Course Attendance Reasons must be setup in
Setup > >System Tables >> Code Tables before they can be used in Courses.
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The field settings are:
- Attendance Reason - this is a short description to appear online in the patrons' attendance record. Examples: 'away' or 'sick'
- Expanded Description - is a longer description for lists for the attendance reason. Examples:
- 'cannot attend - personal reason' or
- 'caught the current flu going around'
- set the status to be active or in active
- indicate that the attendance reason as being patron usable. If this flag is set, then a patron can use this excuse to set their own attendance to a class within a course using the online module. For example, if a student could not attend one day in a drama class, ballet class, swim class or pilates session they can indicate why they cannot come so that the instructor knows who will be present that day.
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Staff can use all reasons that are active, including those that are marked not patron usable
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For information about editing values in Code Tables, click here.
To see where and how Course Attendance Reason is used in Courses, click here.