Class and student absences

The Absence management module distinguishes absences of entire classes from absences of individual students. Both follow the same declaration principle, but their effect on the timetable is not the same.

Absence of an entire class

Typical cases: school outing, trip, group internship, exam day.

Class absences are managed by administrators. From the Classes tab, the form lets you enter:

• the class concerned;
• the date range;
• the time range if the absence does not cover the whole day;
• optionally a subject to limit the effect to the lessons concerned;
• a reason;
• a comment.

For a recurring timetable, an accepted class absence removes that class's lessons from the display over the period concerned.

Absence of an individual student

Typical cases: illness, medical appointment, family reasons, authorized or unauthorized absence.

A student absence:

• applies to the selected student;
• marks the lessons of the period as canceled on the student's timetable, without removing the class's lessons or the teachers' lessons;
• can be declared by an administrator or by the student concerned, depending on their rights;
• becomes pending when it is declared by the student themselves.

Visibility

Administrators have the full view. Other roles see a limited version according to their rights: the existence of an absence can be visible without exposing the reason, the comment or the validation metadata.