Revised 9/21/2018
This area updates attendance
records for reports. Make sure enrollment records have been built prior to
refreshing Attendance Analysis for the first time of the new school year.
For instructions for Student Enrollment Processing
Refresh Attendance Analysis needs to be run before running
the attendance analysis reports, grade reports, and some state reports. This
should be run once a month or once a quarter depending on the reports you are
running.
1. Click on Processing Center |Refresh Attendance Analysis.
2. Select a School Location.
3. Select a Beginning and Ending Date.
4. Click on Ignore Half Day Absences if they should not count in absence totals. (Note: this typically applies only to Michigan clients for their General Collection report.)
5. Choose the fields in the box on the left that you want to use for subtotals on the statistics report and move them to the right box by clicking on the button.
o Note: Good fields to use are grade year, homeroom, and sex.
o Fields can be removed from the right hand box by clicking on them and clicking on the button.
6. Select Refresh Attendance Analysis (This could take some time. Don’t exit the screen.)
7. Click OK when the message displays "Refresh of Attendance Analysis is complete."
8. To run the Attendance Analysis reports follow these steps.
o From the program menu, select Reports |Student Reports.
o In box 1, click on Attendance Analysis.
o In box 2, click on Attendance Analysis Statistics or Attendance Analysis.
o Click to view the report.
o Complete the Selection request items on the Options page that displays – School Location, Months or Terms to be shown on the report, etc. and click OK to preview the report.
It is advised that both of these reports be run each month to be available for the auditors.