Occasionally a school will have a change in their attendance policy that warrants modifying the value of an attendance category. For example, the school may determine that they are no longer going to count Tardy AM as a half day. If you modify the attendance value of a category from .5 to a 1, students receiving that category from this point forward will be given the 1 as their attendance value. Students that were previously marked with the half day value, will still have a .5 as their attendance value. To fix this you can use the Update Daily Attendance Tool.
Another instance in which a school might use this tool is if the calendar has been changed. For example, if students were released early on January 25th because of a snow storm and the user changed January 25th to a half day. If later the district determined that it should be a whole day, changing the calendar would not update all of the students. However, using the Update Daily Attendance Tool all students would be updated immediately.
To use the Update Daily Attendance tool:
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