Consecutive Hours - 30 Hours Unexcused
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Use the following guidelines to set up Attendance Notification Criteria for calculating the HB 410 absence threshold 30 consecutive hours of unexcused absences. Students meeting this criteria are considered chronic truants.
Definition Panel
Fields | Description |
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Criteria Code and Criteria Description | Make sure you reuse the same code across buildings for each absence threshold's Attendance Notification Criteria record. This is important when you are capturing a student's attendance for multiple buildings. |
Notification Group | Select the Notification Group you defined for House Bill 410. |
Processing Order | Order in which this criteria record will be processed by the Attendance Notifications Calculation relative to other criteria in the Notification Group. This is an ordinal number, with 1 signifying highest priority. Organize criteria as follows, from highest priority to lowest:
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Send Communications | Select this box, indicating this record is used to generate letters and notifications. |
Maximum Letters | Enter 1. |
Calculation panel - Attendance Selection section
Fields | Description |
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Calculation Timeframe | Select Y - Year |
Calculation Based on | Select A - Attendance Code |
Include Codes/Groups | Select all Attendance Codes indicating an unexcused absence. |
Attendance Source | Select A - Attendance Bottomline |
Attendance Periods | Select the attendance periods the calculation will check when determining consecutive minutes absent. |
Include Attendance History | Select Y - Year to Date |
Include Student Attendance | Select whether the Criteria record applies only to the selected building or if it should count student absences in prior enrollment buildings for the dates you process through the Attendance Criteria Calculation. If you select Y - From All Buildings, please verify the following codes are defined consistently across your buildings:
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Calculation panel - Occurrence Criteria section - Consecutive Minutes
Fields | Description |
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Criteria | Select Consecutive Minutes. |
Consecutive Minutes | Enter 1800, meaning the calculation creates the notification when a student has 1800 consecutive minutes of unexcused absences. |
At Risk panel
Fields | Description |
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At Risk | Select this box to indicate a student meeting this criteria should have at risk status updated for the associated At Risk Reason. |
At Risk Reason | Select the At Risk Reason you defined for this HB 410 absence threshold. |
Duration of Status | Choose how long a student keeps the at risk status after absences meet this criteria. At the end of the indicated duration, the student's at risk status expires. Next time you run the Attendance Notification Calculation, the At Risk Reason no longer displays on the student's At Risk Detail page. You can set the duration to a specific number of regular calendar days, a specific number of school membership days, a current duration, or the next occurrence of a duration. Available durations are based on Registration Marking Period Setup. (Administration > Registration Setup > Calendars > Marking Periods) |
Number of Days | Enter the number of calendar days or school membership days before the student's calculated at risk status expires for this criteria record. |