It would be good if future absences would pull through on the Out of School Report, for those that have regular authorised absences.
Regular absences have to be manually entered on each occasion on the OOS option, which is very time consuming. The Future Absences is a much user friendly way of adding absences to, but do not currently show up when we run the OOS Report.
It is very time consuming to enter OOS when it is for multiple days, but only for certain times.
In the case of study leave, when pupils need to be marked out for lessons, but not for AM/PM registration, each day has to be entered seperately and in two batches to accommodate the PM registration in the middle of the lessons.
Future absence had a more user friendly option of allowing times and dates beginning from, or daily, but this does not feed through to other modules/systems like OOS does.
A combination of features from both modules that enables the best of both would be more suitable.