How do I create Bulk Absences?
- Go to School Attendance > Attendance Administration > Bulk Absences
If Bulk Absences option is not available in the Attendance menu, please ensure an Administrator in your school enables the Bulk Absences permission under Sentral Setup Cog > Manager User Accounts > Permissions > Attendance.
Then back in School Attendance > Attendance Administration > Bulk Absences
- On the top bar of the middle section, select Year, Roll Class, Class, Activities, or Students. (Selecting students will let you manually create a list of students by searching for their name one by one).
- enter the relevant absence details in the right column; date-range, frequency, day of week - it can be done by term in advance
- recurring absences (i.e. regular fortnightly offsite choir rehearsal) can be set the same way.
- click Next. This will take you to a confirmation screen, to review the details you are about to enter/change. Assuming all is OK, click the Save button, and your bulk absence has been created.
Note: ensure you have marked the Bulk Absence once the event is highly likely that goes ahead as revoking the absence cannot do be done in bulk, only one student at a time.