Daily Attendance That Actually Reconciles
The problem with two registers
Most institutions keep attendance in one place and leave in another. A student is marked absent, then a leave request is approved a day later, and the two records never meet. By the end of the term nobody can say with confidence how many days a student was actually present.
Design for one source of truth
The fix is not a better register. It is a single record where an approved leave writes back to attendance.
- Mark daily attendance per class on a fast grid.
- Route corrections through an approval step that keeps the original entry.
- Approve student and staff leave in one unified flow.
- Apply holiday calendars and shifts to the working day automatically.
Corrections should be visible, not silent
A teacher who marks the wrong student should be able to fix it, but the original entry should remain in an audit trail. Silent overwrites are how a register becomes untrustworthy.
Reports that answer the real question
Attendance reports should answer who was absent, how often, and whether a pattern is emerging, scoped to the classes and students the viewer is allowed to see. A parent should see their own child. A teacher should see their own classes.
When attendance, leave, and reports share one record, the daily question has one answer.
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