Teacher Assist – Absence notes

Teacher Assist – Absence notes #

Teacher Assist is a tool that allows teachers in Google Classroom to view and control students’ screens in the Google Chrome browser.

Absence Notes is a feature that allows the Teacher to track and note the students who are not present in the Classroom session.

Add an absence note #

Start a classroom session and view all the students who are currently active.

Navigate to Teacher Assist > Teacher > Classrooms > Start session

View all active or inactive students part of the classroom

For inactive students, you will see a “blank screen” and the message “connection pending”.

Click on “Add absence”, and a menu option will be displayed.

Enter the details for the Absence Note

• Absent reason – select any of the reasons for the absence
• Description – enter a description for the absence
• Add – click to save the absence note

Saved notes will be visible and accessible to the Teachers of the Classrooms.

View the Absence Notes for the Classroom session #

The Absence Notes can be seen in the Session Tools tab.

Click on the 3 dots in the classroom session and select “Absence notes” from the list of options.

NOTE: The Absence Note is specifically for the current Classroom session

This will show all the Absence Notes for the Classroom session.

View the details

• Full name – name of student
• Reason – reason for the absence
• Created – when it was created
  • Details to see further details of it
  • Pen icon – edit the absence note
  • Bin/Trash icon – delete the absence note