> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rtospot.com.au/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Attendance

> Mark a session roll, save it and finalise it.

Administrators, enrolment officers and assessors can schedule sessions and
mark or finalise rolls. Linked trainers can mark and finalise their assigned
sessions in the trainer portal. Read-only staff can view rolls.

## Open a session

Open **Sessions** and choose the session, or open the class's **Sessions and
attendance** area and select a meeting. Session dates and times follow the
venue's time zone. A roll becomes editable on the session date at that venue.

Scheduling a class and scheduling its individual meetings are separate steps.
If no session exists, ask someone who maintains the class to schedule it first.

## Mark and save

1. Choose **Present**, **Late**, **Left early**, **Absent** or **Excused** for each expected student.
2. Add **Arrived**, **Left** or a **Note** where needed. Arrival and departure must be within the session; absent and excused marks cannot have times.
3. To fill remaining unmarked students as present, choose **Mark the rest present**.
4. Choose **Save attendance (N)** to save your changes.

**Mark the rest present** does not save the roll. Check the names and marks
before saving. **Print sign-in sheet** opens a printable sheet when you need
a paper record.

Present, late and left-early marks start covered units that have not yet
commenced. Changing an attendance mark later does not undo that commencement;
correct a mistaken start date on the booking as well.

## Finalise or correct

Once everyone expected has a saved mark, choose **Finalise roll**. A finalised
roll is locked against ordinary changes.

If it needs correcting, an administrator opens **Reopen this roll**, answers
**Why does it need changing?**, then chooses **Reopen roll**. Save the corrected
marks and finalise again. Earlier marks remain in **Change history**.

A student transferred out after being marked stays on the roll as **No longer
in this class**. Their attendance history has not been lost.

Attendance does not record an assessment decision. Continue with [results](https://docs.rtospot.com.au/results.md).


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