Changing the detention attendance drop down

[ieuan99]

Currently we use Sims for our detentions as a whole school.

 

We use the attendance drop down to note if they have 'attended' or 'not attended' else they remain 'Not recorded'.

 

We'd like to add in a choice for 'Absent from School' as this is becoming increasing an issue - not that the pupil is failing to attend but that they are given a detention for the next day and then they are not in school and although a new detention is allocated for them, currently we are logging that they did 'not attend' just the same a pupil who should have attended since they were in school, but chose not to - which requires additional sanctions.

 

I've tried looking on 'Look ups' but cant see this as something to change - can anyone help?

 

Thanks

[3s-gtech]

I believe this is hard coded at present - we used to use the SIMS detention system but found it too inflexible in the end. It may be worth putting in to Capita as a change request though.