Student School Attendance Event (Tennessee v5.3)

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This event entity represents the recording of whether a student is in attendance on a daily basis at their school.

Object Triggering Logic

This table describes logic for triggering syncing of this object.

ActionTrigger
Post

When a new attendance event is verified for a student and the Attendance Status + Attendance Excuse combination is mapped to an Ed-Fi code.

OR

When a student has a Positive Attendance record and 'Positive Attendance' is mapped to an Ed-Fi code.

  • Report attendance for each school the student has a Student School Association record for.
  • Attendance date must fall on or between enrollment start and end dates.
  • Unknown attendance events will not send an event to Ed-Fi. The original post will not appear until an excuseID is entered in the attendance table.
  • Do not send records if attendance records are associated with a Calendar when the Exclude check box is checked.
  • A record will send for each distinct Date and Attendance Event Category Descriptor.
  • Do not send records if attendance records are associated with a School when the Exclude check box is checked.
Put

If Attendance Event Reason is changed.

DeleteDelete attendance record if all attendance is removed for the day for that Attendance Event Category Descriptor.
DeleteWhen an enrollment is deleted.

School Exclude, Calendar Exclude, Resource Toggle and Resync Logic

This table describes the School Exclude, Calendar Exclude, Resource Toggle and Resync logic of this object.

ActionTrigger
NoneIf a resource is toggled to 'OFF' after data has sent, all sent data will remain in the ODS but no new data will send.
ResyncIf a record is in the Ed-Fi Identity Mapping table and not in the ODS, it will be deleted from the Ed-Fi Identity Mapping table.
ResyncIf a record is in the ODS and it does not have a matching record in Campus or the Ed-Fi Identity Mapping table, it will be deleted from the ODS.
ResyncIf a mapping is changed in Resource Preferences, a resync will need to be done to reflect the changes.

Natural Key Changes, Cascading Updates, and Deletes Logic

This table describes the Natural Key Changes/Cascading Updates and Deletes logic of this object.

ActionTrigger
Post/Delete

If any part of the Natural Key Changes

  • If the School ID changes, all data will remain under the old number and a resync will need to be completed to populate data under the new number.  The delete tool would need to be used to remove all data from the old School ID. If an Ed-Fi ID changes, this will happen with the cascading deletes from the Ed-Fi ID Change trigger.

  • The natural key changes for Student and Sessions will result in a delete/post of Student School Attendance Events.
  • If the Attendance Status, Excuse or Date changes a delete/post will occur.


Scope Year Logic

This table describes scope year logic of this object.

Logic

Attendance will send to the scope year for the school year the attendance dates are associated with based on the student's enrollment.

  • Data will only send for the years that have valid configuration.


Resource Preferences

This table describes the Resource Preferences of this object.

Data Element LabelMapping Needed
Attendance Status and ExcuseAttendance Event Category Descriptors


Event Queue Detail

This table describes the Event Queue Detail of this object.

Campus TableEd-Fi ActionFields
attendancePost/Put/DeleteThe primary table used for sending data for this resource.

Object Data Elements

This table describes data elements sent within the Student School Attendance Event resource. Elements in bold are required.

Data Element LabelBusiness RequirementBusiness RulesM, C or O

Data Source GUI Path

Database Field

 id 

The unique identifier of the resource.

 M  
attendanceEventCategoryDescriptor Key for AttendanceEventCategoryType.
  1. Reports when a student has a verified attendance status/excuse combination that is mapped to an Ed-Fi code.
M Attendance> Status + Excuse

attendance.status

attendance.excuse

eventDate Date for this attendance event.
  1. Enter the date  for the attendance record being reported.
M Attendance> Date attendance.date
schoolReference A reference to the related School resource.
  1. Reports the fields that are part of the Natural Key for the School resource.

 

M  
sessionReference A reference to the related Session resource.
  1. Reports the fields that are part of the Natural Key for the Sessions resource.
  2. Only report the Term Type from the Terms tab that is associated with the date and term schedule the attendance is being reported for.
M  
studentReference A reference to the related Student resource.
  1. Reports the fields that are part of the Natural Key for the Student resource.

 

M  
attendanceEventReason The reported reason for a student's absence.
  1. Report the first 40 characters from the Comments entered in the Attendance being reported for that day.
    • If more than 40 characters exist, add .... to indicate additional text not shown.
    • If there is more than one comment is entered for that day, report the comment from the last period that contains a comment..
    • If blank, do not report.
OAttendance> Comments attendance.comments
educationalEnvironmentDescriptor The setting in which a child receives education and related services.
  1. This is optional, does not report.
O  
eventDuration The amount of time for the event as recognized by the school: 1 day = 1, 1/2 day = 0.5, 1/3 day = 0.33.
  1. This is optional, does not report.
O  
etag A unique system-generated value that identifies the version of the resource. O  


Type/Descriptor

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Attendance Event Category Descriptor

codeValuedescriptionnamespaceshortDescription
Early departureEarly departureuri://ed-fi.org/AttendanceEventCategoryDescriptorEarly departure
Excused AbsenceExcused Absenceuri://ed-fi.org/AttendanceEventCategoryDescriptorExcused Absence
In AttendanceIn Attendanceuri://ed-fi.org/AttendanceEventCategoryDescriptorIn Attendance
PartialPartialuri://ed-fi.org/AttendanceEventCategoryDescriptorPartial
TardyTardyuri://ed-fi.org/AttendanceEventCategoryDescriptorTardy
Unexcused AbsenceUnexcused Absenceuri://ed-fi.org/AttendanceEventCategoryDescriptorUnexcused Absence