[sims] Limiting Register codes & missing student alerts

[panosthegreat]

At the moment everyone in the school that can access SIMS class registers (classroom staff, leadership, admin, school nurse...) is given the same list of codes they can enter (/= present, A=Authorised Absence, L=Late etc...).

 

I'd like to restrict teaching staff to just entering present, absent and late, and give the other groups access to the entire list of codes. This should prevent teachers authorising student absences. Could anyone point me in the right direction to do this?

 

 

And secondly, slightly related, is it possible to have some kind of trigger warning to the class teacher if a grade looks wrong (e.g. if someone is in for Periods 1-3 and then absent Period 4)? or do we just have to rely on teachers noticing that themselves and sending out a missing student alert?

 

Thanks

[bfelton]

In Tools - Setups - Attendance Setup - Codes - Maintain Codes if an attendance code is marked as "basic" it will be available for teaching staff.

Your second question is a tricky one because the idea of "wrong" is quite varied so would be difficult to program.

[panosthegreat]

Thanks for the quick reply. I suspected there'd be too many rules to program in for 'wrong' alerts. We'll just have to do that manually

 

Will try out the basic method, hopefully it improves accuracy. Teachers were getting confused with too many options

[bobsmith]

in "Edit marks" there's a pre-built filter button for students with ANY "N" codes today - this will be your starting point for flagging up any kids going missing.