iWise Setting relevant to absence management

     

The following iWise settings are relevant absence management:

absence_contact

Enter the contact name for letters and notifications sent by the iWise Server. (eg: Student Services, Mrs P Jones, etc)

absence_default_notify

When notifying parents of absences, this option allows your school to choose the default type -either SMS or Email.

absence_email_parents_abs

This setting allows you to manage the text in the email sent to parents of absent students.

absence_email_parents_late

This setting allows you to manage the text in the email sent to parents of late students.

absence_late_slip_auto_print

Select ‘Yes’ if you wish late slips to automatically print when new late records are created.

absence_late_slip_custom

Enter the HTML data that is used to replace the default late slip in iWise.

absence_late_slip_text

Use this setting to edit the text that appears on the iWise late slip.

absence_leave_pass_photo

Use this setting to show student photo on the leave pass. ‘Y’ to show, ‘N’ to hide.

absence_period_day_threshhold

If using period absence marking, enter the number of full period absences required in order to make the whole day absent. The default is for all periods to be marked absent in order to create a whole day absence record.

absence_period_mark

Enable this option if you want to allow period based absence marking.

absence_period_mark_p1_auto

Enable this option if you want a student’s attendance status the first time their roll is marked to be the default status for the rest of the day.

With this setting turned on, students who are absent the first time their roll is marked will have whole day absence records created.

absence_sms_parents_Abs

This setting allows you to manage the text in the SMS sent to parents of absent students.

See also SMS_MAX_LENGTH, which will determine the maximum length of the SMS message.

Absence_sms_parents_late

This setting allows you to manage the text in the SMS sent to parents of late students.

See also SMS_MAX_LENGTH, which will determine the maximum length of the SMS message.

absence_swipe_leave_switch

Use this setting to specify the time at which the swipe screen will create early leave records rather than late records upon swipe.

If a student hasn’t swiped already today, if they swipe before this time a late record will be created. If they swipe after this time an early leave record will be created.

absence_swipe_print_slip

This setting controls whether or not a late note or early leave pass is printed when a student swipes in late or swipes for early leave.

absence_swipe_show_save_button

This setting controls whether or not the ‘Save’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons show on the early leave swipe screen.

If you are using the swipe station at a location where you don’t have a mouse, or if you don’t want the option to block an early leave have this setting turned off.

If you want to decide whether a student can leave or not, based on any current or future classes or events, have this setting turned on.

absence_swipE_start

This setting is used to specify a start time to be used if a student doesn’t have a timetable. This should be set to your normal school start time.

absences_auto_create_each_day

If this setting is turned on, absence records for all students will be created at 5am each morning.

If you want absence records to be created for only some school years, add a filter in the Value field.

Please speak to Civica if you would like help with editing this setting.

absences_auto_create_type

This setting is used to specify the absence type used when creating automatic absence records (For example, ‘Unexplained Absence’ or ‘Roll not marked’.)

leave_filter_authorised_by

The ‘Authorised by’ field used when creating leave records will be limited to users with ‘Leave Admin’ group if this option is set to ON.

swipe_roll_refresh_time

This setting controls the number of seconds specified between a swipe and the screen resetting itself. The default is 10 seconds.

swipe_roll_swipe_text

The text to display on the swipe screen when in resting state.

swipe_roll_valid_years

A semi-colon separated list of valid years for the student absence by roll swipe screen.