Note: The ability to add attendance for students is a feature designated by school leaders. Reach out to your teacher or school representative if you have questions about the use of this tool.
Users, Roles, and Prerequisites
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Administrators, Observers, students, and Teachers can use the Student Activity Tracker feature.
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Students must be enrolled in a course to enter attendance.
How to Access Attendance
Attendance is accessed through the Student Activity Tracker tool.
- Log in as a Student.
- Select the Student Activity Tracker tool from the Main Menu.
- The Attendance tab displays.
How to Access a Student’s Individual Page
The following steps explain how to access an individual student page for Observers with multiple students.
- Log in as an Observer.
- Select the Student Activity Tracker tool from the Main Menu
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Select a student. The student’s individual page displays.
Note: Individual students and Observers with only one student will automatically be taken to this page.
- Attendance can be entered two ways: Daily Codes and Numeric Hours.
How to Enter Daily Codes
Follow the steps below to enter Daily Codes for students.
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Select the date for the attendance entry.
Note: Entries cannot be made for future dates.
- Type the code that best represents attendance for that day. The codes are listed in the Daily Code Panel.
- Select Save Attendance Entry.
How to Add Numeric Hours
Users may enter up to 10 hours of attendance within a day.
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Select the date for the attendance entry.
Note: Entries cannot be made for future dates.
- Type in the number of hours for that day. Hours must be in increments of .25 and cannot exceed 10 hours daily.
- Select an Optional Activity Code from the drop-down menu to provide greater detail for the activity.
- Select Save Attendance Entry.
How to Edit an Existing Entry
Users have a certain number of days to edit their entries. The number of days is set by the Administrator.
- Log in as an Observer.
- Select the Student Activity Tracker from the Main Menu.
- The Individual Student page displays with a list view of the week below Attendance Record.
- Select Edit
next to the Entered By entry. The edit popup window displays.
- Edit the appropriate fields as needed.
- Select Save entry
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How to Remove an Existing Entry
To edit an entry, follow the steps below.
- Log in as an Observer.
- Select Student Activity Tracker from the Main Menu.
- The Individual Student page displays with a list view of the week below Attendance Record.
- Select the Delete icon, shown above, to remove an entry. A popup window displays to confirm the deletion.
- Select Delete.
How to Download a CSV Export File for an Individual Student
Users have the ability to download CSV export files to review and edit manual entries. This functionality is available to all users who have access to Connexus EMS.
- Log into Connexus EMS.
- Select the Student Activity Tracker from the Main Menu.
- Select Export as CSV.
- A popup window displays. A date range is pre-populated to the last 30 days. Select the Calendar icon to change the dates.
- Select Generate CSV.
- Go to the Downloads folder located on the computer to access the downloaded CSV file.