[Mass Comms] New Attendance Status Merge Field for SIS Attendance Auto Notices

Overview You can now include specific attendance status information directly in your Auto Notice messages! If your school uses SIS Attendance for Auto Notices, you now have access to a new merge field that makes your attendance notifications more informative and personalized.

What's new: attendance_status merge field When setting up Auto Notices with SIS Attendance as your data source, you can now use the attendance_status merge field in your message templates. This will automatically populate with the specific attendance status from your SIS system.

Create more meaningful attendance messages Instead of sending generic attendance notifications, you can now craft messages that tell parents exactly what happened. For example, you can write: "Your student was attendance_status from school today" and parents will receive specific information like "Your student was absent from school today" or "Your student was tardy from school today."

Handles multiple attendance statuses If your school has configured multiple attendance statuses for a single Auto Notice, or if a student happens to have multiple statuses assigned, the merge field will display all relevant statuses separated by commas.

Perfect for schools with detailed attendance tracking This feature is especially useful if your school tracks various types of attendance (excused absence, unexcused absence, tardy, early dismissal, etc.) and wants to communicate these distinctions clearly to parents and guardians.