This article is for Administrators and Teachers
Students absence details are listed on three tabs:
Absent Notes
Unexplained Absences
Absence Explanations
View absence notes
Login to uEducateUs and expand your browser window so the left-hand main menu is visible.
Click the 3-bar hamburger menu at the top left if you can’t see the menu.
Click Attendance > Absent Notes.
Manage absent note types.
Absent note types need to be created before absent notes can be added to the system.
Click on Manage types.
Click on New Absent Note Type.
Name the absent note type in the Title field.
Select the Attendance code to apply to attendance for the absent notes that use this type.
Select whether Parents can use this absent note type. If no is selected, Parents will not see this absent note type.
Click Add.
Click on the cog wheel icon next to an existing absent note type to Edit, Disable or Delete.
Note that absent note types that have been used cannot be deleted.
Filter absent notes
You can display a subset of results with the page filter.
Click Filter.
Choose one or more filter criteria:
Type of absence
Dates of absence
Enter a student name.
Click Apply filter.
Click Clear filter to restore the default view.
Create absent note
Create an absent note for selected students
Click Create absent note.
Enter one or more the student names.
Configure the note
Select the type of absence from the list.
Choose the attendance code for the student absence.
Choose start and end dates.
Choose periods
Add a comment
Add a comment if required
Save and close
Click Save.
Edit absence note
Click Attendance > Absent notes.
Click 🔽 >Edit.
Make changes
Click Save.
Delete absent note
Deleting an absent note for a past date will not affect existing attendance rolls.
Absent notes cannot be recovered once deleted.
Click Attendance > Absent notes.
Click 🔽 > Delete.
Click Delete on the confirmation message.
View unexplained absences
Students marked with 500 - unexplained are listed under Unexplained Absences.
Click Attendance > Unexplained Absences
Filter unexplained absences
You can display a subset of results with the page filter.
Click Filter.
Choose Start and end date.
Enter student name.
Click Apply filter.
Click Clear filter to return to the default view.
Edit unexplained absence
You can change the code on an unexplained absence, which will update the linked attendance roll.
Click Attendance > Unexplained Absences.
Click View for the student.
Select an alternate absence code.
View absence explanations
Absence explanations are gathered by the uEducateUs Kiosk and entered by the parent/guardian.
These can be used to determine the status of an unexplained absence.
Click Attendance > Absence Explanations.
Filter absence explanations
You can display a subset of results with the page filter.
Click Filter.
Use the following criteria:
Choose dates.
Enter student and/or parent names.
Enter absence type and/or attendance type.
Enter period names
Click Apply filter.
Click Clear filter to restore the default view.