Settings

First Week of the Year

This setting (a number) is the ISO Week Value for the first week of the school year.  This is used in the engagement views to only allow teachers to edit engagement for weeks where there is school.

The default is 34.

Last Week of the Year

This setting (a number) is the ISO Week Value for the last week of the school year (one year beyond the first week).  This is used in the engagement views to only allow teachers to edit engagement for weeks where there is school.

The default is 20.

Editable Until

This setting (a number) is the number of days for which the previous weeks engagement is editable past Sunday at midnight (UTC).  For example, if you wish for attendance to be editable until Tuesday at midnight of the following week, set this value to 2.

The default is 1.

Daily Attendance

This toggle field controls whether the daily attendance form should be enabled for users with the requisite permissions.

Default is false.

Daily Start

This is the time (e.g. "08:00", or "12:00", or "13:00") in the form HH:MM on a 24 hour clock in the UTC timezone from which attendance will be take-able each day.

The default is 08:00.

Daily Tardy

This is the time (e.g. "08:00", or "12:00", or "13:00") in the form HH:MM on a 24 hour clock in the UTC timezone from which attendance will be marked tardy each day.  If you do not wish for anyone to ever be marked tardy, set this value to be past the value of Daily End.

The default is 12:00.

Daily End

This is the time (e.g. "08:00", or "12:00", or "13:00") in the form HH:MM on a 24 hour clock in the UTC timezone after which it will be impossible to take attendance.

The default is 15:30.

ATS Daily Engagement Template

This is a sample Daily Engagement file from ATS / STARS for use by the NYC DOE.  When using the Download Report button from the attendance dashboard, Talos will edit this template file to change the date to the present date and automatically input all attendance data.

For security reasons, a sample is not posted here, but please contact support@mytalos.com if you have any questions regarding this feature.

Permissions

Restricted Access

• View Restricted Access
  • Allows users to view the "Restricted Access View", the "Restricted Access Detail View", the "Swipe" view, as well as the "Export View".
  • Recommended for any staff managing restricted access stations, this includes administrators as well as school aides, or the teachers, who are monitoring swipe stations.
• Add Restricted Access
  • Allows users to create a Restricted Access model.
  • Recommended for your school's Restricted Access Administrators.
• Change Restricted Access
  • Allows users to change a Restricted Access model.
  • Recommended for your school's Restricted Access Administrators.
• Delete Restricted Access
  • Allows users to remove a Restricted Access model.
  • Recommended for your school's Restricted Access Administrators.

There are no separate permissions for the Restricted Access Log in use, they are controlled through the Restricted Access Permissions.

Attendance Object

• Dashboard
  • Allows users to access the "Attendance Dashboard" view, press the "Unknown to Absent" button, and use the "Daily Engagement File Export" button.
  • Recommended for your school's Attendance Administrators.
• Can Take Student Daily
  • Allows users to take a student's daily attendance.
  • Recommended for your school's Attendance Administrators, and students, if you wish for students to be able to take their own daily attendance online.
• View Student Attendance
  • Allows users to access the "Attendance" tab of a student's detail (dashboard) view.
  • Recommended for your school's Attendance Administrators, students, if you wish for them to be able to see the dashboard attendance view, parents, if you wish for them to be able to see the dashboard attendance view, and teachers, if you wish for them to see the attendance dashboard for students.

Engagement

• View All Engagements
  • Allows users to access the "All Engagements" view, as well as edit all engagements.
  • Recommended for your school's Attendance Administrators.
• View Engagement
  • Allows users to access the "Engagement" tab in the header menu for viewing and editing only sections that the user teachers.
  • Recommended for anyone teaching a section who you wish to be able to take engagement.
• View Engagement Overview
  • Allows users to access the "Engagement Overview" view for their students (either in courses taught, or their students, if they are a counselor).
  • Recommended for anyone who you wish to have this view (works for teachers and counselors).
• View Engagement Dashboard
  • Allows users to access the "Engagement Dashboard" view and see who has and hasn't submitted engagement for the week.
  • Recommended for your school's Attendance Administrators.