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Set your tardy rule and what a mid-day checkout marks
A screen recording of Pearspark doing exactly this in a sample school, and the same 8 steps written out below in the labels you'll see on screen.
How to set your tardy rule and what a mid-day checkout marks
- 1Click Settings under Administration in the sidebar
- 2Click Attendance in the section list down the left
- 3In "Tardies that make an absence", type your handbook's number (three, say) — or leave it blank if your school has no such rule
- 4Under "Which tardies count", "Count only unexcused tardies" starts ticked, so a called-ahead dentist appointment doesn't count — untick it to count every tardy
- 5Under "Families can report an absence", "Let families report an absence from the portal" starts ticked and gives parents the Report an absence button — untick it and the button goes away
- 6Under "A mid-day checkout marks the rest of the day", pick the mark the office's sign-out should leave on the classes after it (a mark a teacher already entered is never changed)
- 7Click Save — only the Attendance section saves; the page comes back on School profile with "Settings saved."
- 8Click Attendance again and read the "In force now:" line at the foot of the card — it states the saved rule, and appears once a tardy number is set
Part of Attendance, schedule & calendar
A tap per kid on attendance, bell periods and breaks behind the schedule, and one school calendar every family and student sees in their portal.
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