KDA Attendance

Reporting Student Attendance Using Time Tracker

It is the responsibility of students and parents to enter a daily log of time (in minutes) spent on tasks related to learning. These will be minutes spent online and offline completing tasks for KDA. By State statute, KDA shall maintain a daily log for each student who participates in online instruction. The daily log shall describe the amount of time spent by each student participating in online instruction on academic tasks. The daily log must list in minutes the amount of time spent on academic tasks for each course in which the student is enrolled.

• Students can log minutes for any time spent on schoolwork, and this does include time spent offline doing homework at night or on weekends.
  
  
• Students can enter minutes as many times as they like during the week, as long as they click the Update button.
  
  
• Parents should only click the Submit button in ParentVUE once per week. If your student will be completing work over the weekend, please wait until they are done to click Submit. Otherwise, you can Submit their minutes at the end of the day on Friday.
  
  
• If you hit Submit too early and need to make a change, please email digitalacademy@kyrene.org, and we will unlock it for you.
  
  
• There is a minimum number of minutes you should see at the end of the week. If your student participates in every class session for 5 days, and does not complete any additional work outside of class, they should have entered at the minimum.

Reporting Student Absences

Unlike a brick and mortar school, KDA does not have an attendance phone line. If your child is going to be, or was absent, please email the teacher(s) directly to inform them. Teachers may be able to assign work ahead of time or they may assign work when the student returns. As it states in the Kyrene District Handbook, students are expected to complete assignments and tests missed during an absence. The student is responsible for requesting missing assignments and for returning them to the teacher in the required amount of time.

Parents can access teacher email addresses in ParentVue or on the staff contact page of the KDA website.

Recording Absences and Tardies on the Time Tracker

If a student misses the entire day, or a portion of the day, the minutes entered must reflect that absence/tardy for those classes/class. Place zero minutes (0) in the classes/subject column for the day/time missed. If a student completes make-up work for the missed class, keep track of the total time they work independently on each subject and those minutes can be added to the actual date that the work was completed and what they worked on for the absence should be listed in the “activity” column. If a student was absent from a live Zoom class on a specific date/time, there should be no minutes entered on that date unless work was completed out of class at a different time.

Minimum Weekly Minutes