Using Seating Charts To Take Attendance in Blackbaud SIS

Once teachers have created a seating chart for a class, they can use it to take class attendance in Faculty view.

 Instructions

1. From the My Day menu, select Schedule & Performance.

2. Under Schedule, find a class and select the chart icon beside it to open the seating chart in a pop-out window.

   Note: If a teacher has not created a seating chart for a class yet, the chart icon will not appear.

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3. Beneath each student's name, select an attendance code. By default, every student is marked “Present”. Any students who have not been assigned a place on the seating chart will automatically be marked present.

4. Optional: If you have marked a student anything other than Present, enter an attendance comment below the attendance code. Attendance comments are for internal use and will only be visible to the teacher and school administrators.

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5. When you have finished taking attendance for the class, select Save and close.