I watched it Thursday. Good stuff!
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Hi Kevin, Last week was our first week in the Hybrid model. We are allowing our teachers to use the Quick Attendance Notes. However, the attendance clerks have voiced concerns over the red "comment balloon" showing up on every student's daily attendance. Their suggestion would be to not include the Quick Attendance Notes balloon to appear or to use a different color balloon to distinguish between the teacher notes and attendance clerk notes. They would like to see the balloon in blue. Is that possible? Thank you!
HI Kevin, We are getting ready to transition to the hybrid model for the 2nd quarter. We are training our staff on the new class calendars today. One director has asked if the MST.DY can stay as MTT if the meeting days is checked as true for the dash in attendance via the MM,MT,MW,MR,MF? Thank you! Kelly
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@Kelly - We have not received any specific guidance regarding discipline or suspensions, so I would contact CALPADS on that item. If you get some good information, feel free to share with us at support@aeries.com.
HI Kevin, What are you hearing from CalPads on how teachers should enter attendance for a student who is suspended from a class period during distant learning. Would it still be considered an "In School Suspension" even though the student is at home due to distant learning? If we tag them with an "S" in attendance than we need a ADS documented. Normally for "In House" we use a TSUS code in ADS and an "H" for In House in Attendance. Do we maintain the same code system even though we are in a distant learning program...for now?
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We also just published some FAQs regarding weekly engagement.
In addition to the latest California SB 98 Update regarding daily participation and weekly engagement, we created a new article specifically describing Attendance Recommendations for 2020-21 school year in more detail.
In response to recent information disseminated from the California Department of Education concerning the accounting of Daily Participation and Weekly Engagement during the 2020-2021 school year for Online, In Person, and Hybrid Instruction of students, Aeries is being enhanced with new features including the ability to produce a Weekly Engagement Report. We invite you read about these upcoming changes or register for a webinar on the topic. Because of this, we have also modified our Hybrid Procedures to Consider document.
This new report, similar to the Weekly Attendance Report, would include information regarding attendance notes, as I know some others have asked about here in this forum.
Is there a way to check if attendance notes are missing? I'm able to run a query for attendance notes but it will only give me results for attendance notes that have been entered into the system. Is there a way to check if a teacher missed a day and did not enter attendance notes? This will help verify we have record of daily engagement.
Can the attendance notes be added to the weekly attendance report by teacher? This would complete the report.
Chrissie, thank you for your feedback. We are attending our bi-weekly CALPADS vendor call this morning and are planning to discuss this.
In regards to the scheduling sessions being held…Brandi Jauregui stated today on the CALPADS Q&A call that LEAs should hold off on creating multiple sections to identify the type of learning the student is receiving (i.e. AM session, PM session, synchronous or asynchronous). Guidance is being decided and will be released by CDE early next week.
I know when we got our digital attendance process approved by the state we had to set our previous days that teachers take attendance to 0. If we change that do we have to get that approved by the state?
Kevin Praeger
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