How are you doing half day attendance

Patricia Krueger
Patricia Krueger
Third Anniversary Name Dropper Facilitator 1
in Blackbaud Student Information System™

Does anyone do half day attendance? How are you calculating that correctly? I am being told that the Full Day/Half Day you put beside an attendance code is not being used for that purpose. If a student leaves early we want to count that as a half day absence.

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  • Candi Roberts
    Candi Roberts
    Kudos 4 Fourth Anniversary First Reply Name Dropper

    @Patricia Krueger We have an attendance category called Half Day. Under it, we have two reasons: Half Day Excused and Half Day Unexcused. Although it still technically calculates as a full day, our attendance monitors know it's a half day and it shows to parents as a half day.

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  • Amanda Polson
    Amanda Polson
    Fourth Anniversary Kudos 2 Name Dropper Participant

    @Patricia Krueger We set up a morning class and an afternoon class. Students who are full day are enrolled in both. This is our Early Childhood dept and we also have 2, 3, and 5 days, half or full. So its a little complicated attendance wise (sometimes children stay for full days once a week too, and half days the remaining). This year was our first using blackbaud so it was a process setting it up. But I think we will do the same for next year.

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