Automated Attendance Anomaly Alerts
Every morning, WebRun opens PowerSchool, reads the daily attendance grid, flags students with an absence spike or a tardy streak against their recent pattern, logs each case to a sheet, and posts your attendance team a Slack list to act on today.
How can I spot student attendance problems early automatically?
Every morning, WebRun opens PowerSchool, reads the daily attendance grid, and compares each student against their recent pattern. It flags absence spikes, tardy streaks, and unexplained gaps, logs them to a Google Sheet, and posts your attendance team an internal Slack list, so emerging attendance problems get a human follow-up early.
- Attendance problems surface in days, not at the quarter mark
- Each flagged student names the pattern that triggered it
- The team starts the day with a ranked follow-up list
Built for school administrators · attendance clerks · school counselors · deans of students
What does WebRun do on every run?
The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.
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WebRun signs in and gets to work
Opens
www.powerschool.comin a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys. -
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PowerSchool - pull today's attendance
powerschool.com
WebRun reads the PowerSchool daily attendance grid. - Open PowerSchool and go to the daily Attendance Data Grid
- Read each attendance code, absences, tardies, and arrival times for the day
- Compare today against each student's recent pattern to spot anomalies
Done when Today's attendance has been read and each student's pattern checked for an anomaly.
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Google Sheets - track the patterns
google.com
WebRun logs each attendance anomaly into a tracking sheet. - Log each flagged student with the anomaly type and recent count
- Mark absence spikes and tardy streaks so the urgent cases sort to the top
- Keep a running history so repeat patterns become visible
Done when Every flagged student is logged with the anomaly type and a recent count.
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Slack - post who to follow up
slack.com
WebRun posts the attendance anomaly list to your team in Slack. - Post a short internal list of students whose attendance looks off today
- Note the anomaly for each: an absence spike, a tardy streak, or an unexplained gap
- Leave it for the attendance team to follow up with families and counselors
Done when Your attendance team has today's anomaly list in Slack.
How is each run configured?
Secure by default
Connect once, stays signed in
WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.
Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.
Questions, answered
Will it contact families on its own?
No. This workflow is an internal heads-up only. WebRun reads attendance and posts your team a Slack list to review. Any outreach to a family or counselor stays a human decision your office makes after looking at the case.
What counts as an anomaly?
WebRun compares today's PowerSchool attendance against each student's recent pattern and flags departures from it: a sudden spike in absences, a run of consecutive tardies, or an unexplained gap, rather than a single isolated absence.
Does it change any attendance records?
No. WebRun only reads the PowerSchool attendance grid. It never edits a code, marks a student present or absent, or alters the record. Corrections stay with your office inside PowerSchool.
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