Marking attendance is an important part of safeguarding your pupils or students, knowing that those that should be at a session are where they are supposed to be. Additionally, by marking attendance you can gain insight on how successful a club has been, comparing numbers booked to numbers attended..
This article will teach you...
How to record attendance using the clubs feature.
Navigate to Attendance, meals & events > Clubs
Select the club from the Active clubs list then select Manage sessions[1]
By default, today's date will be selected[3] but you can change this by selecting a date from the sessions section[2].
Click Record attendance[4]
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If you'd prefer a paper register to print off, select Print register instead. You may still need to come here and record the attendance digitally to populate reports.
A pop-up window will appear with drop-down menus next to each person. here you can mark them as Not signed in, Present, Late or Absent[5]
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If all people are present you can select the option to Mark all as present[6] to save time
When you have finished click Save[7]
This information will help with safeguarding and also will populate some of the clubs reports to show club usage.
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You may also wish to print the register for your staff to manually capture the attendance. Please refer to ParentPay Clubs - Printing a Clubs Register for more information.