Product Brief

Attendance
Student Management System

Skyward’s Attendance is the easiest way to make sure all your

students are accounted for and to report on any inconsistencies
in your district’s or students’ records.

Complete. Intuitive. The most robust Attendance

software for your school district. Keeping track of all your students has
If you work in a district - small, medium, never been easier.
or large - you need software that’s easy
Skyward Attendance tracks, reports on,
to use and can cross reference data to
and keeps historical records of all your
get you the reports you need. Skyward
students’ attendance actions. When
software solutions are a marvel of
teachers enter their class records, they
simplicity. Our users say they’re
will be submitted to the main office Teachers have the option to take
“imaginative,” “intuitive,” and “vastly
automatically. attendance by seating chart. It’s a
superior to any product on the market.” great way to learn students’ names
When used with Family Access, at the beginning of the year.
Skyward software offers advanced
Attendance can update parents by email
capabilities to meet your district goals,
if their child has missed a class.
create accurate state reports, and
improve your district-wide efficiency. The built-in attendance graphs are a
From monitoring student progress to great way to present your attendance
analyzing spending, our solution ensures information at a board meeting.
your goals are achieved and your
satisfaction is met.
Feature Benefits
Electronic attendance submission • Accurate attendance counts are sent directly to the main
office.
• Attendance may be submitted using Skyward’s Educator
Access+ or Pocket PaC.
• Create seating charts for accurate attendance taking.
Integrates with Skyward Family • Parent or guardian receives immediate notification of a
Access student’s absence or tardiness through Family Access.
• Parent or guardian can sign up to receive email notification
if their student has been absent for the day.
• Parent or guardian can use Family Access to send
absence notifications from home or work directly to school
office staff, then receive an email notice when complete.

Notifies parents with email, phone
call, or letter if child is absent
Mass add by class, activity, field
trip, or graduation year
• Use built-in poor attendance letter writer to generate
notification letters to be sent home with students.
• Parameters for the generation of notification letters are
defined by each building.
• Provides a convenient way to submit attendance for a
large group of students.

Saves each student’s attendance • If there is ever a question, the transaction file records
history and/or displays all student record revisions, the modifier,
date of revision, and original value. “The many tools in
Additional options for entering • Attendance can be entered by scanning, wanding, and Skyward, such as seating
attendance tri-coding. charts, mass entering
• Provides a quick, hands-free method of processing grades, comments and
attendance. notes for students and
• Enter period or daily attendance. parents, and athletic
Attendance graphing • Illustrates accurate attendance information for the entire reporting have really
district, one building, or an individual student. provided me with more
• A great visual aid for school board meetings. time for the planning of
lessons.”
Attendance verification reporting • Identify patterns in student attendance that are
Bridget Dervin, Dept. Coord.
inconsistent with normal attendance activity. Westmont CUSD 201, IL

Time-In/Out entries on absence • Office staff can record the time that a student leaves
records school early or arrives late on the individual day and in
absence records.

Attendance office visits • Conveniently record student office visits for attendance
inquiries.
• Ability to add attendance notes.

To learn more, visit www.skyward.com, or contact your local office.

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Skyward, Inc. reserves the right to make changes to any products and services herein at any time without notice.
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