Day-to-Day
Run attendance, student records, groups, communications and reports day to day.
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Attendance & Registers
Take attendance on web, mobile or at Reception, use QR and RFID scanning and record MIS absences.
- Attendance Registers 🎬
- QR code and RFID scanning not working: attendance troubleshooting
- MIS Absence
- Staff taking attendance for their own groups (via web)
- Taking an Attendance Register (via the Reception tab)
- Staff taking attendance for their own groups (via mobile app)
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Student Information & Tracking
Find students and families: class overviews, guardians, medical information, searching users and deleting students.
- Deleting Students in SchoolsBuddy (only recommended if using manual CSV upload)
- Viewing a Class Overview
- Guardians tab
- Medical Tab
- Searching for users (including deleted users)
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Communications
Message parents, staff and students: email templates, automatic notifications, SMS and app notification troubleshooting.
- Why parents can unsubscribe from SchoolsBuddy emails
- App notifications not arriving: troubleshooting for parents
- Email Templates – Understanding the Use by Module
- Automatic notifications
- Sending Messages From SchoolsBuddy
- Sending Parents an SMS Message
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Groups
Create custom groups and add or remove the staff and students in each group.
- Reception - Creating a Custom Group
- Adding additional Staff to a Group
- Adding/Removing Students to a Group
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Reports
The SchoolsBuddy reports schools use most, with what each numbered report shows.
- Report recipes: the reports schools ask for most
- Where can I access reports?
- Report - What reports are available within SchoolsBuddy
- Reports: using the reports interface
- Report - Transport Reports