Manual
Each Presente feature, step by step, by profile. Presente records attendance at practical activities (lessons, shifts, internships) and the assessment staff make of each student: grades by criterion, supervision level, final feedback.
How Presente is organised
- Institution ⊃ discipline ⊃ class. An institution has disciplines; each discipline has classes; each class has enrolled students and activities.
- Activity: a practical session of the class, with a date, an optional time and a place. It can be mandatory or optional.
- Attendance request: the student requests attendance for an activity; whoever assesses the class confirms or rejects. A person always decides.
- Criteria: each discipline defines what the assessor fills in when confirming (a grade per criterion, with a name and description per language).
- Grades and feedback: students only see grades and feedback once the class releases them.
A person has one account (one email) and can act at several institutions, with different roles at each.
Which page is for whom
| You are... | Start with |
|---|---|
| Anyone, on first access | Account and sign-in |
| A student | For students |
| Someone who assesses attendance (preceptor, instructor, assistant with “can assess”) | For assessors |
| Someone who sets up classes, activities and students | Setup |
| An institution curator or the platform administrator | Administration |
For everyone: Attendance rules and Notices and class conversation.
Roles
| Role | Where it applies | What it does, in short |
|---|---|---|
| Platform administrator | The whole platform | Creates institutions and sets the platform defaults. |
| Curator | Institution | Manages people, parameters, terms of use and the audit log; sets up disciplines and classes. |
| Preceptor | Institution | Follows along; assesses when the binding has the “can assess” flag. |
| Coordinator | Discipline | Sets up the discipline's classes, activities and students. |
| Instructor | Class | Follows the class; assesses with the “can assess” flag. |
| Assistant | Discipline or class | Follows along, read-only. |
Two binding flags add capabilities: can assess and can set up. The Roles and permissions screen (the “More” menu) shows the exact table the server applies. For the technical form, see Permissions in the integration guide.
Languages
The app and this manual exist in Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish and English (US). Each person's language is set in their profile; the initial language comes from the country given at registration.
Integrating with other systems
To bring students, classes and activities in from an academic system, or to read attendance, read the integration guide and the API reference.