[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":229},["ShallowReactive",2],{"release-2026-08":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":216,"description":217,"draft":218,"extension":219,"meta":220,"navigation":221,"ogImage":222,"path":223,"seo":224,"stem":225,"summary":226,"version":227,"__hash__":228},"releases\u002Freleases\u002F2026-08.md","August 2026: The attendance workspace, staff clock-in and leave",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":203},"minimark",[9,14,47,50,53,57,64,102,105,109,116,119,122,126,129,132,136,143,163,170,174,180,186,190,193,196,200],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"one-page-for-attendance","One page for attendance",[15,16,17,18,22,23,22,26,22,29,32,33,36,37,40,41,46],"p",{},"Marking a register, looking up a pupil's record and reading the term's trends were three separate\nplaces. They are now six tabs on one page: ",[19,20,21],"strong",{},"Overview",", ",[19,24,25],{},"Register",[19,27,28],{},"Students",[19,30,31],{},"Staff",",\n",[19,34,35],{},"Analytics"," and ",[19,38,39],{},"Settings",". Your old links still work and land on the right tab. See\n",[42,43,45],"a",{"href":44},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fattendance","Attendance",".",[15,48,49],{},"Overview is today, and Analytics is the term. That is deliberately two tabs: the question at half\npast eight is which classes have not been marked yet, and the question at half term is which\nFridays a class has been losing.",[15,51,52],{},"Opening the page does not need every attendance permission. A class teacher who can take a register\ngets the register and a pupil's history; an office administrator who handles staff hours gets the\nstaff tab and nothing else. Each tab checks for itself.",[10,54,56],{"id":55},"staff-clock-in-from-their-own-phone","Staff clock in from their own phone",[15,58,59,60,46],{},"Staff clock in and out on the mobile app, and the platform checks they are at the school when they\ndo. See ",[42,61,63],{"href":62},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fstaff-attendance","Staff Attendance",[65,66,67,74,84,90,96],"ul",{},[68,69,70,73],"li",{},[19,71,72],{},"Their own phone, and only theirs."," Each member of staff sets up their own device, and no two\naccounts at your school can share one. That is what stops a single phone clocking in three people,\nwhich is the thing that actually happens where only location is checked, and it is not something a\nschool can switch off. A second phone waits for an administrator to approve it, and you set how\nmany one person may hold for staff carrying a work handset as well as their own.",[68,75,76,79,80,83],{},[19,77,78],{},"Your school's location."," Set a pin and a radius under ",[19,81,82],{},"Attendance → Settings",", or stand at\nthe school and capture it. A clock-in from outside is refused, and the refusal is logged, so a pin\nin the wrong place shows up as a pattern rather than as one complaint at a time.",[68,85,86,89],{},[19,87,88],{},"Checks you cannot switch off."," A location reading too vague to prove anything is refused, so is\na device reporting a faked one, and the time is stamped by the server rather than taken from the\nphone. Without those the rest would not mean much. The location radius is the one check a school\nchooses, which suits a school whose staff move between sites.",[68,91,92,95],{},[19,93,94],{},"A day is worked out, not typed in."," Every punch is kept exactly as it was made, and hours,\nlateness and whether somebody is on site now are read from them. A correction is another punch,\nnever an edit, so the record of the morning stays the record of the morning.",[68,97,98,101],{},[19,99,100],{},"Nobody is tracked."," The app asks for location only while it is open and you are clocking in,\nand asks for nothing in the background. That is a decision rather than an oversight, and it is\nenforced in the app's own build.",[15,103,104],{},"An administrator can also clock somebody in on their behalf, which is what covers a flat battery or\na phone left at home.",[10,106,108],{"id":107},"staff-leave","Staff leave",[15,110,111,112,46],{},"Somebody at a training course all week is not absent, and a system that calls them absent every\nmorning is one your office stops reading. Record leave as a range of days under a kind your school\nrecognises. See ",[42,113,115],{"href":114},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fstaff-leave","Staff Leave",[15,117,118],{},"Four kinds are there from the start and you can rename them, add your own and disable the ones you do\nnot use. The setting that matters on each is whether it counts as a working day: official duty at an\nexamination centre is not an absence, while sick leave is, and marking the difference keeps the\nright days out of every absence figure.",[15,120,121],{},"There is no request-and-approve queue. An administrator records that somebody is away, the same way\nthey record everything else here.",[10,123,125],{"id":124},"the-morning-message","The morning message",[15,127,128],{},"Each school gets one message at its own seven o'clock naming everybody who was absent the day\nbefore. One message, not one per person: eleven notifications on a bad Monday tell your office\nnothing the first did not, and nobody is notified that they were themselves marked absent. Absence\nhere means no clock-in on a working\nday nobody was excused from, so recorded leave silences it and a closure on your calendar silences\nit for everybody.",[15,130,131],{},"Staff who have not clocked in also get one reminder in the morning, at a time you set. It is a\nclock rather than a location, and the wording says so.",[10,133,135],{"id":134},"documents-you-can-print","Documents you can print",[15,137,138,139,46],{},"Three, and each is read on screen before it goes near a printer. See\n",[42,140,142],{"href":141},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fattendance-documents","Attendance Documents",[65,144,145,151,157],{},[68,146,147,150],{},[19,148,149],{},"A class register sheet"," with a signature column, for the days the power or the network is not\ncooperating.",[68,152,153,156],{},[19,154,155],{},"An absence report"," for the whole school over any period.",[68,158,159,162],{},[19,160,161],{},"A timesheet per member of staff",", as a PDF: one person, days down the page, with arrival,\ndeparture, hours worked and the totals at the foot.",[15,164,165,166,169],{},"Beside the timesheet there is a ",[19,167,168],{},"payroll export",", which is a different thing and a spreadsheet\nrather than a document: every stretch of time worked with its exact instants, for one person or for\neverybody, for feeding into a payroll system. It is not offered for reading on screen, because\nnobody reads a payroll feed.",[10,171,173],{"id":172},"analytics-gained-two-panels","Analytics gained two panels",[15,175,176,179],{},[19,177,178],{},"Attendance by weekday"," lays out the rate for each day of the week, for the school and then per\nclass, worst attended first. A term rate averages the week flat and this does not, so a Friday a\nclass has been losing since February reads as a Friday. A day with no register at all is drawn\ndifferently from a day nobody came, because they are not the same thing.",[15,181,182,185],{},[19,183,184],{},"Staff punctuality"," reports how often each member of staff arrived before your late threshold,\nwith the window, the threshold and the number of staff measured all stated above the figures.",[10,187,189],{"id":188},"on-the-phone","On the phone",[15,191,192],{},"Clocking in and out is the app's job, and so is a member of staff's own record: the day so far, the\nmonth behind it, and their own timesheet. The app tells them which checks passed before they press\nanything, so a refusal at the gate is not the first they hear of a problem.",[15,194,195],{},"A member of staff can also read their own timesheet on the phone and save or share it from there.\nRunning the rest of attendance stays on the web: the day board, the device approval queue, leave,\nthe school's location, the register sheet, the absence report and anybody else's timesheet are all\nthere.",[10,197,199],{"id":198},"available-on-every-plan","Available on every plan",[15,201,202],{},"Including the free one. There is nothing to upgrade to and nothing to switch on beyond setting your\nschool's location.",{"title":204,"searchDepth":205,"depth":205,"links":206},"",3,[207,209,210,211,212,213,214,215],{"id":12,"depth":208,"text":13},2,{"id":55,"depth":208,"text":56},{"id":107,"depth":208,"text":108},{"id":124,"depth":208,"text":125},{"id":134,"depth":208,"text":135},{"id":172,"depth":208,"text":173},{"id":188,"depth":208,"text":189},{"id":198,"depth":208,"text":199},"2026-08-13","What shipped in 1410SMS in August 2026: the tabbed attendance workspace, staff clock-in with device and location checks, staff leave, the morning absence digest, printable attendance documents and monthly timesheets.",false,"md",{},true,null,"\u002Freleases\u002F2026-08",{"title":5,"description":217},"releases\u002F2026-08","Attendance rebuilt as one six-tab workspace, staff clocking in from their own phone against your school's location, staff leave, printable register and absence sheets, and a timesheet per person.","2026.08","upQxVE0ISuvtlDQShhdf-V0PE2Bna1fBUFUdNWxWlYQ",1787681164011]