Selecting absentees for bulk entry

Use the Absence Events Bulk Entry - Selection Screen window to select the groups of students who are absent from their usual classes.
Opening the Absence Events Bulk Entry - Selection Screen window

Select Module > Students > Absence Events Bulk Entry.

Tip: You can also access the Attendance functions by clicking .
The Absence Events Bulk Entry - Selection Screen window is displayed.

Note: If the Absence Events Bulk Entry window is open you can click to display the Absence Events Bulk Entry - Selection Screen window. This allows you to add more absent students to the list that you are working with.
Note: If the Create Absence Event window is open, you can click to display the Absence Events Bulk Entry - Selection Screen window. See Individual student absence events (on page ).
Absence Events Bulk Entry - Selection Screen window key fields and buttons
Fields

Field	Description
File Term / Year	Year and term you are including. Defaults to the current year and term.
Process Date	Include records updated in Synergetic on a given date. Defaults to today's date.
Tagged IDs	Include the students tagged earlier. See Creating absence events for tagged students (on page ).
ID	Synergetic ID of an individual student.
Campus	Campus that the students are enrolled at.
From Year Level / To Year Level	Year level or range of year levels.
Form	Form that the students are members of.
House	House that the students are members of.
Tutor Group	Tutor group that the students are members of.
Boarder	Students with a given residential status.
Status	Students with a given status. Note: The system administrator defines the student record file types. Refer to the System maintenance manual.
Process All Tuition Variation Types	Select to include all Tuition Variation Types. Clear to select an individual Tuition Variation Type.
Class	Select a class or group of classes based on: File Type Campus Class Code.
Students Who Are Selected Are	Include the students in one of the panes on the Absence Events Bulk Entry window, either the: To be Processed pane Not to be Processed pane. The default selection is that selections are To be Processed.

Buttons

Button

Description

Loads student details from a file created in another program, such as Microsoft Excel.

Note: The file must have the Synergetic ID number in the first column, with one student per row.

Delete a bulk absence event. For example, you can delete a bulk absence event created for the wrong group.
The Select Process Number window is displayed.

To delete a bulk absence event:

Select the process number to delete.
Click .

The following dialog window is displayed.
Type delete.
Click .

The following dialog window is displayed.
Click .

Use the search criteria entered to select students to be placed in either the To be Processed or Not to be Processed pane of the Absentee Bulk Entry window.