[MEDIUM] Teacher. Attendance

[weavora]

@getzerebral we are about to work on attendance logic from tomorrow and I'd like to discuss a few things with you before that.

1. I assume this is available for teacher only, students should not see this page? (just to confirm)
2. On the right hand side i suggest to have same calendar for easy navigation. We may rethink this approach in case we'd have more columns and space shortage
3. How often comments will be used? Do we need more space for them or one line text field with tooltip on hover will be enough?
4. The typical scenario should be as follows:
   1. Teacher click "Attendance" page
   2. We show's editable form for today by default (no matter if it was filled earlier today, i assume teacher can correct any previous entry and update it, correct?)
   3. Teacher set class attendance
   4. Teacher click "Submit attendance button"
   5. ?? After page refresh we show a notification that form was successfully saved. Should we redirect teacher to some other page?
5. I assume in future we may have "Journal" logic so that teacher could see class attendance for past week or month. What do you think?
6. I was thinking if we need a separate UI for edit attendance and preview past entries? Maybe teacher should not be able to change attendance for yesterday or earlier? Maybe after attendance submit we should show another UI without checkboxes? What do you think?

[JackMcGrath]

@weavora

1. Teachers are the only users that need this level of access. I could see students and parents benefitting from simple reporting (we can talk about this later as its not critical at this point)
2. Not sure if the calendar will be required for attendance entry (the date selector should be enough) maybe use the calendar for the journal for easy date changes.
3. I'm not fully sure how much room we will need here or how often they will be used. If we remove the calendar we should have some more space though.
4. It all sounds good, nice and easy. 4.2 correct 4.5 I'm don't think a redirect is necessary
5. I think this a great idea
6. I think teachers will still need to edit for past events (just in case of an entry error) I think that the journal would work well as the layout is now without the checkboxes and the single date picker. It's is where the calendar comes in useful for changing dates easily.

[weavora]

@alex-shevchuk lets start with the following:

• separate page for attendance available only for a teacher
• form (grid) for today attendance
• on submit save data into database and show success message on top Heads up! Attendance for <date> was successfully saved.
• we do not need calendar on the right; lets try to make username longer a bit and comments to utilize all space
• lets use radiobuttons instead of checkboxes (thus it would be obvious that multiple items are impossible)

[staeron]

Looks good

[JackMcGrath]

@weavora The only issue I see is that in using radio buttons vs. checkboxes is that we cannot record if a student is absent. I see either two options. Use a checkbox on Present/Absent or more fitting add an absent option radio button for selection.

[weavora]

Few UI corrections

[alex-shevchuk]

TODO:

• UI fixes
• Saving of Absent not work

[staeron]

Looks good