How to Locate Discrepancies in Attendance Widget and Why They Occur - Skyward Districts – School Data Solutions

The attendance widget is an excellent tool to determine if students have difficulty attending school. It displays daily, weekly, and year-to-date absences and indicates excused absences, unexcused absences, tardies, and classes attended. However, discrepancies may be encountered between the data displayed in this widget and attendance for which students are held accountable.

One of the best ways to identify discrepancies is to have school district Skyward personnel who are knowledgeable about student schedules and attendance procedures in each school review the attendance widget for a single student in courses that tend to have attendance discrepancies. Some common examples of courses that tend to have attendance discrepancies include: running start holding courses, zero period, advisory courses, rotating schedules, and block schedules.

Below are the two Skyward menu paths to the data that SDS uses to count a course or class(section/meet) as take attendance and will cause the period/day to be populated with data (i.e. A, E, O, T, Checkmark) in the attendance widget. (SDS cannot advise districts on Skyward configurations. The district should consult their Skyward District Contact before making changes. This information is being provided as a courtesy).

Skyward Menu Path: WS\OF\CS\BC\CM\CM, search for the course, edit the course, observe the Keep Attendance checkbox - This will effect all classes(sections/meets) attached to this course.

Skyward Menu Path: WS\OF\CS\BC\CM\CM, search for the course, expand the course, expand the section details, edit the meet, observe the days checkboxes marked for Attendance in the Meet Pattern - This will effect this class(section/meet) only.

School districts with a SIS other than Skyward, contact SDS to find the correct attendance logic.

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