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School-level feature — managed within your school portal at yourschool.deandesk.com.

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Video walkthrough

This walkthrough uses the real DeanDesk interface with the fictional Northstar Academy demo school and a calm, AI-generated English voice. Payments and outside services are not connected in the demo.
The Attendance tab is where you take roll for a course you teach and review how often each student attends. Only course staff (the instructor, assistants, and admins) see it. This page covers the in-course experience for teachers. For school-wide attendance modes, the daily register, automatic attendance from video calls, and reports, see the full Attendance guide.

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Read the summary

Open a course you teach and choose Attendance in the course sidebar.
  • End date and Range set the window the summary covers: the chosen number of days (7, 14, 30, 60, or 90) leading up to the end date.
  • The summary cards show the Rate plus counts of Present, Tardy, Excused, and Unexcused. When minutes late were recorded, the Tardy count also shows the total, for example 3 (25 min).
  • Student summary lists each student’s counts and attendance rate, with the lowest rates first so you can spot who needs a check-in.
To include today’s class in the summary, set End date to today. The field may start on an earlier date.
The attendance rate counts Tardy as attended: (Present + Tardy) ÷ total marked sessions.

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Take attendance for today’s class

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Open Take attendance

Click Take attendance. The Take course attendance dialog lists every enrolled student, all starting as Present.
2

Mark each student

Click Present, Tardy, Excused, or Unexcused on each student’s row. Mark all present and Mark all absent reset the whole list at once.
3

Add minutes late (optional)

When you choose Tardy, a min late field appears. Enter how many minutes late the student arrived, or leave it blank.
4

Save

Click Save attendance. The session is recorded for today and the summary refreshes. Clicking Cancel or closing the dialog records nothing.
Take attendance always records a session for the current day. To change an earlier day, correct it in the history instead.
If your school tracks attendance per school day, a banner explains that course attendance starts with today’s school-day statuses and doesn’t replace the official daily record. In that mode, teachers can take course attendance only if an admin has turned on Allow teachers to manage daily attendance. See Choose the attendance mode.

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Correct a past record

1

Open the history

Click View history. Attendance History lists every session, newest first, with one row per student.
2

Change the status

Click the correct status on the student’s row. The change saves immediately and the summary updates.
3

Fix minutes late

For a Tardy record, edit the min late value, then press Enter or click away to save it.
If the class met over a DeanDesk video call, the Estimated time in call column shows how long each student was connected and what share of the class that was. Your manual corrections take precedence over automatic call attendance.
  • Students — manage who’s on the roster.
  • Gradebook — score work for the same students.
  • Attendance — school-wide attendance, reports, and video-call attendance.