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Attendance

Attendance marked in a minute. Parents told the same morning.

Teachers mark attendance from their phone in under a minute. Parents get an alert the same morning. Monthly reports in one click.

Month register · Roshan Public School, KarachiSample data. Drawn, not screenshotted.
  1. The register is one screen, not a book

    The section’s whole month on one grid. A pattern of Monday absences is visible without counting anything.

  2. An absence is marked, not shaded

    The absent day carries its own marker and is named in the key, so the grid reads the same to anyone who cannot tell the colours apart.

  3. A holiday is not an absence

    Mark the section closed and the day is stored as a holiday, so the percentage is worked out on teaching days only.

  4. The parent hears the same morning

    Guardians of the absent children get a push notification in the app. Sending is a tick box, so a half-day trip does not alarm 200 families.

The problem

The register is right. It is just unreachable.

Every school marks attendance. The trouble starts the moment somebody who is not holding the register needs to know what is in it.

The register stays in the classroom The office cannot say who is absent today without walking to six rooms and asking. By then the morning is gone.
Parents find out far too late A child who never reached school on Tuesday comes up at the parent meeting in March. Absence is only useful news on the day it happens.
Month end is a counting exercise Someone tallies every row by hand for the report cards, then subtracts the holidays, then does it again for the next section.

How it works

Four steps. The teacher does the first two.

1

Open your class, not a form

The teacher app lists only the sections you are class teacher for. Tap class 5-A and the roll is on screen in roll-number order.

2

Mark who is missing, then save

You touch the absentees, not the whole class. For a section of forty that is three or four taps on the phone the teacher already carries to school.

3

The parents hear about it the same morning

Tick the notify box as you save and every absent child sends a push notification to the guardian. Their phone reads: Your child is absent on August 22nd, 2026.

4

The month adds itself up

Present days, absent days and the percentage build as you go. Holidays are stored as holidays, so a closed Friday never counts against a child.

What you get

Everything the register did — and the parts it never could.

One screen per class-section Attendance is saved against a section and a date. Class 5-A on 22 August is one record, so nothing is entered twice and nothing overlaps.
Same-morning absence alert Guardians of the absent children get a push notification in the parent app. Sending is a tick box, so a half-day trip does not alarm 200 families.
Correct a day, not create a second one Pick the date again, change the marks, save. The record updates in place instead of leaving two versions of the same Tuesday.
Month-wise grid for the section Every student who was marked that month down the side, every day of the month across the top. A pattern of Monday absences is visible without counting anything.
Per-student monthly report Present days, absent days and the percentage for the month — Sara Khan, 94% in August. The session-year count also prints on the exam result card.
Holidays are not absences Mark a section closed for a day and it is stored as a holiday rather than an absence, so the percentage is worked out on teaching days only. The school holiday list keeps everyone on the same calendar.
Parents see the whole month A parent opens any month of the session year in the app, with the holidays already marked, and stops phoning the office to ask.
Staff attendance, kept separate Staff attendance is its own module with its own month-wise view, so teacher records never mix into the student register.
There is no biometric or RFID reader

Attendance is marked on the phone the teacher already owns. Nothing to buy, mount, wire, service or replace when it dies in June, and no queue of children at the gate at ten to eight. For most schools that is the cheaper answer.

Be clear about the other side of it. If your school has already installed a biometric or RFID machine, Skooly will not read from it. You would be keeping two registers and someone would key the day in twice. Tell us before you commit and we will say plainly whether that trade is worth making.

Permissions

Marking, and who can change a mark.

Roles are per school and permissions are per module. A teacher only ever sees the sections she is class teacher for.

Owner / principal

Every section, every campus, any month of the session year.

Mark register Every section Reports Holiday list

Coordinator / office

Every section in the school, once you grant the attendance permission.

Mark register Every section Reports Holiday list

Class teacher

Only the sections she is class teacher for, and only students in them.

Mark register Own sections Reports Holiday list

Parent

Their own child’s month, holidays already marked. Nothing to edit.

View own child Mark register Reports Holiday list

Questions

Common questions

How long does this actually take a teacher?

About a minute for a section of forty. The roll is already on screen in roll-number order, so the teacher taps the children who are not there and saves.

Do parents get a message when a child is absent?

Yes — a push notification to the guardian in the Skooly parent app, the same morning, naming the date. It is a tick box on the save screen, so you decide day by day rather than living with a rule someone set in January.

Be clear about the channel, because it matters for adoption: the alert reaches parents through the app, and the school’s other messages go out as app notifications too. A family with no app on the phone will not see it, so ask us about getting parents installed in the first week.

We already have a biometric machine at the gate. Can Skooly read it?

No. Skooly does not integrate with biometric or RFID hardware, and we will not pretend otherwise. If you keep the machine you keep two registers, and one of them will drift. Marking on the phone means there is no device to buy or maintain, nothing to replace when it fails, and no queue at the gate.

What happens on holidays and Sundays?

Mark the section closed for the day and it is stored as a holiday, not an absence, so the monthly percentage is worked out on teaching days only and nobody loses marks for Eid. The school holiday list keeps everyone on the same calendar.

Someone marked last Tuesday wrong. Can we fix it?

Yes. Choose the class-section and that date, change the marks and save — the same record updates rather than a second one appearing. Anyone who can mark the register can also correct an earlier date, and the same record updates rather than a second one appearing.

Watch a teacher do it in under a minute.

Send us one section’s roll and we will load it, so your teachers can try the morning routine on their own students’ names.

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