On-Line Attendance Training

Open an Internet browser to access the on-line attendance and Aries Browser Interface (ABI)

http://abi.madera.k12.ca.us

Logon with your lastname_first initial (or whatever your email username is) only and the password “welcome”.

You will then be prompted to change your password.

Once logged in you will have access to two tabs: Attendance and Student Info.

Click the Attendance tab and click Take Attendance.


Click the Period you want to take attendance. All students are present. Mark only the absent or tardy students.

Click Submit Attendance. You must Click Submit Attendance even if all students are in attendance.

To view student info, click the tab Student Info and click on the period and student you want to view.

On line attendance procedure

8/10/2011

Teacher maintains hard copy attendance roster in the classroom as the attendance/signature verification sheet for each student each period that must be kept as backup in the event there is an electronic failure. The manual report also will be signed by the teacher as the verification of attendance per EdCode. There is a signature on the bottom of the form. The teacher will sign it at the end of the month. The report will need to be available in the classroom for substitute teachers also.

On line attendance will be accessible by the teacher for the current day. An additional option to do attendance from the previous day has been added to assist teachers that do not have access to a computer or for electronic failure. Each teacher must enter attendance on line by the end of each period. Students are assumed to be “present”; teacher is to mark the students “absent “or “tardy” and corrections can be made until the end of the day.

At the end of each day a report will be run by attendance identifying any staff member that did not enter attendance into the system. The attendance staff will contact the teacher to insure that attendance is completed.

Substitutes will complete the manual report in the classroom and will receive a generic attendance form for each class that must be turned into the Principal’s Administrative Assistant at the end of their duty. The attendance staff will enter the absences into the electronic system.