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Attendance records are records that indicate an individual's or an asset’s inclusion in a particular Session, most typically a class session. These records are various record types of the Event object.
These are the items that can be associated with a session and the associated Event their event record types :
Students = - Session Student
Staff = - Session Staff
Locations = - Session Location
Resources = - Session Resource.
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For example, in a session where there are 20 students, a teacher and a classroom, there will be 20 Session Student, a 1 Session Staff and a 1 Session Location Event event records required.
Note that both Locations and Resources are types of Assets.
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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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