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Attendance

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Purpose

The Attendance module gives a School Admin a school-wide view of the attendance teachers mark every day — which classes have been marked, who's absent, and how attendance rolls up into the monthly summary parents see in their app. Admins don't usually mark day-to-day attendance themselves (that's the Teacher's job, from My Classes → Attendance), but they own the school-wide picture and step in when a class is missed.

When to Use

  • Every morning, to confirm every class has been marked for the day.
  • When a parent asks about their child's attendance and you need to check the record directly.
  • At month-end, when generating attendance reports for management or compliance.
  • When a teacher reports they marked attendance incorrectly and it needs correcting.

How to Use

  1. Open Attendance from the Admin dashboard.

  2. Pick a date — today is selected by default. Classes that haven't been marked yet for that date are flagged so you can follow up with the teacher.

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    The Attendance overview screen, showing a list of classes with a marked/unmarked status badge next to each one.

  3. Tap a class to see its student-by-student attendance for that day: Present, Absent, or Late, along with who marked it and when.

  4. To correct an entry, open the class, select the student, and update their status. Larnup keeps the original entry and the correction both — corrections don't silently overwrite history.

  5. For a wider view, switch to the Monthly Summary tab to see each class's present/absent/late percentage for the month, which is the same summary parents see for their own child.

  6. Use Export to download an attendance report (by class, by date range) for offline record-keeping.

TipApproved leave (from the Leave module) is automatically reflected as attendance for that day — you don't need to mark a student absent separately if their leave was already approved.
TipIf a class is consistently marked late in the day, check whether the teacher's timetable period for that class runs later than when attendance is expected — sometimes it's a scheduling issue, not a teacher issue.
Common MistakeEditing attendance after report cards or monthly reports have already been shared with parents can cause confusion — always check whether reports have gone out before correcting old records, and let affected parents know if a correction changes their summary.
Common MistakeDon't mark a student "Absent" to represent an unapproved leave request — approve or reject the leave request itself in the Leave module first, so the record stays consistent between the two modules.