Taking Attendance in Power Teacher

To take Attendance in PowerSchool Teacher

Go to internet using a web browser – example internet explorer, Firefox etc

In the address bar (where you usually type www.aol.com, etc type the following:

http:// Refer to ip address/teachers

login: refer to sheet

password: refer to sheet

How to Take Attendance

Locate your homeroom class on your schedule

1. On the PowerSchool Teacher start page, click the chair icon. The Record Meeting Attendance page appears.

Click on the chair

Your list will display. Here's a sample

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2. Choose the attendance code from the pop-up menu you want to assign.
3. Click the field next to the name of each student you want to assign the attendance code to.
4. Repeat Step 1 and Step 2 for each different attendance code you want to assign. It is not necessary to perform this task for students who are present.
5. Click Submit. The attendance marks are saved to the PowerSchool system, and the start page reappears.

(All the students are here, so just select the students that you need to mark tardy or absent. Click on their option bar and change option to Absent or Tardy/next to their Name. Click on student’s box if they are absent or tardy) An A or T will appear next to their Name. ) submit when you are done

Have a great year!

S Debbie

Admin Side of Daily Attendaance

Admin or Secretary Side of taking Attendance

Login to PS using your admin account

http://24......

your login name;password

Click on Absentee Report from the Start Page

Attendance Mode is Daily

If your school takes attendance for every grade you don’t need to select the grade. See Sample below.

1. On the start page, choose Reports from the main menu. The Reports page appears.
2. Click Run Reports. The Run Reports page appears.
3. Click Absentee. The Absentee Report page appears.

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Click submit once the form is filled out correctly. The report may take a few moments to process. Once it is complete, click on the word “Completed”

Report Queue - My Jobs Refresh Created Job Name Started Ended Status 09/04/2007 Absentee 09/04/2007 1:51 PM 09/04/2007 1:51 PM Completed

Click on

Daily Attendance Codes:

Student Grade Phone Day

Functions

Find teachers who have not taken attendance

Find teachers who have not taken attendance. (have these teachers take attendance)

Re-run the report once all the teachers have taken attendance.

Revise any attendance data. Here’s an example:

Sister Debbie was marked absent. She was really tardy.

Click on the first letter of S Debbie’s last Name “T”

Find S Debbie and click on her name in the list

Once S Debbie is displayed click on the Attendance tab on the left side under Academics

To change her attendance click on today’s date and change the A to a T for Tardy.

You are all done.

(ask S Debbie if you wish to display the attendance on the Daily Bulletin)