Class Teacher
Marks the register
Their own stream's registers, morning and afternoon.
- Mark, confirm and close the register
- Follow up absences in their class
- A reminder at 09:30 if the register is still open
Why this module
Paper registers tell you who was missing,
a week too late.
Filling in the register is the easy part. The problem is everything after it: adding up the numbers, telling the parent, and remembering to ask why.
- 1
Registers nobody adds up
Sheets sit in a drawer, so today's school-wide picture takes a morning to build.
- 2
Parents find out last
A guardian hears about an absence days later, if at all.
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Reasons go unrecorded
Why a student was away lives in someone's memory, not on their record.
What you can do
From the morning register
to the reason for every absence.
Class teachers mark, the office follows up, and guardians stay informed, without anyone copying numbers between books.
Registers are ready before the bell
Every stream gets a morning and an afternoon register on school days, generated for you, alongside registers for teachers and staff.
Mark the class in a few taps.Mark All Present, then change the exceptions: late, absent, early leave or activity leave.
The teacher signs it off.Confirming records who confirmed it and when. Closing locks it and produces a PDF register sheet.
Unfinished registers get a nudge.A class teacher whose register is still open at 09:30 gets a reminder.
Guardians hear about absences straight away
Marking a student absent or late notifies their guardians the moment it's saved, by SMS and email unless you choose otherwise.
Messages go to contacts you already hold.Guardian numbers come from the student record, so nobody keeps a separate phone list.
Arrival and departure texts, if you want them.Turn on check-in and check-out SMS and guardians hear when their child arrives and leaves.
Activity leave stays quiet.A student away at a fixture or on a trip is marked activity leave: no alert, no follow-up.
Every absence becomes a case, not a mark
Absent, late and early-leave marks open a follow-up on their own, so nothing depends on someone remembering to ask.
Record the reason and the evidence.Note what the guardian said and attach a medical note or permission letter.
One note for a whole group.A broken-down bus or a flu outbreak? Resolve every affected follow-up at once.
Nothing is lost.Resolved follow-ups stay on the record, with who resolved them and when.
Patterns are visible, not buried
Every student, teacher and staff member has an attendance history, and the reports add it up for you.
A term at a glance.The profile heatmap shows every school day coloured by status, with the full history below.
Reports in PDF or Excel.Class attendance by stream, staff and teacher attendance, and absenteeism for any date range.
Guardians see the same record.Their read-only view shows their child's attendance history and the status of any follow-up.
Who uses this module
Attendance is everyone's
first job of the day.
Each role sees what their job needs and nothing else.
Principal / Director
Sees the whole school
Manages attendance across every stream, plus the teacher and staff registers.
- Notified when a teacher or staff member is absent
- Class, staff and absenteeism reports
- Every follow-up, and who resolved it
Guardian
Knows where their child is
A read-only view of their own children's attendance.
- Absent and late alerts by SMS and email
- A heatmap and the full attendance history
- Arrival and departure texts, if the school turns them on
A term, start to finish
Where the module sits
in your calendar
Before term opens
Streams in place
Open the streams you run and assign their class teachers. Registers follow automatically.
Every school day
Mark and confirm
Registers appear each morning and afternoon. Teachers mark, confirm and close them.
Same day
Follow up
Absences reach guardians at once, and the office works through the follow-up list.
End of term
Report
Pull the term's class, staff and absenteeism reports, in PDF or Excel.
Built to work together.
Attendance Management uses the core school information already maintained in Elimu Bora, so your team isn't entering the same data twice.
User & Identity
Students, teachers, staff and guardians, each with their roles.
Attendance Management needs it for: who sits on each register, and which guardian is told.
Curriculum & Structure
Grade levels and the streams your school runs.
Attendance Management needs it for: one student register per stream, owned by its class teacher.
Academic Years & Terms
Terms pre-loaded from the Ministry calendar, one active at a time.
Attendance Management needs it for: registers are only generated inside an active term.
Attendance Management
Daily registers for students, teachers and staff, with a follow-up for every absence.
Reads all three, so the right register is waiting for the right teacher every school day.
Attendance Management FAQs
Questions, answered
What schools ask about Attendance Management before they switch.
No. Registers are generated for every stream at the start of each weekday session in an active term. For a weekend event or a newly added stream, a register can be created by hand.
When a student is marked absent or late, their guardians are notified straight away. By default that's an SMS, an email and an in-app notification, and the school can change which channels each notification uses.
An optional SMS telling guardians their child has arrived at school, from the morning register, or has left, from the afternoon register. You choose it when you sign up, and it's priced per student.
Yes. There is a school-wide teachers register and a staff register every session, and leadership is notified when a member of staff is marked absent.
Rows stay editable until the register is closed. A closed register can be reopened, corrected and confirmed again.
No. Guardians see their child's attendance read-only. To explain an absence they contact the school, and staff record the reason on the follow-up.
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