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RollMarker software meets the needs of schools to accurately record and efficiently report on student attendance. Schools face increasing pressure to maintain accurate and timely information about student attendance. Existing paper-based systems in many schools are time-consuming and often just plain inaccurate. This compromises the ability of the school to provide accurate information to parents and education departments.

Why use RollMarker?

Save Money: The RollMarker student attendance system cuts down on the time that administration and other staff need to spend handling and compiling student absences data. Money spent on staffing hours to administer an attendance system needs to be spent every year. RollMarker, by contrast, can be purchased and installed once, with an inexpensive annual licence entitling the school to ongoing support and updates. By eliminating the need for an hour of staff time every day, plus additional time when compiling the absences data into reports, RollMarker has the potential to seriously cut your school's yearly operating costs.

Reassure Parents: The RollMarker student attendance system can inform parents of their child's absence far earlier than ever before. RollMarker can provide Web-based reporting to parents via a secure logon. RollMarker can provide customised letters to parents detailing any absences.

Cut Truancy: Unexplained absences have been more than halved in schools where RollMarker has been introduced. This not only aids classroom productivity, it reduces the risks to student safety that can be involved with unapproved absences from class.

Cut Paperwork: The RollMarker student attendance system requires the attendance data to be entered just once, when the teacher marks the roll in class. After the roll has been marked there is no need for it to be re-recorded at the office. This not only saves time, it reduces the scope for the inadvertent errors in handling paperwork.

Let Teachers Teach: Rollmarker reduces the time required from teachers to administer the attendance system. Teachers can put more of their time towards teaching their students.

Improve Reporting: RollMarker quickly and easily produces a large number of different reports. The software system has been developed with a view to providing all reports officially required by state and territory education departments, in addition to reports that can be useful for teachers, counsellors, and for inclusion with academic results.

Some of the many problems of a paper based system:

Wasted Time: Administration staff can spend upwards of an hour every day processing student attendance information. This staff expense can calculated as being at least $15 per day, meaning that running a paper based system can cost $3000 in staff time EVERY YEAR, before the data has even been compiled into reports!

Difficult for teachers: With the large number of on-the-move teachers and room changes, teachers can forced to spend valuable time using and putting up with the paper system. This time often increases for new or part time staff that are not familiar with the school. The use of paper based systems can detract from teachers' focus on teaching.

Too Slow: With a paper based system, the administration team are up to eight hours behind the whereabouts of a missing student. This can hinder the school in dealing with truancy.

Inaccurate: Absences recorded at the classroom can remain unreconciled with explanations given to the student office. Explanations given in the classroom can go unrecorded, or can be recorded with the wrong reason. When the roll is marked firstly in the classroom and then manually input into a database in the office, the scope for human error is greatly increased.

Inflexible reporting: Compiling the raw absences data into useful reports can be time consuming, adding further to the staffing expenses of a paper based system.

RollMarker provides a complete student attendance system

	Quickly and easily record student absences/attendance
	Records both timetabled and non-timetabled classes or group activities
	Allows for the adjustment of teacher-recorded absences on receipt of notes/medical certificates
	Reconciles class recorded student absences with attendance at school-approved educational activities
	Provides a extensive range of reports for home group teachers, coordinators, administration, parents (SMS, web login) and the Department of Education

Flexible Implementation for Recording Absences:

	via Pocket PCs, or
	over the school's network with laptop or notebook computers, or
	over the internet or school intranet.
	Extended periods of absence entered automatically from the central database.
	Simple, easy to use interface for absences.

Victorian Schools note: Fully compatible with CASES 21

Extensive Reporting
Absences by date range, period and year level
Absences by date range, period and home group
Absences by date range, period and house
Daily absences by AM/PM
AM/PM absences by homegroup and date range
List of students not meeting minimum class attendance requirements
Letters (customised) to parents re student absences
Web-based reporting to parents via secure login