Absent children, and notes

A child who wasn't there should not be a row of blanks that reads as a bad day. Mark them absent and the unit counts toward nothing.

1. On the grid, press abs at the end of the child's row.
2. Or, with the child open on their own, press Absent at the foot of the card.
3. Press it again — abs, or Mark present — to put it back.

Their row dims and is tagged ABS, their score and percentage show a dash, and their level says Absent. On the Summary tab the square says abs. Nothing they have on that unit is counted — not in the class average, the Reports tab, small groups, or their own page.

Whatever was marked before the absence stays where it is. It stops counting rather than being erased, so a child who sat half a unit and went home still has what they did.

Enter a score for a child you had marked absent and they go back to present on their own. You caught them later in the day, or you pressed the wrong name; either way there is nothing to undo first.

There is one control for this, Absent. Use it whether the child was away or you left them out of the unit on purpose. Absent is not a zero, and it is never averaged as one.

Notes

Under the last skill on the one-child screen is a box: “Notes — what you noticed”. It belongs to that child on that unit, saves on its own a moment after you stop typing, and appears on the child's page under that unit. The class's team can read it, and so can your school's and district's administrators.