How to Mark a Student Out of School
Use the iTeacher App from your mobile device to mark a student out of school when you don't have access to the full iSAMS system.
- You must have the iTeacher App installed on your device.
- You must have an active iSAMS user account to use the iTeacher App. Contact the Help Desk or your iSAMS administrator if you need help with this.
- Open the iTeacher App to display the Dashboard:
- Tap the Wizards tab at the bottom of the screen.
- Select Attendance & Out Of School:
- Select Assign Out of School:
- Use the selection tools to find the student that you want to mark out of school:
Choose to:
- Use the filters to search for the records that you want to mark out of school.
- Tap on any of the filters to apply them to records.
- Tap through the options displayed and select individual students.
- Mark students that are in your groups, such as your form group or teaching groups.
- Tap through the options displayed and select students.
- Selecting teaching groups here allows you to mark a whole teaching group out of school in bulk.
- Search by a student's surname, forename or school code.
- Use the filters to search for the records that you want to mark out of school.
- Select the student that you want to mark out of school:
- Tap Code:
- Select the absence/out of school code that you want to apply:
The Code screen closes. - Adjust the Start Date/Time and End Date/Time as required:
- Add a Reason for the out of school mark and any Notes as required.
- Tap Add in the top right of the screen to close the student record.
- Navigate back to the Attendance & Out of School screen.
- Tap View Out of School to see the students that are marked out of school:
