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steveshogren / overseer

An attendance tracking system
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Build Form For Accepting Parent Absence Request #41

Open steveshogren opened 7 years ago

steveshogren commented 7 years ago

Now that we have parent emails, we can built out a way to have the parents email in or something to indicate why a student will be absent. Perhaps a doctors note image or the like.

steveshogren commented 7 years ago

I dont have any great ideas at this time how to build this.

schmave commented 7 years ago

Whoa, that's a cool idea to receive email on the Attendance Clerk's behalf! Interesting...

steveshogren commented 7 years ago

Yeah, I'm thinking something where they go to a page, then put in their email address, it shows them the students associated with that email address, they pick one, it emails them a link, they click that, and then they can input the day and the reason and an attachment. Kinda complicated, but then we don't need authentication.

steveshogren commented 7 years ago

Otherwise I'm not sure how to receive email easily, I'll look into that today. Maybe something like you put the student's full name as the subject and the reason?

schmave commented 7 years ago

Yeah, if the student's name is in the subject that would work probably. You have the parent's email from the "From" address, so that narrows down the options. It sounds a bit error-prone but kind of fun :)