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How to Check Student Attendance over Different Periods of Time

By Paolo Dona — Aug 06, 2010

NiftySchool allows you to check student attendance percentages. This figure checks the number of attended hours against the expected attendance, so that you can spot students whose attendance drops below a certain threshold.

By default, the attendance page computes the percentage based on all of the student’s current and past enrolments. If the student enrolled years ago and then returned to the school recently, all of his enrolments will be taken into account.

In these cases, what you may really wish to see is the attendance over a specific period of time, such as, the last month or the current enrolment period.

We’ve added a date filter to the attendance page so you can easily do that.

When you filter by date, the calendar will only show the selected period and all of the figures will be updated accordingly.