Teachers on campus

Amanda Polson

Does anyone know of a way to maintain a record of teacher attendance in Blackbaud? As in, keeping track of the days teachers are at school?

Jason Larocque

@Amanda Polson I dont think this is a feature available.

Lauren Marcus Eisenberg

@Amanda Polson Would like to see a feature that captures which teachers are on campus and those who aren't. For us, it would be great to allow teachers to sign in/out during a given day. Presently, we use a google form. In case of emergency, we know who left for any extended time during the day.

John Ronan

All, back in the EE days, this feature was also not available, BUT we did the following, which could probably be done quite easily in BEM:

• Create a [skeletal] student record for each faculty member
• Enroll them in a class whose “teacher” is the one person who is in charge of attendance [e.g. for us, it'd be the “AP of Faculty”]
• Have that teacher enter and manage these record

We found that at end-of-year, the AP could just run a single report to manage stuff like sick days accrued, etc.

[Come to think of it, I'm surprised this hasn't been requested of me lately ;-) ]

Jess Moxsky

There are some solutions available in the Marketplace like Visitu or SchoolPass that can track faculty or staff attendance, but agreed that this is a feature that doesn't exist in the K12 suite currently.

I will say, there is no way for a user to have both the Student role and also a Teacher or Non-Teaching Staff role currently, so creating these skeletal student records for teachers is going to create a ton of weird duplicate data in the system. I wouldn't go that route but as long as you're aware of the duplicates I suppose it would be workable.

John Ronan

Good point re dupes, Jess.

To dodge any confusion 'cuz of that, we morphed the last name. “Ronan, John” [the teacher] would be a “student” named something like “fac_Ronan, John”.