Absence notification - make it automatic if child not arrived by a certain time
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Vanessa Merchant
Great to see that Xplor have put this notification in place for absences where parents are notified when their child is marked absent by an educator or centre staff. It will ensure the safety of children a little bit more.
However, it would be even better if an automatic notification was sent to the parents/guardians at a particular time as some services would not mark children absent until mid morning, by which time, it may be too late.
I am aware that another CCMS company has implemented something similar and parents now get a notification at approximately the time they usually do drop off as the system is able to determine that time.
Hopefully this is something that Xplor can also implement.
Training Team
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Absentee Notification
Meg Barnden-Hyde
Can there be an automatic absentee notification feature added to the xplor platform? Allowing services, to set up if a child isn't at the Centre by a certain time.
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Kylie Law
Great Idea but have it optional and allow centres to pick the time it become automatic
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Vanessa Merchant
Kylie Law Optional would be even better and allow centres to choose if they want to use this tool or not. If centres could then choose the time, it would be better.
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Deborah Sizemore
Automatic absence marking would not work for our service as we live in an area that is dominated by shift workers. At times Mum drops the child in at 3pm and Dad collects at 5pm.
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Emily Bruin
Yes please. We don’t mark kids absent unless told they will be absent because they are allowed to arrive at any time and often do. An automatic notification, either calculated or at a time of the parent’s choosing, would be fantastic.
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Emily Bruin
This was asked for in multiple threads last week and Xplor has marked it as “complete” as I don’t think they understood what everyone was asking for. Thank you for bringing it up again! I hope all previous voters vote for this again.