chart portion of the report. If
you are a secondary teacher, you can record attendance in every class. |
| To
record attendance marks in a class, attendance categories and a term
calendar must be set up. (Setting up a calendar is discussed in the
next section). You can set up to fifteen attendance categories. An
attendance category has four attributes. The category,
such as Excused
Absence, is the full name of the category. The master
category, such as, Absent,
names the major grouping that the category belongs to. The code,
such as AE,
is the one- or two-character mark that is entered in an attendance
cell. The value
is used when calculating totals and should be 1.00 for full-day marks,
0.50 for half-day, etc. Easy Grade Pro will calculate totals for all
of your categories and master categories. |
| To
edit attendance category options: |
| 1 |
Open
the Class Options window to the Attendance view. |
| 2 |
To
edit the list of Master Categories, first press and hold on any row
in the Master Category column. From the menu that pops up, choose
Edit this Menu.
In the window that appears, edit the list of master categories. |
| 3 |
For
each of your attendance categories, select the Master Category and
enter the category, code and value. |
| |
Once
you start using your attendance codes, it is important that you don't
change their order or meaning and that you don't delete items that
are in use. |
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