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Period 1 on Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 8:50. Block A on Tuesday and Thursday from\n9:00 to 10:30. Sections belong to the school, not to a classroom, so a school with seven periods\ndefines seven sections once and every classroom picks from that list.",[55,56],"concept-figure",{"alt":57,"caption":58,"src":59},"A diagram showing school sections on the left, classrooms that offer some of them in the middle, and a student placed in one section of each classroom on the right, producing a weekly schedule.","The school owns the sections. A classroom offers some of them. A student sits in one section of each classroom they take, and that is their schedule.","/img/concepts/sections-model.svg",[61,62,64],"h2",{"id":63},"three-layers","Three layers",[66,67,68,84],"table",{},[69,70,71],"thead",{},[72,73,74,78,81],"tr",{},[75,76,77],"th",{},"Layer",[75,79,80],{},"Who sets it",[75,82,83],{},"Where",[85,86,87,104,119],"tbody",{},[72,88,89,98,101],{},[90,91,92,93,97],"td",{},"The school ",[94,95,96],"strong",{},"defines"," sections",[90,99,100],{},"Administrators",[90,102,103],{},"Settings › Attendance",[72,105,106,113,116],{},[90,107,108,109,112],{},"A classroom ",[94,110,111],{},"offers"," some of them",[90,114,115],{},"Whoever edits the classroom",[90,117,118],{},"The classroom form",[72,120,121,128,131],{},[90,122,123,124,127],{},"A student is ",[94,125,126],{},"placed"," in one section per classroom",[90,129,130],{},"Whoever manages the roster",[90,132,133],{},"The classroom's Students tab",[51,135,136,139,140,143],{},[94,137,138],{},"Defining."," Each section has a name and a set of days, with a start and end time per day. Drag\nthem into the order teachers expect. Times are read in the school's timezone, set in\n",[94,141,142],{},"Settings › General",".",[51,145,146,149],{},[94,147,148],{},"Offering."," When a classroom is created or edited, pick which of the school's sections it meets\nin. A class that runs twice a day offers two sections. A class that meets whenever offers none.",[51,151,152,155],{},[94,153,154],{},"Placing."," Each student on a roster sits in one of the classroom's sections, or in none. That\nplacement is the student's schedule, and it decides which attendance session they appear in.",[55,157],{"alt":158,"caption":159,"src":160},"The Attendance settings page listing the school's sections with the days and times each one meets.","The school's sections. Every classroom chooses from this list.","/img/concepts/sections-settings.png",[61,162,164],{"id":163},"placing-students","Placing students",[51,166,167,168,171],{},"Adding students to a classroom, from the ",[94,169,170],{},"Students"," tab, asks which of the classroom's sections\nthey sit in. The first section is preselected, so a classroom that meets once a day never asks\ntwice. A classroom with no sections skips the question.",[51,173,174,175,178,179,182],{},"To move a student later, open the row's menu on the same tab and choose ",[94,176,177],{},"Move to"," another\nsection, or ",[94,180,181],{},"Clear section"," to leave them unplaced. Tick several rows and a section picker\nappears in the toolbar to move them all at once.",[55,184],{"alt":185,"caption":186,"src":187},"A classroom's Students tab with one row's menu open, offering Move to Tuesday / Thursday and Clear section.","Moving one student from the Students tab. The same menu clears a placement.","/img/concepts/roster-move-section.png",[51,189,190],{},"Two prompts keep placements tidy. Adding a section to a classroom that has unplaced students\noffers to put all of them in it. Removing a section from a classroom asks before it clears the\nplacement of everyone sitting in it.",[61,192,194],{"id":193},"where-sections-show-up","Where sections show up",[196,197,199],"h3",{"id":198},"schedules","Schedules",[51,201,202],{},"A student's schedule is their placements laid out across the week. It is on the student page,\nprintable, and shown to families on the web and on the phone. A student with no placement in a\nclassroom still belongs to it; they just have no time on the grid for it.",[55,204],{"alt":205,"caption":206,"src":207},"A student's weekly schedule showing classrooms placed on days and times.","A student's week, built from their section in each classroom.","/img/concepts/student-schedule.png",[196,209,211],{"id":210},"today","Today",[51,213,214,215,219],{},"The teacher dashboard and the phone's Today screen list the classes meeting today, in order, with\nthe time each starts and whether attendance has been taken. That list comes from the sections a\nteacher's classrooms offer. It only appears when today falls inside one of the year's\n",[216,217,218],"a",{"href":6},"terms",", so it goes quiet over the summer and between semesters.",[196,221,223],{"id":222},"attendance","Attendance",[51,225,226],{},"Attendance is taken per classroom, per section, per day. When a teacher starts a session, the app\npicks the section for them: the one meeting right now with no attendance yet, then any of today's\nuntaken sections, then the one starting soonest. A classroom with one section skips the question.\nThe session's start time is the section's start time, so attendance entered at lunch still lands\non the period it describes.",[51,228,229],{},"The classroom's attendance list shows each session with its section, date, who took it, and the\ntardy and absent counts. A student's totals on their page and on the family dashboard are summed\nacross every section.",[61,231,233],{"id":232},"absence-codes","Absence codes",[51,235,236],{},"Absence codes are a separate list on the same settings page: a name, whether it counts as excused,\nand whether it is the default when a student is marked absent. They are optional. A school that only\nneeds present, tardy, and absent can leave the list empty.",[61,238,240],{"id":239},"schools-without-periods","Schools without periods",[51,242,243],{},"A one-room school or a homeschool co-op can define a single section named \"Class\" that meets every\nschool day, and give it to every classroom. Every student is placed in it, attendance has one\nsession a day, and the schedule shows one block. Or define none: attendance still works, without a\nsuggested section or a schedule.",[61,245,247],{"id":246},"common-situations","Common situations",[249,250,251,258,264,270],"ul",{},[252,253,254,257],"li",{},[94,255,256],{},"A section's time changes."," Edit it once. Every schedule moves, and the dashboard's idea of\n\"now\" moves with it. Past attendance keeps the time it was taken at.",[252,259,260,263],{},[94,261,262],{},"A classroom stops meeting in a section."," Remove it from the classroom. Students sitting in it\nbecome unplaced; move them from the Students tab.",[252,265,266,269],{},[94,267,268],{},"A section is deleted."," It leaves every classroom that offered it and every schedule. Past\nattendance sessions keep their record.",[252,271,272,275],{},[94,273,274],{},"A student shows no classes on their schedule."," They are on the roster but not placed. Open\nthe classroom's Students tab and move them into a section.",[61,277,279],{"id":278},"related-concepts","Related concepts",[51,281,282,283,286,287,290,291,143],{},"Today lists and schedules only appear inside a ",[216,284,285],{"href":6},"term",". Whether a teacher can\nplace or move students is a ",[216,288,289],{"href":31},"permission",". 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