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[Guide] Getting Started with SchoolStatus Attend

Anouska Kurer
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Get ready to hit the ground running with SchoolStatus Attend! This comprehensive Getting Started Guide equips you with everything necessary to successfully implement it across your entire school or district.

📚 What's in this guide?

  • Steps for how to log-on to your new account
  • Resources for reviewing your interventions
  • Tutorials on suppressing your interventions
  • Details on how scheduling and closing conferences

 

👩🏻‍💻 Logging in to SchoolStatus Attend is Easy!

  • Head to www.schoolstatus.com and click Log In.
  • You will notice lots of login options for our family of SchoolStatus products. Select Attend to get started!
  • Enter your username and password and click the log in button.

🔎 Review Your Interventions

Step 1: Make note of the current Attendance Through date for reference

  • Head to the Overview page.
  • Make note of the Attendance through date which you can find on the top left of the page.

 

* Remember that the Attendance Through date is the last day attendance is counted in

A2A for the current set of interventions

Step 2: Review Interventions To Be Sent

  • Go to the Interventions page and check which students are about to receive a notification.

Determine if any should not be receiving a notification and verify the dates and type of events that trigger intervention accordingly by clicking the i next to the AS column.

📨 Suppress Your Interventions

Suppression is the conscious decision not to communicate with the parent or

guardian regarding their child’s attendance.

Step 1: Determine which student needs to be suppressed

Look through your list of students in 'To Be Sent' column and verify who should not receive a notification and therefore requires a Suppression.

 

*A letter should only be suppressed if the school has communicated with the parent and knows the reason the student was absent.

Step 2: Select the suppression length

Select one of the three suppression length options:

 

  • This Intervention: Suppresses the intervention this current run.
  • 3 Absences: Suppresses the intervention every run until the student accrues an additional number of absences or equivalent periods.
  • Indefinitely: Suppresses intervention indefinitely. This option is available upon request from your district office.

Step 3: Explain why it happened

Enter a note explaining why you suppressed or extended suppressed the intervention.

 

Note: When you suppress an intervention or leave a note, the icon will turn yellow 💡

indicating that an action has taken place.

 

*When you suppress a student, they will move from the To Be Sent list to the Suppressed tab.

 

📆 Schedule a Conference

Conferences in Attend are triggered as a result of an intervention that was sent.

 

The conference typically represents the initial attempt by the school to meet with the parent in an effort to reduce absences. Once a student is eligible for a conference, the designated attendance staff schedules the conference, and Attend will send an invitation to the parent.

Step 1: Look for the students that are scheduled to have a conference

Go to the Conference page and click the 'Students to be scheduled' tab.

Step 2: Schedule the Conference

Enter the details of the conference. Make sure to include the date, time and location!

 

*If choosing to type information in the 'Message To Parent/Guardian' box on the conference scheduler form, be sure to not include student identifiable information.

 

🚪Close a Conference

Closing a conference represents a documented successful or unsuccessful attempt to intervene in

a student’s attendance habits. A2A provides a means to analyze processes and provide documentation of each attempt.

 

*All students must be assigned a conference status before the conference can be closed.

Step 1: Locate the Conferences that need to be closed

On the conferences page, locate the conference within the 'To Be Closed' tab.

Step 2: Open the Conference details

Open up and view the conference detail pages.

Step 3: Edit the Conference details

Click the Edit button at the top of the page to edit the conference.

Step 4: Confirm each Conference's status

Add a status to each conference.

Step 5: Save and close the Conference box

Save and close the conference.

🔔 Reminders

  • All conferences remain in the 'To Be Conducted' tab until the conference date has passed.
  • Once passed, they move to the 'Conferences To Be Closed'' tab.
  • To close a conference currently located in the 'To Be Conducted' tab, you must edit the date of the conference to a date in the past. Then save the conference before proceeding to give students a conference status.

 

 

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