If a student is marked absent in your MIS for the morning or afternoon, SchoolsBuddy can show this in the MIS Absent column of your activity registers. Staff taking the register can then mark the student as Excused.
For staff taking activity registers who want to see absences recorded in the school MIS.
How it works
If a student is marked Absent in your MIS at the start of the day or for the afternoon, SchoolsBuddy can bring this into your registers. It appears in the MIS Absent column.
The staff member taking the register can see whether a student cannot attend the activity and mark them as Excused.
Use Excused for known absences. Absent marks can be sent to the staff member with the Absentee Alerts role so they can investigate quickly.
Example
This example is for an afternoon activity. Three students were absent from MIS registration: one in the morning, one all day and one in the afternoon.
| Student | MIS Absent shows |
|---|---|
| Absent in the morning (possibly for a dentist appointment), but back in time for afternoon registration, so able to attend the activity | AM |
| Off sick all day | AM / PM |
| Had permission to leave at lunchtime to travel, so missed afternoon registration | PM |
Supported systems
We support absence mark updates for ManageBac+, iSAMS, PowerSchool, SIMS and most systems synced through Wonde. Contact us for more information.
We only import Homeroom Attendance from ManageBac+. If a student is marked absent in ManageBac+, only AM shows on the SchoolsBuddy register.
Setting up MIS absences from iSAMS
Setup is optional and you can do it later.
- Ask iSAMS support (helpdesk@isams.com) for REST API access for SchoolsBuddy.
- Send SchoolsBuddy the Client ID, Client Secret and the IDs of your AM and PM registers through the support form.
You can import several registration rules, but each rule can only be used once a day, for either the morning or the afternoon.
Setting up MIS absences from PowerSchool
PowerSchool sends attendance to SchoolsBuddy daily by SFTP, using PowerSchool Auto-Send.
- Request SFTP accounts from SchoolsBuddy Support.
- Send us your attendance codes with their descriptions, and mark which ones count as absent.
Students then show as Absent in the MIS column of your registers.
You can also upload student photos with the same SFTP accounts, once or whenever they change. Name each file with the student ID.