Processing Mass Delete One Day's Attendance Utility

The Mass Delete One Day's Attendance utility enables you to delete one day's attendance for all students or selected students who have attendance records for a specific date. You can mass delete attendance for the entire day or for selected attendance periods during that day. For example, if school is closed due to inclement weather, and you want to remove any attendance you recorded in advance, such as absences for student appointments, you can use this utility to delete attendance for the entire day.

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Processing the Mass Delete One Day’s Attendance utility enables you to delete one day’s attendance for all students or for individual students who have attendance records for a certain day. Let’s begin by navigating to the Mass Delete One Day’s Attendance utility within the Attendance module. The Date field defaults to the current date but can be updated if necessary. We want to update attendance for last Friday, so let’s select the correct date. The All Day box can be checked if we want to update attendance for all periods for the specified date. For our example, we’ll check this box. We’ll notice that the Start Period and End Period fields now become disabled. Let’s click Next to continue. Here, we see the student or students whose attendance will be deleted for the specified day. For our example, we only have one student pull in. We could uncheck this record if we do not want to mass delete his attendance for the day. Because his attendance record was incorrectly entered for the specified date, we’ll continue the process by clicking Next. We’ll see the total number of student attendance records that will be deleted. Let’s run this process. We now see the total number of records that have been successfully deleted. Let’s click Done to complete this process. Now that you know how to process the Mass Delete One Day’s Attendance utility, you can ensure that any incorrect attendance records can be removed.

Processing the Mass Delete One Day’s Attendance utility enables you to delete one day’s attendance for all students or for individual students who have attendance records for a certain day. Let’s begin by navigating to the Mass Delete One Day’s Attendance utility within the Attendance module. The Date field defaults to the current date but can be updated if necessary. We want to update attendance for last Friday, so let’s select the correct date. The All Day box can be checked if we want to update attendance for all periods for the specified date. For our example, we’ll check this box. We’ll notice that the Start Period and End Period fields now become disabled. Let’s click Next to continue. Here, we see the student or students whose attendance will be deleted for the specified day. For our example, we only have one student pull in. We could uncheck this record if we do not want to mass delete his attendance for the day. Because his attendance record was incorrectly entered for the specified date, we’ll continue the process by clicking Next. We’ll see the total number of student attendance records that will be deleted. Let’s run this process. We now see the total number of records that have been successfully deleted. Let’s click Done to complete this process. Now that you know how to process the Mass Delete One Day’s Attendance utility, you can ensure that any incorrect attendance records can be removed.



  1. Select Menu > Administrative Access > Attendance.
  2. Select Mass Delete One Day's Attendance under Utilities.
    Expected Result

    You see the Mass Delete One Day's Attendance screen.

  3. Complete the appropriate fields.
    Step Information

    Required fields are identified with an asterisk. You must complete required fields before you can save your work.

    1. Verify the Date or enter the correct date if necessary.
      Step Information

      This defaults to the current date, but can be modified as needed.

    2. Check the box for All Day if appropriate.
      Expected Result

      If you checked this box, the Start Period and End Period fields are disabled. Skip to sub-step e.

    3. Enter a Start Period or click the Down Arrow icon to choose from the drop-down list.
    4. Enter an End Period or click the Down Arrow icon to choose from the drop-down list.
    5. Click Next near the top left of the screen.
      Expected Result

      You see a list of students who have attendance records for the specified date and attendance periods.

    6. Uncheck the box in the Select Student Attendances column for each student you do not wish to mass delete attendance for.
      Step Information

      All boxes default to checked, but can be modified if necessary.

    7. Click Next near the top left of the screen.
      Expected Result

      You see the number of student attendance records to be deleted for the specified date.

  4. Click Run Process near the top left of the screen.
    Expected Result

    You see a message indicating the number of student attendance records that were successfully deleted.

  5. Click Done near the top left of the screen.
    Expected Result

    You return to the screen you were previously on.

Result(s)

You have successfully deleted attendance for the selected students for the date and periods you specified.