Mark a class in 30 seconds on a phone, in the corridor.
Attendance designed for the device that lives in the teacher's pocket. Default-everyone-present, tap the absentees, done. Monthly summary one tap away. Holidays and exam weeks respected automatically.
Updated 11 July 2026Should attendance be marked per period or once a day?
It depends on the section of the school, and the honest answer is that most schools need both. Daily attendance — one mark at assembly or first period — is right for primary classes, where the class teacher has the same students all day and the question is simply "who came to school". Period-wise attendance — a mark for each subject period — is right for secondary classes, where students move between teachers and a student can be present at 8 a.m. and missing by the fourth period.
Period-wise marking costs more teacher time, so it only works if each mark takes seconds, which is why the marking screen matters more than the report screen. Acadovia supports both models: your school chooses per class, and the summaries, parent portal and reports adjust to whichever model that class runs.
Daily vs period-wise — a quick comparison
| Daily attendance | Period-wise attendance | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Primary and pre-primary; small schools | Secondary, where students move between subject teachers |
| Marks per student per day | One | One per period — typically six to eight |
| Teacher time per class | About 30 seconds, once | About 30 seconds, each period |
| What it catches | Absence from school | Absence from specific periods — the bunked lecture |
| What parents see | Present or absent today | Which periods were missed |
How is marking actually 30 seconds?
Because the default does the work. The marking screen opens with every student present; the teacher taps only the absentees and saves. For a 60-student class with two absences, that is two taps — less time than uncapping a pen over a paper register. The day's bell schedule is on screen for period-wise marking, so the teacher never wonders which period they are marking. This is also why we build phone-first rather than desktop-first: the marking happens in the corridor between periods, not at a computer in the staff room.
What happens after the mark?
Marking is the cheap part; the value is in what the marks connect to. Approved leave fills attendance automatically, so a student on sanctioned leave is never chased as an absentee and nobody enters the same fact twice. The school calendar is respected — holidays, exam weeks and half-day Saturdays are excluded from the percentage, so monthly figures don't need a manual correction ritual. Summaries come out per student and per class, including the RTE working-day count. And staff attendance flows the other way, into payroll, where loss-of-pay is computed from the same records rather than a parallel register.
Parents see today's attendance and the monthly trend in the parent portal. Being honest about delivery channels: portal and email notifications are live (email since July 2026, opt-in per user); SMS and WhatsApp absence alerts are on the roadmap, not live today.