Setting Normal Hours

You can use the Normal Hours setting in Transparent Classroom to help manage attendance at your school. With Normal Hours you can set and change a child's schedule and automatically track when children are dropped off/picked up early and late. In this article we will explore:

Setting Normal Hours for an individual child
Updating Normal Hours using a spreadsheet
Using the Attendance Report to view attendance information

Setting Normal Hours for an Individual Child

To set a child’s attendance hours, first, go to [Children] and select [edit] under the child's name. Scroll down to "Normal Hours" and select the dropdown menu. If the child’s normal hours appear here, select them and you are done.

If the child's hours do not appear, select [Choose different hours] (don’t worry, after you do this once, the system will learn the hours you entered and let you choose them next time).

Use the toggles to input the child’s hours and days of the week that they are at school. Once you save, the information will be available on the dropdown menu as an option for all subsequent children.

Updating Normal Hours Using a Spreadsheet

You can also batch update children's Normal Hours using a spreadsheet. To begin go to [Children] > [Download]. This will download a .csv file that you can open using any spreadsheet software such as Google Sheets or Excel.

You can now open the document and update the information in the column for "Normal Hours." When you are finished you can save the document, go back to the [Children] page > [Import].

Using the Attendance Report to View Attendance Information

You can view the Attendance Report by going to [Attendance] > [Attendance Report]. You can use the date boxes at the top of the report to select start and end dates. On the far right columns of this report, you can see how many times a child was dropped off/picked up early and late. You can also see how many minutes early or late in total.

To see a child's attendance information by day, including how early or late they were, you can click on their name.

It is important to note that setting a child's Normal Hours will not automatically mark them tardy, but will keep track of how late/early they are and by how much.

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Using Parent Sign-In for Attendance

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Setting Normal Hours