When Daily Participation is used throughout the school, all persons involved in the dismissal process have all of the necessary information to facilitate all student operations.

The Daily Participation screen only takes a few seconds each day to use properly. Once you understand what the display means and how it works, operation is simple.

The Explicit column on the far right of the Daily Participation table will either have a circular check mark icon or words.

If the circular icon is displayed, then no specific designation has been made for the student for the day.

If a designation has been made, then the text will indicated the designation. The options are:

• Carpool Only - the student name will be displayed only when their normal carpool or any carpool group number 5000 or higher is entered
• Alt: 99 - where 99 is a numeric value. When this is displayed, the student name will only appear on the display when the listed carpool number is entered
• Group Name - when a group name is displayed, the child will appear only when the group is called, even if the child is listed as not participating in that group for the current day of the week, the child will be displayed when that group is called

The sample display image of the Daily Participation screen provides an excellent example to illustrate what all of the information means.

The first column is counter of the students on the class roster.

The buttons P, A, and E correspond to the student status at the end of the day.

P stands for Participating. This indicates that the student is present in the school during normal dismissal.

A stands for Absent. This indicates that the student is not present and will not be participating during normal dismissal. This student will not appear on any dismissal screens, either in the classroom or for dismissal staff.

E stands for Early Departure. This indicates that a student has left the school prior to normal dismissal. Operationally this works the same as being absent - student will not appear on any dismissal screens, either in the classroom or for dismissal staff - but is used to distinguish a student who was present in class for a portion of the day.

Explicit Override / Clear If a student is designated as absent or early departure, any existing settings for an explicit dismissal method will be cleared. Changing the student back to Participating will NOT restore the explicit dismissal settings.