Recording daily attendance

Cosine takes classroom attendance tracking to the next level by allowing educators to capture the emotional wellbeing of the students in a given school day.

When recording daily attendance, each students can be given one of these four attendance statuses:

1. Happy: The student is present in class, engaged, and looks happy.
2. Unhappy: The student is present in class, appears healthy but is disengaged and/or somewhat moody.
3. Sick: The student is present in class, but shows signs of poor health.
4. Absent: The student is not in school and, as such, their emotional wellbeing can’t be accounted for.

How to log attendance#

To start logging the daily attendance for students in your classrooms:

1. Tap the Quick action button (+) on the home page.
2. Select “Record attendance.”
3. Administrators will be prompted to choose a classroom to capture. For form teachers, the flow is straightforward.
4. Start logging the status one student at a time.
5. After logging all students in the classroom, preview your record and submit.

Best practice for logging attendance#

We recommend recording daily classroom attendance after noon (12:00PM) local time.

This ensures that educators have enough time to observe the students during the school day. Better observation helps educators provide a more accurate judgment of students’ psychological wellbeing.

IMPORTANT!#

There is an understandable urge for educators to hastily log all students present in their classroom as “Happy.” This is not advisable.

Studies show that over 25% of school-age children struggle with depression, most of which goes unnoticed.

Data captured through attendance logs can be instrumental in identifying psychological patterns that could possibly help discover student struggles early.

Record update window#

You have a 48-hour window to update attendance records after they are created.

We believe that 48 hours is enough time for parents to raise concerns about their child’s attendance status on a given school day.

We also believe that this timeline is enough for educators to catch inconsistencies in attendance logs.

For obvious compliance and data integrity reasons, attendance records older than 48 hours cannot be modified or deleted.

What happens next?#

When you submit an attendance record for a classroom, the parents of every student in the classroom will be notified about their child’s wellbeing on that particular school day.

If a student’s attendance status is updated, that student’s parent is also notified of the update.

Notifications are sent almost instantly to give parents the opportunity to report concerns quickly before the 48-hour update window closes.