I have a problem/challenge that I can't believe has not been solved somehow.
Our attendance flow is the following:
- Homeroom is the first class of the day. Homeroom ‘teachers’ enter an ‘ABSENT HR' code at the class level for homeroom.
- Right after homeroom, since right now we don't know why the student is absent, our attendance manager (AM) goes through ALL of the ‘ABSENT HR’ codes and sets each student to ‘TRUANT’ for the whole day.
This way, as each teacher opens their attendance window, they will see a [non-changeable] ‘TRUANT’ code for the student and won't expect to see the student.
We are a large enough school that the AM often has to set dozens of these codes, so we are trying to find the quickest way to do this. Right now, he:
1. Uses a ‘Day Attendance List’ showing ABSENT HR codes entered today,
2. Clicks a student's name to open the profile
3. Clicks ‘Record Absence’
4. Enters the date and the ‘TRUANT’ code
5. Saves and Closes
6. Hits the BACK button on the browser
7. Waits for the list to reload
8. Repeats for the next student
We thought he could at least keep the list up and, for step 2, do a <control>Click, to bring up the student's record in a separate tab [leaving the list intact in the original tab].
This somehow doesn't work. It brings up the student in the same tab, so once finished with that student, we need to reload the list anyway…
Am I missing something? It seems like it should be easier/quicker to do something like this.
