This 3 hour online workshop on the setup for attendance letters in SMS 2.0. Attendees will; view examples of unexcused absence letters, excessive (chronic) absence letters and excessive tardy letters. In addition, attendees will discuss and create necessary codes, Thresholds, Letter Attendance Types and Date Range Codes. Custom Attendance Letters (layout/merge) templates are discussed with an opportunity to clone from other users. Required homework is to complete the modifications to your Custom Attendance Letter (layout/merge) templates.

Zoom Model:  This is a (hands-on style) ZOOM session (to fully participate users should have access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in their data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer).

Target Audience: Attendance secretaries; BECCA/Discipline personnel

Prerequisites : User should be proficient at Attendance entry and/or have attended a Basic Attendance training.

CoRequisite : Attendance Letters Part 2 of 2

There is a fee to attend NWRDC trainings if your School District does not belong to the NWRDC regional cooperative. Member Districts can attend at no charge. The fee is $200 for classes under 4 hours and $400 for all day classes. A PO is required prior to attendance, and can be emailed to regadmin@nwrdc.net.

Login information will be emailed prior to the meeting.

In order to attend this course, and to ensure we are able to credit you correctly for class hours attended, we require the following to enter the Zoom room:  your complete first and last name as well as your school district. Failure to do this will automatically end your Zoom session.