Getting Started

Get ready to hit the ground running with SchoolStatus Attend! This comprehensive Getting Started Guide equips you with everything necessary to successfully implement it across your entire school or district.

• Steps for how to log-on to your new account
• Resources for reviewing your interventions
• Tutorials on suppressing your interventions
• Details on how scheduling and closing conferences

• Head to www.schoolstatus.com and click Log In.
• You will notice lots of login options for our family of SchoolStatus products. Select Attend to get started!
• Enter your username and password and click the log in button.

Step 1: Make note of the current Attendance Through date for reference

• Head to the Overview page.
• Make note of the Attendance through date which you can find on the top left of the page.

* Remember that the Attendance Through date is the last day attendance is counted in

A2A for the current set of interventions

Step 2: Review Interventions To Be Sent

• Go to the Interventions page and check which students are about to receive a notification.

• Determine if any should not be receiving a notification and verify the dates and type of events that trigger intervention accordingly by clicking the i next to the AS column.

Suppression is the conscious decision not to communicate with the parent or

guardian regarding their child’s attendance.

Step 1: Determine which student needs to be suppressed

Look through your list of students in 'To Be Sent' column and verify who should not receive a notification and therefore requires a Suppression.

*A letter should only be suppressed if the school has communicated with the parent and knows the reason the student was absent.

Step 2: Select the suppression length

Select one of the three suppression length options:

• This Intervention: Suppresses the intervention this current run.

• 3 Absences: Suppresses the intervention every run until the student accrues an additional number of absences or equivalent periods.

• Indefinitely: Suppresses intervention indefinitely. This option is available upon request from your district office.

Step 3: Explain why it happened

Enter a note explaining why you suppressed or extended suppressed the intervention.

Note: When you suppress an intervention or leave a note, the icon will turn yellow 💡

indicating that an action has taken place.

*When you suppress a student, they will move from the To Be Sent list to the Suppressed tab.

Conferences in Attend are triggered as a result of an intervention that was sent.

The conference typically represents the initial attempt by the school to meet with the parent in an effort to reduce absences. Once a student is eligible for a conference, the designated attendance staff schedules the conference, and Attend will send an invitation to the parent.

Step 1: Look for the students that are scheduled to have a conference

Go to the Conference page and click the 'Students to be scheduled' tab.

Step 2: Schedule the Conference

*If choosing to type information in the 'Message To Parent/Guardian' box on the conference scheduler form, be sure to not include student identifiable information.

Closing a conference represents a documented successful or unsuccessful attempt to intervene in

a student’s attendance habits. A2A provides a means to analyze processes and provide documentation of each attempt.

*All students must be assigned a conference status before the conference can be closed.

Step 1: Locate the Conferences that need to be closed

On the conferences page, locate the conference within the 'To Be Closed' tab.

Step 2: Open the Conference details

Open up and view the conference detail pages.

Step 3: Edit the Conference details

Click the Edit button at the top of the page to edit the conference.

Step 4: Confirm each Conference's status

Add a status to each conference.

Step 5: Save and close the Conference box

Save and close the conference.

• All conferences remain in the 'To Be Conducted' tab until the conference date has passed.
• Once passed, they move to the 'Conferences To Be Closed'' tab.
• To close a conference currently located in the 'To Be Conducted' tab, you must edit the date of the conference to a date in the past. Then save the conference before proceeding to give students a conference status.