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Spider – Overriding Attendance Status in Roll Marking

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Available in Spider version 2014.02.25 or above.

PCSchool has modified the options available to teachers in Absence Roll Marking as follows:

1. If the student is currently ‘NM – Not Marked’ the teacher can select any available status from the list including ‘? – Unexplained’.Not Marked

2. If the student is currently ‘? – Unexplained’ the teacher can select any available status.Unexplained

3. If the student currently has a status other than NM or ? (eg Late to class, Sick, Present, Excursion etc) the teacher cannot change it to ‘? – Unexplained’.Explained

The reason for this is so that classroom teachers cannot change an explained absence (possibly entered in by the office) to unexplained.

Spider – Set Rollmarking buttons for teachers

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Available in Spider version 2012.10 or above.

PCSchool allows schools to select which Absence Code / Status to use as the shortcut buttons in the Roll Marking / Absence Entry screen in Spider. The Spider will pick up  the first four codes from the attendancecodes.xml file found in the PCSchool\Documents folder on the server.

To change the codes or the order of the codes simply open the attedancecodes.xml file in note pad and re-arrange the codes so that the four you want as default buttons are at the top. NOTE: The NM button for ‘Not Marked’ is hard coded and can not be removed.

First four (4) codes in XML file will show as buttons in Spider Absence Entry.

First four (4) codes in XML file will show as buttons in Spider Absence Entry.

Spider – Absence Entry / Roll Marking status drop down list can be made read only or hidden

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Available in Spider version 2013.11.14 and above.

PCSchool has added the ability to make the absence status drop down list in Absence Entry ‘Read Only’ or ‘Hidden’.

This option can be used by schools who want teachers to be restricted to selecting from four status buttons when marking the attendance roll ( for example Not Marked, Unexplained, Present, Late for Class and one other), while the teachers can still see the other statuses entered in by the Back Office staff / Attendance Officer it will be in ‘Read Only’ mode.Spider - Disable Absence Status Dropdown List

The ‘spiderabsentrollv2.xml’ file found in the PCSchool\Documents folder on the server must be modified accordingly:SpiderAbsentrollV2.xmlClick here for information on how to customise the Absent Entry status buttons.

 

Spider – Student Info ability to hide / show absence and late information to different users

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Available in Spider version 2013.10 and above (Post Conference release available in October)

PCSchool has added the ability to hide or show the students Absence and Lates tabs in the Student Information view for various users: teachers, caregivers or students. This can be done using special keys in the Spider Configuration File.Hide or Show Student Absence and Lates tabs

The keys  in spider config are:

<add key=”ENABLE_ABSENCETAB_IN_STUDENTINFO” value=”TCS” />

<add key=”ENABLE_LATETAB_IN_STUDENTINFO” value=”TCS” />

TCS says the tab should be shown for Teachers (T), Caregivers (C ) and Students (S)

If its just for teachers, put only T in this value.

Spider – Budget Dashboard improved linkage to Ledger Project Codes

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Available in Spider Version 2013.07.24.xxx or above.

PCSchool has improved the Budget Dashboard control to display department income / expenses based on Ledger Project Code sub accounts.

GL Project Codes are set up in PCSchool 'Back Office and assigned to the department head

GL Project Codes are set up in PCSchool ‘Back Office and assigned to the department head

Report is selected from those in Ledger Standard Report Setup and Printing (eg Department Report) and flagged to 'Publish for Project'.

Report is selected from those in Ledger Standard Report Setup and Printing (eg Department Report) and flagged to ‘Publish for Project’.

Based on the format of the Ledger Report and the sub account of the project code assigned to the staff member, they can then view and drill down on income and expenses for their department.

Based on the format of the Ledger Report and the sub account of the project code assigned to the staff member, they can then view and drill down on income and expenses for their department.

 

 

Spider Absence Entry V2 – not allowing second year to be selected for first period of double

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Bug Fix available in Spider Version 2013.04.04.xxx or above.

Issue: School has several classes that are composite (consist of multiple year levels) with double periods in the timetable. Example:Composite Classes

Several teachers prefer to use the ‘Absence Entry V2’ control in Spider to mark the roll, however the system will allow them to select ‘Year 10’ and mark the attendance for the first period of the double lesson, but will not allow them to select ‘Year 9’ and mark the attendance for the first period of the double. Example:Composite Classes - Absence Entry V2

Solution: This issue has been resolved and a fix is available by updating to Spider Version 2013.04.04.xxx or above.

Spider – Student Attendance Codes are Sensitive to Caregiver

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Available in Spider Version 2013.03.15.xxx and above.

PCSchool Spider is now sensitive to which absence records to be shown to care givers. Only those absences that are considered an ‘absence’ will be displayed to caregivers.Attendancecodes_xml

This feature has been implemented so that parents only see ‘true’ absences, as a student may be on a ‘school based activity’ – absent from the school campus, but still attending school for the day) and caregivers may find these codes misleading.

This change is controlled by a key in the Spider Configuration File which says “CAREGIVER_ABSENCESTATUS_FILTER”. If this is true, then only the above logic of filtering is applied.