We are struggling to use the Future Absence lists at the moment as the students registered this way don't appear in the Out of School list. Personally I don't understand why they wouldn't. Surely an absence mark as a Future Absence is the same as an absence mark made on the day. Anyway, this is causing us no end of nuisance and we can't seem to get a single list of daily absences that includes both OOS and those marked with a future absence mark.
This really needs to be fixed to ensure the useability of this very useful function.
Thank you for adding a suggestion to the Ideas Portal. The Registration Status Report includes students who have been marked as Out of School, as well as students who are absent on the register.
We are currently working on enhancements to the Out of School feature, so it will have the useful features from Future Absence (for example, the ability to create recurring instances of an absence), as well as improving the wizard to make it easier for users. This will mean that schools should only need one method of recording of absences in future, rather than using two separate methods, which are recorded differently in the system. Hope this helps.