[sims] Online Self Reporting Absence

[SIMSples]

Does anyone have a solution for online reporting of Absences (ideally that could then be vetted/approved and update SIMS Register) ?

 

(Wouldn't it be great if it could be done from the Parent's logged-on SLG screen ?)

[vikpaw]

Not sure what you want? A report on general absence, or specific absent reporting for the day, e.g. morning alerts.

Schoolcomms and Groupcall do this, firing off email and SMS to parents with optional feedback to update SIMS attendance.

[SIMSples]

I see the problem with using the word 'report'... maybe 'notify' would be better:

 

What I am after is for Parents to be able to log-in and notify ('report-to') the school that their child will be absent on a day, in a form that will link to the child's SIMS Register [having been reviewed by a member of staff - either school office or the first-period registrant] rather than waiting until the school is open and overloading admin/queuing the phones.

 

In an ideal world, this would be input from the Parents' SLG dashboard screen, so it would be a TWO-way communication hub between School-Parent (and already identity-verified), but it might be that there is a good Partner or third-party solution already out there. Then to make that parental communication automatically apparent/visible in SIMS.

 

The objective is to make parentally-notified absences apparent to classroom teachers as early as start of first-registration in the morning, AND to reduce administration overload with phoned-in notifications of absence and manual changes to registers. Real unauthorised absences can then be identified more quickly and targetted parents notified that their child has not arrived (e.g. SIMS InTouch).

[matt40k]

Go get a demo from @Schoolcomms like @vikpaw said. Does exactly that and is in use in over 2,000 schools