Attendance & Timetable
MarkBook shows attendance and the timetable. It does not store them. They come from Kinderpedia: the daily check-in records, and the Activity Calendar for lessons. Everything on these pages is read-only. You take a register in Kinderpedia, not in MarkBook.
For the lesson pages to work, your school must connect MarkBook to the Activity Calendar. See Activity Calendar Connection.
Attendance
Open Attendance and choose an academic year and a class. You need the permission View attendance.
Choose the period
Tick one or more reporting periods. Only the days in those periods count. If you tick none, MarkBook uses the whole academic year. A period that is still running is counted up to today.
Example: tick "Term 1A" and "Term 1B" together and you get the whole of Term 1.
Choose the subject
Select All subjects to add up every linked subject, or one subject to read only its lessons. Choose Day register (whole school) to see the daily check-in instead of lessons.
A subject marked "not linked to the calendar" has no lessons to read. Link it to a calendar discipline under Configuration → Assessment → Subjects.
The columns
For each student the grid shows:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Planned lessons | Lessons of the student's class and option groups, from the start of the period up to today |
| Registered | Planned lessons where the teacher took the student's attendance |
| Present | Lessons marked present, late arrivals included |
| Late | Lessons marked as a late arrival |
| Authorised absence | Lessons marked absent with a reason |
| Unauthorised absence | Lessons marked absent without a reason |
| Not taken | Planned lessons with no attendance for this student |
| Attendance % | Present divided by registered lessons |
Three rules help you read these figures:
- "Not taken" is not an absence. Taking a register is the teacher's choice. A lesson with no register does not lower the percentage.
- A late arrival counts as present and as late. It is never lost from the attendance figure.
- A student only counts the lessons of their own groups, up to today.
The cards above the grid give the class average, days recorded, absences, late arrivals and registers taken. The class average uses students who have a figure. A student with no marks is left out and is not counted as 0%.
One student
Open a student from the grid to see an Attendance tab with a row for each subject and a total. You can download it with Download XLSX. The same figures appear on the student's report card.
Partial data
If MarkBook cannot read a whole register, a notice says the figures are partial, not zero. If Kinderpedia cannot be reached, the page says so. Nothing is lost. Try again in a moment.
Timetable
Open Timetable to see one week of lessons as the Activity Calendar holds them.
- Class shows one class. Whose timetable lets you choose My lessons or All teachers.
- A lesson shows as Register taken when someone took attendance at it.
- A summary line counts the lessons of the week and how many have a register.
- The schedule is read-only. Change it in the Activity Calendar.
Lesson window
Click a lesson to open it. Two tabs may appear:
- Lesson plan: the lesson from your course plan, with a switch to record that the lesson was taught. The tab appears only if course plans are switched on.
- Attendance: the lesson's class, every lesson it has that day, each student's check-in and check-out, and the marks already taken. You cannot change marks here.
When something looks wrong
- "We could not reach the Activity Calendar": the connection failed. This is not an empty timetable. Try again later.
- "Not every lesson or register could be read": some lessons may show as not registered. The week is incomplete.
- "Predates lesson planning": the school's calendar has no timetabled lessons.
- Nothing at all: check that the key is connected and still valid. See Common Issues.
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