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Once a session’s attendance details have been created they can be maintained to meet a variety of requirements. For example, if a Session has a replacement teacher then the Edit Session window will cause a new Session Staff record to be created for the replacing teacher and it will update the corresponding Session Staff record for the teacher being replaced to reflect this.
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So totoo, the Add Student button on the Mark Roll screen will create a Session Student record for that student in the particular Session and automatically mark them as present.
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