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What is Attendance?

Attendance is Satchel One’s online attendance management software, built into our all-in-one cloud MIS. Designed for both primary and secondary schools, it helps you register students, monitor attendance trends, and improve communication with families—all from one login.

The Attendance module that we've been using has again massively, help the school and improve the way that we're taking registers.
Assistant headteacher, Langtree School

Identify and respond to absences quickly

Our Daily Absences Dashboard gives Attendance Officers and pastoral staff a live view of all unauthorised absences. With instant access to guardian contact details and key student data, you can follow up on absences quickly and consistently.

  • Live dashboard of daily absentees
  • Guardian contact info surfaced directly from Satchel One MIS
  • Full visibility over patterns like erratic attendance or lateness
Image of Satchel One's Attendance app showcasing the Daily Absences Dashboard
Image of Satchel One's Attendance app showcasing the Daily Absences Dashboard
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Keep everyone informed

Satchel One makes it easy to keep attendance policies clear and ensure all staff and families are aligned. Teachers can leave notes, log attendance concerns, and communicate directly with colleagues or leadership teams.

  • Share attendance and punctuality scores with students and families
  • Record notes alongside registration marks for greater context
  • Support school-wide attendance strategy with clear, accessible data
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Take attendance anywhere

Whether in school, supporting blended learning, or managing alternative provision, Satchel One helps teachers register students from any device. It’s easy to log attendance in real time—no matter where learning is taking place.

  • Register students in class or remotely
  • Attach notes to any mark for clarity
  • Support hybrid or home learning with flexible tools
Image of Satchel One's Attendance app showcasing attendance and punctality rates
Image of Satchel One's Attendance app showcasing attendance and punctality rates
The attendance tools and reports are particularly impressive, offering clear, visual, and user-friendly data. We also greatly value the welfare notes feature, which facilitates seamless communication among staff about children of concern, ensuring that every child is supported and nurtured.
Co-Headteacher, Avondale Preparatory School
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Part of your cloud MIS

Satchel One’s Attendance module is built into your cloud MIS, giving staff the tools to take registers efficiently, track attendance patterns, and stay on top of absences—all in one place. Data is accessible across Satchel apps, helping reduce duplication and keep records consistent.

  • Take lesson-by-lesson attendance via your Teacher Agenda
  • Sync attendance codes and update student records automatically
  • Access attendance reporting within Satchel One
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Book a walkthrough

Want to see how Attendance works in action? Book a no-pressure call with our team today.

  • Taking registers
  • Daily Absences Dashboard
  • Whole-school attendance reporting
  • Surfacing Guardian Contact Details
  • Truancy Warning

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Are you a Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams School?

Satchel One works seamlessly alongside Google and Microsoft to help schools deliver the complete learning experience. Clever integrations make combined use of these platforms even more powerful. Schools have access to all the tools they need to support student learning, engage parents in the learning process, save teacher time, monitor student behaviour and facilitate distance or blended learning.

  • Official Microsoft Partner and Google for Education Partner
  • Share Satchel One tasks to Microsoft Teams or Google Classroom
  • Single sign-on with your Office 365 or Gmail account
  • Access award-winning tools that effectively support classroom management
  • Keep parents up to date with events and announcements via the parent app
  • Reduce teacher workload with streamlined apps
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Here's what our customers have to say about us

Attendance in your school

There are two versions of our Attendance software, Attendance Basic and Attendance Pro. Attendance Basic is available to most schools and syncs directly with your MIS to pull key attendance data and surface these for your teachers, parents and students.

Attendance Pro turns Satchel One into your school’s attendance hub. Teachers are able to take attendance directly from Satchel One and have it immediately sent back to SIMS whilst the Daily Absences Dashboard allows you to tackle absenteeism live as it occurs.

Attendance Basic

Available to most MIS

  • Display Attendance rates from your MIS to all stakeholders
  • Display Punctuality rates from your MIS to all stakeholders
  • Attendance Report
  • Admins define Attendance groups for the school
  • Take attendance in Satchel One
  • Writeback to SIMS
  • Attach comments to Attendance marks
  • Daily Absences Dashboard
  • Student Attendance breakdown
  • Access guardian contact details for parent follow up

Work with an award-winning company

Satchel is an award-winning company that currently works with over 4,500 schools globally and is recognised annually for our innovative products.

2024 Finalist
Learning Excellence Awards: Learning management systems

Satchel 2024 Finalist  for Learning Excellence Awards

2023 Winners
Response to Covid-19

Satchel win best in category at learning excellence awards

2021 Winners
Whole School Aids for Learning, Teaching & Assessment

Bett logo showing Satchel as winnders of Whole School Aids for Learning, Teaching & Assessment in 2021

2020 Winners
School Business Category

Teach Secondary Awards Logo showcasing Satchel as 4* winners in the School Business Category in 2020

2019 Winners
Edtech Innovator of the Year

The Techies Awards Logo showcasing Satchel as winners in the Edtech Innovator if the YEar cateogry in 2019

2018 Winners
Whole School Aids for Learning, Teaching & Assessment

Bett logo showing Satchel as winnders of Whole School Aids for Teaching, Learning and Assessment in 2018

2017 Winners
Secondary Resource or Equipment - Including ICT

ERA winners logo from 2017 showing Satchel as winners of Secondary Resource or Equipment including ICT

2017 Winners
Education Company of the Year

The Assignment Report logo showcasing winners of Education Company of the Year, awarded in 2017

2017 Winners
Digital Innovation in the Public Sector

Digital Entrepreneur Logo showcasing Satchel as winners of Digital Innovation in the Public Sector in 2017

2016 Winners
Upscale

Tech City Logo showing Satchel as part of Upscale in 2016

2016 Winners
EdtechXRise All Stars award

Edtech X Europe Award Logo showcasing Satchel as winners of EdtechXRise All Stars award in 2016
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