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Marking attendance

Homeroom teachers mark their class every day. It takes under a minute once you know the moves — and Simusim protects your work with autosave and a clear marking window.

~7 minStaff ConsoleHomeroom teachers

§ 01Open your class

In the Staff Console, open Attendance. You'll see the classes you teach as homeroom, each with today's marking status. Press Open on the class.

The attendance class picker listing the homeroom classes a teacher marks, each with enrolled count, marked count and a status.
Fig.Only the classes you teach as homeroom appear here. If yours is missing, ask your admin to set your homeroom.

§ 02Mark the register

  1. Check the Date (defaults to today). The week strip above lets you jump to a recent day.
  2. For each student tap Present, Late or Absent — or press Mark all present and change only the exceptions.
  3. The count chips (Present, Late, Absent, Unmarked) update live.
  4. Press Save. A banner confirms how many marks were saved.
The marking screen with the week strip, the date picker, live count chips, Mark all present, Save, and a roster of students with Present/Late/Absent pills and a Note toggle.
Fig.Your work autosaves as a draft while you go, so a closed tab never loses marks.

§ 03Excused absences & reasons

When you mark a student Late or Absent, an Excused toggle and a reason picker appear. Choose a reason — Sick, Medical appointment, Bereavement, Travel, Religious observance, School activity, Suspension or Other. Several of these tick Excused for you automatically. (A Present mark never carries a reason.)

A student row marked Absent, revealing the Excused toggle and a reason-code picker with options like Sick, Medical appointment and Travel.
Fig.Reasons feed the school's attendance-exceptions report and a child's record.

§ 04Fixing a mark you already saved

Marked someone wrong? Saved rows show a Correct button that opens a small inline form to fix that one student — no need to re-save the whole class.

§ 05The 7-day marking window

You can mark today or any day in the last 7 days. Pick an older date and you'll see a notice that it's outside your window — ask a school admin to backfill it. Marking a past (but in-window) date is recorded as a late entry.

Note School admins can mark or correct any past date; teachers are limited to the rolling 7-day window.

§ 06Attendance history

The View attendance history link opens a read-only grid of past markings for the class, so you can review a week or a particular student at a glance.

The read-only attendance history grid showing students against recent dates with their present/absent/late marks.
Fig.History is read-only — use Correct on the daily screen to change a saved mark.

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