MIS: How do I view this week's attendance headlines?

MIS

Overview

This article explains how to view this week's attendance headlines for the whole school using the Attendance Dashboard. The dashboard shows a week-on-week comparison for each headline figure.

Instructions

From within Juniper MIS:

  1. Select Reports.
  2. Select Attendance.
  3. Select Dashboard.

  4. If you want to include those pupils who are Leavers, check Include Leavers, otherwise, leave Include Leavers as unchecked:

    When this is unchecked (default), attendance statistics for the academic year are displayed for pupils with a Current status. When Include Leavers is checked, this filter includes all pupils that were on roll during the selected academic year, including those that have left (pupils whose Status is either Current or Leaver). 

  5. Locate the Attendance Headlines widget:

Outcome

In the Attendance Dashboard, you can view this week's Attendance Headlines (as percentages) and compare them with those of the previous week:

The Attendance Headlines show:

  1. Attended - Percentage of pupils recorded as attending school (those pupils marked present).
  2. Authorised - Percentage of authorised absences (those absences that have been approved by the school).
  3. Unauthorised - Percentage of unauthorised absences (those absences that are unapproved).
  4. Total Absence - Percentage of all absences (authorised and unauthorised combined)

Additionally, you are presented a comparison of each headline figure from the last 7 days against the previous 7 days. Using this data, you can track trends more responsively. These are displayed under the main headline percentages with either a red or green call out and an up or down arrow:

  1. Red backgrounds indicate decrease in performance week-on-week, for example, when attendance drops, or absence increases.
  2. Green backgrounds indicate an improvement in performance week-on-week, for example, where attendance increases, or absence decreases.
  3. Up arrows indicate an increase in percentage week-on-week, for example, where the first week is 90% and second week is 100%.
  4. Down arrows indicate a decrease in percentage week-on-week, for example, where the first week is 100% and second week is 90%.

All percentages presented are calculated based on total sessions to date, for the school year. Each school day has two sessions per pupil; thus, a school with 200 pupils has 400 sessions daily, 2,000 each week, and, for example, at the end of week five, a total of 10,000 sessions. As updates are made to the data twice a day, the comparison period also moves forward twice a day, to give a rolling week-on-week view.

Select View Report to open the Attendance Analysis report.

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