Important
Attendance & Timetable will only appear if your school is subscribing to ManageBac+ for Attendance.
Dashboard Calendar
Via your Daily/Weekly Calendar
You are able to see your child's Home menu calendar, with their events, tasks, deadlines, online lessons, and lesson experiences for the current day.
Via the Home Menu, you can also quickly access your child's Timetables and submit attendance Excusal Requests by clicking on "View All":
You can also submit an Attendance Excusal Request at the top of the Dashboard screen by clicking on "Excusal Request".
If you have more than one child in ManageBac+, you are able to toggle between them via the drop-down menu.
View & Subscribe to your child's Calendar
Via the Dashboard Tab
Make sure you have selected which child to view if you have more than one child in ManageBac+.
Via Dashboard > Daily/Weekly Calendar > View All, you will see your child's upcoming due dates in calendar form.
You can switch between a Month and Week view depending on how much detail you wish to see.
Subscribe to the calendar by accessing the Calendar page to push these deadlines to any external iCalendar, Google Calendar, or another local calendar.
You will be automatically redirected to your external calendar to add the ManageBac calendar.
If you have more than 1 child in ManageBac, make sure you subscribe to each student's calendar by switching the student profile using the dropdown at the top.
View your child's Attendance summary
Via your Dashboard
From Dashboard > Timetable, you can view a summary of your child's timetable and attendance status.
In the middle of the page, you can view your child's timetables with attendance data for the current week, and any records of absence for that class. Click on the class title to see further details for each class and period.
On the right-hand side, you will see a Homeroom Attendance chart, indicating Present, Late or Absent records for the current academic term as a chart and numerical tally.
Below Homeroom Attendance, you can also find the contact details of your child's Homeroom Advisor.
View Online Presence via User Profile Icons
When users log into ManageBac+, a live presence indicator will be displayed by their picture as a green dot. This indicator will appear by the thumbnail of any user that is currently online, including parents, students, and their teachers and advisors.
Note: This feature can be turned off by a school administrator.
View & Download Your Child's Timetable
Via Academic Profile > Attendance & Timetables
Under the Academic Profile section, you can select the Attendance & Timetables tab. Here, you can track your child's Attendance from their daily Timetable schedule.
View the class period number down the left side of the page, and date across the top. Select the date in the Calendar date picker, or navigate to a particular week or day.
View Attendance Status
On the right-hand side, a Legend & Tally of statuses are shown under Weekly Class Attendance. The colors here are also reflected on the blocks in the timetable itself
- Green blocks indicate Present
- Orange blocks indicate Late
- Grey blocks indicate attendance not yet recorded
- Red blocks indicate Absent
It also features the option to export the timetable for the week via Export Timetables to PDF.
View your Child's Location
If the school has added locations to the timetable, the Location details will display on the tile for each Class per period.
Click the class title to expand the class information window.
This will allow you to email all class teachers by clicking the E-mail icon or you can click Tasks & Units to open the Tasks list for the class.
You can also click the Calendar Icon to expand the class window where you can find Upcoming Online Lessons & Tasks.
Submitting Attendance Excusals
Note: You can't see the Submit Attendance Excusal button and your historical attendance excusals if your school chooses to disable this function.
If the function is enabled, on the student's Attendance & Timetable page, click Submit Attendance Excusal.
Note: The Attendance Excusal can also be submitted via the Dashboard
This will allow you to indicate the days when your child will be absent, and it will allow you to provide a reason (e.g. a 10-day trip). After you click Submit, it will be shared with the assigned Homeroom Advisor and emailed to your school's Administrators.
To edit the excusal, once submitted, hover the "i" icon of the attendance excusal label to see the full details for this Excusal. Click Edit Attendance Excusal to make changes to the duration or description of it or Delete the Attendance Excusal.
Please Note: Attendance Excusals cannot overlap. Only one Excusal per day is allowed.
If your child's school sends Homeroom Absence notifications to parents via email, you can also access the Attendance Excusal page from the link in the Homeroom Absence notification email via the 'click here' link.
The email notification will include your Excusal note if you have submitted the Attendance Excusal before the Homeroom Absence notification was sent.
Viewing your child's Term or Year Attendance records
Via Academic Profile > Reports
Your school may include Attendance on the term or yearly report cards. You can view and download PDF reports via Academic Profile > Reports > click the icons to view the web-view report or download the PDF report card.
The attendance may be included in the Cover Sheet sections of the report.