edge includes two dashboard widgets that give you an at-a-glance picture of attendance at your school: YTD Attendance Rate, a pie chart of the year-to-date attendance breakdown, and Today's Attendance Statistics, a table showing how many students are currently marked with each attendance code today. Both widgets are added from the dashboard widget catalogue and require the View Attendance Analysis and Reports permission.
edge includes two dashboard widgets that give you an at-a-glance picture of attendance at your school: YTD Attendance Rate, a pie chart of the year-to-date attendance breakdown, and Today's Attendance Statistics, a table showing how many students are currently marked with each attendance code today. Both widgets are added from the dashboard widget catalogue and require the View Attendance Analysis and Reports permission.
Adding the widgets to your dashboard
- Go to your edge dashboard (home page).
- Open the widget catalogue and locate YTD Attendance Rate and/or Today's Attendance Statistics.
- Add the widget — it appears on your dashboard immediately.
If you cannot see these widgets in the catalogue, your account does not have the View Attendance Analysis and Reports permission — ask your edge administrator to update your role or permissions.
Screenshot: Dashboard widget catalogue showing the two attendance widgets
YTD Attendance Rate widget
This widget shows a pie chart of attendance from the start of the current year to today. Every attendance code recorded in that period is grouped into its Ministry of Education truancy category, and the chart shows one slice per category:
| Category | Meaning |
|---|---|
| P | Present |
| J | Justified Absence |
| U | Unjustified Absence |
| O | Overseas Holiday |
Each slice is labelled with its percentage and category letter. Hovering over a slice shows a tooltip with the full category name, the count of entries out of the total, and the percentage. Categories with no recorded entries are hidden. Clicking the chart takes you to the Attendance Summary page for a more detailed breakdown.
The widget's data is calculated once per day and cached for the school, refreshing overnight — so changes you make to attendance during the day may not appear in the pie chart until the next morning.
Screenshot: YTD Attendance Rate pie chart widget
Teacher accounts see their own students only
The scope of the pie chart depends on the type of account viewing it:
- Administrator / office accounts see the attendance breakdown for every student on the school roll for the year to date.
- Teacher-only accounts see the breakdown for only the students in the classes they teach. If the teacher has a class selected in the class selector, the chart is limited to that class; otherwise it covers the students across all timetabled classes the teacher is attached to.
This is expected behaviour, not a data problem. If a teacher and an office user compare dashboards and see different percentages, it is because the teacher's chart is scoped to their own students while the office user's chart covers the whole school.
Today's Attendance Statistics widget
This widget shows a live table of today's attendance position for the whole school:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Attendance Code | The code description, e.g. Present (P), with the code in brackets |
| Students | How many students are currently marked with that code |
| % | The percentage of total enrolled students |
Points to note:
- The statistics are based on the most recent attendance code recorded against each student today — if a student was marked Late in the morning and Present later, they count under the later code.
- Present and Late are combined into a single "Present or Late" row, with the number of late students noted alongside.
- Students with no attendance recorded yet today appear in a Not recorded row.
- A Total enrolled students row shows the roll count the percentages are calculated against.
- The widget is unavailable early in the morning — it displays a message until 9:15am, after which today's statistics appear.
Unlike the YTD pie chart, this widget always shows whole-school numbers.
The same statistics also power the Attendance panel in the Teacher Home side menu, so teachers using the Teacher Home view see the identical table there.
Screenshot: Today's Attendance Statistics widget showing the code breakdown table