Allowing teachers to see pre-entered absences, trips, etc. ahead of time

Brendan McGrath

Hello! At our school, when students have an upcoming field trip, an early dismissal for an athletic event, or some other reason why they won't be in class for certain periods, our attendance manager pre-enters that ahead of time. However, teachers can only see those upcoming absences, trips, etc. on the actual day – so, for example, when it became this current day (October 14th) at midnight, my “Take Attendance” buttons appeared for all my classes in “My Day” under “Schedules & Performance,” and now I can look ahead of time and see that certain students will be missing class today due to early dismissal for cross country meets, etc. What I'd like to know is this: is there a way teachers could be enabled to see this information BEFORE the actual day rolls around, since our attendance manager does enter it several days in advance?

To elaborate: Currently, on the “Schedule & Performance” tab, I can click back hundreds of days into the past, and see the attendance for my classes for all those days – but if I click FORWARD through all the days, there's nothing there that lets me see the attendance stuff ahead of time (such as those pre-entered absences for trips, etc.). Is there setting our school could change that would allow all teachers to see that information? Either on the “Schedule & Performance” tab, or somewhere else?

Thanks so much!

UPDATE: (I think I might have posted this in the wrong topic; I'm going to try to post it elsehwere too.)