Academy operations
Attendance register
Definition
An attendance register is chess academy software's per-session record of each student's status (present, absent, or late), the reason for any absence, who marked it and when, and what the mark triggered, such as a make-up credit or a coach follow-up. It replaces a paper sign-in sheet with a record built for reading patterns, not just for logging a mark.
In practice
Attendance register comes up wherever an academy compares coaching software, since vendors differ on whether the register only logs marks or actively drives make-up credits and coach follow-ups. Owners meet the term when training new coaches on the daily marking routine, when reconciling the make-up ledger against a term's absences, and when a monthly review pulls every batch's numbers into one view. The register sits next to two other operational words: batch, since every mark inherits its schedule context, and coach load, since a coach running several batches needs the register to surface which room needs attention first. It is not a stand-alone log; it is the input that other systems, make-up credits, parent updates, retention reviews, read from. For the marking routine, the absence-pattern rule, and how a monthly review turns marks into action, read the linked guide.