Compass guide

 

Important:

Resetting your password

If you get a message from Compass asking you to reset your password, you do not reset it yourself as it will 'lock you out' after three attempts.  Please contact the office as soon as you receive this message, and the office staff will immediately reset your password for you.

For any enquiries on Compass, please do not hesitate to contact the office staff.

Student Attendance

If a student arrives in class after 10.00am they will be marked absent on the morning roll and this will require parent approval on Compass with a reason.

Once a term in week 3 or 4 we will send home letters to families where there are unexplained student absences and or latenesses for which parents have not provided approval on Compass. These letters are to be completed and returned to the office so that student attendance records can be updated. If parent approval is not provided for an absence or lateness, the alert will remain on your Compass homepage and you will continue to receive the absence/lateness letters every term.

If your child has any unapproved absences or late arrivals, you will receive an alert on your

Compass home page letting you know this, and allowing you to add a Note or Approval.

Clicking on this notification will take you to the Unexplained tab for that child's attendance,

where you can choose to add a Note or Approval for one or more absences. To add a note or approval, select one or more of the absences listed, then select the 'Explain with

Note/Approval' button.

Please note that you cannot edit your notes or approvals after they've been created. If you

do need to make any amendments please contact the school office as they can do this for

you.

Adding a note/approval

Adding a Note/Approval for a Future Absence

You can also enter notes and approvals in advance, if you know that your child is going to be absent from school (e.g. scheduled family holiday).

To do this from your homepage, click on the 'Add Attendance Note/Approval' link listed

underneath the name of the relevant student.

This will take you to the Attendance screen, with a pop-up window to enter details of the

note or approval. Here you can select the applicable date range - in the future if required.

Emailing Staff 

Within Compass you can email the teachers of your children at the school, as well as any other staff members. From your Compass homepage one of the links underneath your child's name will be an option to email their teacher/s.

Clicking this link will open the email pop-up window, with all of the teachers for the student listed as recipients. You can select the red cross next to each recipient to remove them from the email, or click the 'Add Recipients' button at the top to add any other staff members.