eSchoolPlus 19.4.36.0 Release

The Attendance View Setup has been modified to add the Learning Location Type column to the criteria rows where a single Learning Location Type can be selected.  Similar to the functionality of the Calendar field, this field can be used if you need to have different criteria depending on where the student was on a given day or when students are in different locations for a portion of the day.

• In School
• Virtual/Synchronous
• Virtual/Asynchronous
• Unassigned  - If selected, this criteria will only apply to students where a Location Type could not be determined based on the Learning Location code assigned to them and the setup in the student's assigned calendar for each day.

Depending upon your choice of settings in the Attendance View Setup and the Calendar Detail page, the Day Totals calculation will now do the following:

• It will only process criteria in your View Setup that are associated with a specific Location Type, if one is specified in the criteria.
• It will process only attendance periods within a day that match a selected Location Type, if one is specified in the criteria.
• If a student is Mixed Day for a day, and no Location Type is specified on the criteria that they met, a new value of M will be added to the Day Totals record for that day.
• If a View Setup is set such that “Students Qualify for Each Criteria Listed”, and you have different criteria by Learning Type, and a student is considered to be Mixed Day for a specific date, you can now have multiple Day Totals records created that capture values reflecting just the portion of the day they were in each Location Type.
• The Total Day Periods, Student Scheduled Periods, Student Unscheduled Periods, Present Periods, and Absent Periods will then reflect just the time spent in that Location Type.

Added a Max Day Time field to the Day Totals records to store the maximum number of periods or minutes based on the periods for the day to support the ability to calculate the student's attendance percentage by location for mixed days.

Learning Locations can support mixed days where a student may be in school for part of the day, and virtual/synchronous for another portion of the day, as an example.

Changes were made so mixed days can be defined in the calendar.

• The Calendar Day page has been modified to allow the user to specify Mixed Days, where a student may be in school for part of the day, and virtual/synchronous for another portion of the day, as an example.
• Mass Update Days has been modified to allow you to specify Mixed Days.
• Copy Calendars has been modified to copy the attendance periods by learning location for Mixed Days.

By defining a Learning Location code in the Mixed Day fields, you can then specify the attendance periods where a student with that code is considered to be throughout the day.

The Mass Update Days option has been modified to make it easier to update days.

You can now:

• Specify a date range to select dates. When you select a date range, you must select the cycle days to update and you can also select to update only attendance days within the range.
• Add a learning location without having to specify all possible codes when assigning Learning Locations in the In School, Virtual/Sychronous and Virtual/Asynchronous fields. The code will be inserted leaving any existing codes for that location type intact.
• Move a learning location from one location type to another by specifying it's new location. If a learning location code is already in use in the calendar for a day, it will be removed from the list for the previous location.
• Remove a learning location from the location type where it is assigned without assigning it to a new location, select the learning location in the Unassigned field.

Also, to prevent conflicting changes, the Membership information fields are not available if you select the Update Only Attendance Days option when updating a range of dates.