[Progresso] Attendance officer role

[Ditto]

We recently had an attendance officer appointed. There doesn't appear to be a pre-existing attendance role in progresso, so I will be building from scratch. Key is going to be setting up the dashboard. I'm interested to hear if any other progresso schools have someone in this role and if you have recommendations on widgets or reports that help. All I'm hearing right now is 'Why can't I have SIMS, everything is so much easier!'. Even the new head has said he wants to move to SIMS with a local install. Of course, neither have had any training since arriving in the last few months, bar a few minutes from me

[djrscally]

We have this role. I have a sort of attendance overview dashboard thingy that gives the attendance figures with a fortnightly trend chart, a slicer and a link to the full summary report that they use. Want the .rdls? They will also need the "Roll Call Absences" so they can send messages to parents of absent students and the "Lessons not Taken" one so they can see which teachers didn't do their registers yet.

 

The "everything is so much easier in SIMS" thing settled a bit for our staff when we built a widget giving them quick links to other aspects of Progresso so they didn't have to go through the whole menu structure to get there, like this:

 

 

That's kinda geared towards teachers because our attendance officer doesn't particularly complain about stuff being more difficult in Progresso, but maybe something similar would help - I gather there's something like that built into SIMS that maybe they're missing.

[Ditto]

That would be absolutely amazing if you could forward the rdls. Let me know if it's easier for me to send my email address via PM so you can send or perhaps a Google share? I've already got the Roll call absences and Lessons not taken and a few others, but I think you are right the everything in one place widget would help to pry the blinkers away! I'm also looking to add one for persistent absence. Is the widget an also an RDL report or are you using the HTML thingy - it's been a while since I dabbled with that but happy to give it another go. You sure earn a virtual beer but I couldn't find an emoji for that, so this will hopefully this will do:tea:

[djrscally]

That would be absolutely amazing if you could forward the rdls. Let me know if it's easier for me to send my email address via PM so you can send or perhaps a Google share? I've already got the Roll call absences and Lessons not taken and a few others, but I think you are right the everything in one place widget would help to pry the blinkers away! I'm also looking to add one for persistent absence. Is the widget an also an RDL report or are you using the HTML thingy - it's been a while since I dabbled with that but happy to give it another go. You sure earn a virtual beer but I couldn't find an emoji for that, so this will hopefully this will do:tea:

That's an rdl too. Lemme collate them for you then. Virtual coffee is almost as good as virtual beer!