Hello All,
How can I administer the attendance for students from one interface without going into each record? Does anyone have an idea?
Cheers,
Abumere
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Thank you for your post! I understand that you are using a Tracker Program to track each TEI (student) and so each student has a record? I’d wait for an expert answer but as far as I know, I think it’s only to possible to update multiple TEIs at once using the API (or the import/ export app).
This could be an app idea for App Development , but you could implement something as easy as a CSV import or API request, (New Tracker - DHIS2 Documentation)
If you think it’s essential to have this directly available in the UI then please share more details about the current challenge and if you have a feature request to suggest then please create it at (Projects - Jira) and share it with the community to get more votes.
Thank you!
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Hi there! Thanks so much for getting in touch and very interesting to hear your project is keen to manage student attendance! @zeferino, @Knut_Staring can share more about an EMIS-specific app that is currently being used to make attendance taking and tracking much more user-friendly.
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@Gassim, thanks for taking your time to respond. The whole point is making the process very user friendly and taking away CSV/Excel. This feature is very important as it will increase the usability for the attendance use case for a national teachers training project. I hope to see some efforts in this area.
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@SophiaK , Thanks for your response. The project is a national teachers training initiative.
it is required to enroll and track teachers as they progress through a series of trainings overs a period of time. Over 17000 teachers are already in the system. These sessions can have up to 200 teachers across difference districts for a particular period. A location can have like 80 teachers processed for a session. Having to process one after the other for each TEI would be cumbersome. We would like to avoid csv imports if possible as we want a change process that takes csv out entirely except when necessary for bulk operations and not for daily operations. @zeferino and @Knut_Staring can you share this EMIS app suggested by @SophiaK?
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Hello Abumere, very sorry for not responding to this inquiry. Your project is very interesting, I also recently came across the video of the presentation you made at the DHIS2 Symposium. I do think the webapp that we are working on could be suitable for your use case, and you can actually try a version of it here. It is still under development, and has not been exactly targeted to your use case, but I think it could make sense to have a call about it. Please message me on knut@dhis2.org
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Hello Knut,
I will reach out. Thanks
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Hello,
Is there anywhere any answer how to implement this question?
"How can I administer the attendance for students from one interface without going into each record? "
I would like to know how to do it, as it seems very useful in general, for this case or other ones.
Thanks a lot.
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Are you using a Tracker program? Could you share more about what is expected? For example, how do you want to administer the attendance?
Thanks!
Hi @kfeina , we are working on apps for this for both Web and Android. You can test out the web version of the Learner app here: Learner | DHIS2. Are you working with an educational organization?
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Hello @Knut_Staring and others,
I’m not working directly with education but I would like to prepare some demo for my cousin, cause she is a teacher.
After checking your Learner app, what I lack the more is an attendence panel by class for each teacher, or at least I couldn’t find it.
For a teacher this seems mandatory, to do student control fast. Something like
Teacher X - English Level 3 - Students - Attendence list:
student1 - check box (present)
student2 - check box (present)
student3 - check box (present)
student4 - unchecked box (absent)
…
I have also read that you do it via CSV, but as others said, it seems impractical for a small school.
Let me know if I can help in anything.
Regards.
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Hello @kfeina, I really understand and that is something we wish to support. We are currently focusing on EMIS for national scale implementations more than single schools. Therefore, we have so far only targeted daily attendance, not per subject/class period and also not per teacher. This will require extensive use of DHIS2 relationships and allocating students and teachers to specific sections. Still, it might be possible to support filtering by teacher and subject quite soon.
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Hello @Knut_Staring ,
I understood perfectly. Let me know if I could help in some way or another.
Regards and congratulations to the whole team for your wok.
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