July 27th, 2026
New Feature
You can now decide exactly when an overlapping pass makes a student late or absent from class. Set your own thresholds, apply them by year level, and use a live preview to see the result before you save.
A new Attendance Policy tab brings your class attendance rules together in one place. Set a late threshold in minutes and an absent threshold in either minutes or a percentage of class time missed — or switch the late threshold off entirely so students are only ever marked present or absent. Save different rules per year level, with a fallback for students who don't have one. An interactive preview lets you drag a pass across the start, middle, or end of a class and see exactly which status comes out the other side. Attendance records now spell out why a student was marked late or absent, and you can map late and absent to different reasons when they flow through to your student information system.
Every school draws the line differently — five minutes late in Year 12 might mean something else entirely in Kindergarten. Now that line is yours to set, and it applies automatically every time a pass overlaps a class, so teachers aren't guessing or correcting records by hand. When a student or family asks why a record says what it says, the reasoning is right there on the record. And because late and absent can carry different reasons, what lands in your student information system reflects what actually happened.
Open the Attendance Policy tab and go to Class Attendance
Scan the Core Pass Overlap Rules at the top — these are fixed, and they cover which pass takes effect when two overlap, and why a pass needs removing before someone can mark attendance by hand
Choose whether to apply one policy to all students or set rules by year level
Set your absent threshold — a number of minutes, or a percentage of class time missed
Set your late threshold in minutes, or untick it to use present and absent only
Drag the interactive preview to check what happens when a pass overlaps the start, middle, or end of a class
Save — you'll see a warning if your thresholds could conflict
To send different reasons for late and absent, open the Reasons tab and set them under Setup & Mapping
Ready to set yours up? Your CSM can help you land on thresholds that fit your policies.
View the roadmap here: https://orah.featurebase.app/p/new-class-attendance-policies