Among the many new features that we have added to Parents Booking recently is a Shareable Link for the Manage Attendance page, and this blog will quickly explain how this could be a huge help for your school’s next parents’ evening.
As you may or may not know, Admin users have a Manage Attendance page (usually found via Dashboard > Options > Manage Attendance) which allows them to complete the below tasks:
- Take attendance for parents’ evenings on a per student, per parent or per teacher basis
- Edit the attendance of certain appointments before, during and/or after a parents’ evening
- Watch the attendance change live during video parents’ evenings, to understand which meetings are being attended and note where any have not taken place (e.g. missed appointments or where the video meeting has not connected)
For in-person parents’ evenings, many schools look to take an attendance on the door, marking all parents who arrive as having attended all their appointments, with the option to later have Admins or teachers correct this where a parent didn’t actually attend a meetings.
However, Admin users are not always at the school during parents’ evening hours, and they may wish to delegate attendance taking to others – sometimes students, sometimes staff members. To help with this, we recently added a (different) Shareable Link to every parents’ evening’s Manage Attendance page, which will allow an Admin to delegate responsibility and control to one or more users – whomever they give this link to – without having to create usernames and passwords, or create user accounts.
Anyone who is given the Shareable Link is only able to manage the attendance for that one parents’ evening – it is not a link with access to other parents’ evenings or any other parents of Parents Booking.
We hope this will be a big help during the forthcoming parents’ evening ‘season’.
