{"id":21474,"date":"2026-08-27T14:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/?p=21474"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:35:40","slug":"how-to-mark-absent-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/how-to-mark-absent-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"How to mark absent for students?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\" src=\"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image4-4.png\" alt=\"\">\u00a0> Attendance > Student Attendance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To mark a student as absent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open the Mark Attendance page for the required class, section and date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Against the student who is absent, select <strong>A<\/strong> in the <strong>Attendance Status<\/strong> column. The student row is highlighted to indicate that the student is marked absent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mark-save-attendance.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"904\" src=\"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mark-save-attendance.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21475\" style=\"width:766px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mark-save-attendance.png 1920w, https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mark-save-attendance-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mark-save-attendance-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mark-save-attendance-1536x723.png 1536w, https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mark-save-attendance-1200x565.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enter the <strong>Remarks<\/strong>, if required, for example the reason for the absence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>SAVE<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Absent<\/strong> count in the panel on the right is updated as the students are marked.<br><strong>Marking absent using the keyboard<\/strong><br>The student can also be marked absent without using the mouse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use the <strong>\u2191<\/strong> and <strong>\u2193<\/strong> keys to move to the required student row.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Press <strong>A<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To mark several students as absent across one or more classes, use the <strong>Quick Mark<\/strong> mode. In Quick Mark, only the absentees are added and every other student is saved as Present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To mark a student as half day instead, select <strong>HD<\/strong>, or press <strong>H<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the <strong>\u2026<\/strong> icon in the Attendance Status column to view the remaining statuses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0> Attendance > Student Attendance To mark a student as absent: The Absent count in the panel on the right is updated as the students are marked.Marking absent using the keyboardThe student can also be marked absent without using the mouse: NOTE:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-21474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-attendance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21476,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474\/revisions\/21476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21474"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=21474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}