Supplemental Attendance Programs are District-owned and include basic data and a few options. The options will apply to all sessions for the program. To add a Program, click the mouse on the Add button on the page. The cursor will display in the Program ID field. Enter all the Program information and click the mouse on the Insert button when completed.



  • Program ID Enter a Program ID. There is a 6-characters maximum. This is a required field.
  • Program Name Enter a Program Name. This is a required field.
  • Attendance Type codes can be set up from the Update Code Table form for field ATP.TY. This is an optional field.
    • The fixed ATP.TY code ELO Tutorial should only be used for reporting additional Operational Minutes for Texas PEIMS reporting. See SAAH 3.8 Note for Calendar Requirements for Funding. Texas Only.
  • Seats Maximum number of students for this Program. This is an optional field
  • Grade Range Low and High grade for this Program
  • Tag when a Program is tagged as inactive new sessions cannot be added
  • Start Date/ End Date Optional fields that ensure attendance is not entered outside of the date range for all sessions with this Program. Session date range will default to the Program date range but can be changed.
  • User Fields Dropdown codes can be set up in the Update Code Table form  
  • Notes Comments detailing the program can be entered.
  • Allow Walk-Ins This option allows any student in the school to walk into a session of this program without being scheduled into the session. Leaving the option turned off means that the student must be scheduled into the session to attend a session in this program.
  • Student Self-Sign-In When this option is enabled students will be able to sign themselves into the session.
  • Attendance Collection Method
    • Only allow teachers to mark a student as Present or Absent. Start and End times will be set based upon the session’s start and end time. Start and End times cannot be edited with this option on, as this option automatically restrict the times for the students.
    • Allow teachers to modify each student’s start and end time. When a student is marked Present, the system will save the session start and end time but will allow teachers to edit them.
  • Restrict Times will allow users to either limit the data entry to the defined session times or allow for entry times before and after the session times. This option applies to the Teacher Supplemental Attendance page (daily and weekly). 
    • When this setting is enabled (ATP.RST = 1), teachers can ONLY enter start/end times that fall within the session's defined start/end time window (however they are not restricted on when they can enter this information unless the Portal Options for Supplemental Attendance retricts them to only entering on the day of the session).  If they try to enter times outside the defined start/end time window for the session, an error wil display "Invalid time(s) for this Session".   
      •  In the example below, the initial entry will be accepted as it's within the times for the session; however, that second entry will receive the error message as the teacher is attempting to log a start time for the student that's before the start time of the session. The same error message will be presented if the teacher attempt to log an end time for the student that is after the session's end time.
    • When this setting is not enabled (ATP.RST = 0), teacher can enter ANY times for the students, not restricted to the session window.  The "Start Time Now" button is always available regardless of current time.
    • Important Note: Administrators are never restricted by this setting - they can always enter any times they want.