Current day attendance notifications

Current day attendance notifications refer to the types of messages or calls you make such as "Jimmy was missing from 8th period today". They are the most common attendance notifications. If you'd like to have us automate your attendance notifications there are a few questions we need answered on a per school basis (because what triggers a message changes from building to building)

What we need for each school:

1. School name/abbreviation
2. Daily or Meeting attendance? Keep in mind that if teachers take the attendance it's meeting attendance even if it only occurs 1x/day. How PowerSchool stores daily attendance is different than how it stores meeting (teacher entered) attendance.
3. What attendance code(s) should be used?
4. Do you want Tardy messages as well?
   1. If yes, should they be different than the absent messages?
5. What time(s) do you want the messages to go out? Things to consider:
   1. If you've told teachers they have until 9am to enter attendance then PowerSchool can't send until 9:05 and we can't send until 9:10. Please consider any internal business rules when finding which time to send.
   2. You may want to send in the morning and again in the afternoon for the same school. This is perfectly fine.
   3. You may want to send in the morning and then again later but only to people who didn't get the earlier message. We can do that too, just let us know.
6. Who should receive the report after the messages are sent? When we automate these tasks its easy to let them go and forget about them. We highly recommend having the report emailed to at least 1 person so that they have a record of it should they need it. This  can be the attendance clerk, a generic attendance email, or even a distribution list you control so you can add/remove people as you see fit. These can be easily changed later on, we'll show you how.