Attendance: Reminders

Jason Chase

Hello,

I want to send push notifications to my teachers who haven't taken class attendance. I have the push notification part figured out. Is there a Sky API end-point that I can use to see if a teacher has taken attendance? The end-point I'm using now returns attendance data by the day for students who were absent or tardy. I want to be able to query per class(section).

Thanks for your help,

Jason

Stephen Boyle

@Jason Chase
There is not (yet) an endpoint that returns attendance by class section.

There is a SKY API endpoint (GET List single) that will deliver the output from an Advanced List. I see Attendance taken as an element that you can include. Here is a KB article that might help.

Jason Chase

@Stephen Boyle
Thanks Stephen. I created the List, and it had exactly what I needed.

When searching for an end-point that provided the current day schedule, I found an attendance_taken field in the Schedules meetings end-point (V1SchedulesMeetingsGet).

Example data:

{
"section_id": 89613899,
"section_identifier": "2",
"course_title": "Honors Spanish 4: Literature of Spain",
"group_name": "Honors Spanish 4: Literature of Spain - 2 (DOT 1)",
"block_id": 21298,
"block_name": "DOT 1",
"room_id": 31568,
"room_name": "H301",
"room_number": 0,
"room_capacity": 18,
"room_code": "H301",
"faculty_user_id": #######,
"faculty_name": "----------",
"faculty_firstname": "--------",
"faculty_lastname": "---------",
"start_time": "2023-12-12T14:35:00-05:00",
"end_time": "2023-12-12T15:30:00-05:00",
"meeting_date": "2023-12-12T00:00:00+00:00",
"attendance_required": true,
"attendance_taken": true,
"num_absent": 0,
"attendance_id": 14480122,
"level_number": 2155,
"offering_type": {
"id": 1,
"description": "Academics"
}

Thanks,

Jason

Stephen Boyle

@Jason Chase
Good catch!

I forgot that was in there. Using GET Schedules Meetings to step through all the meetings for a day or week seems like an excellent way to isolate class meetings that didn't report attendance.