Attendance Check-in and Check-out | WiseData 2025-26 Upgrade | Maintenance and Bug Fixes
Attendance Check-in and Check-out
We've enhanced Educate’s attendance tracking system by introducing 
check-in and check-out times
, enabling bulk actions
, ensuring data consistency
, and improving the user interface
for better usability. This update is available to both Teachers and Admins views. ✅ Key Features Delivered
- Check-in and Check-out Times
- Fields were added to capture exact check-in and check-out times for students.
- This addressed a major user request for minute-level attendance tracking
- This data point is optional. Feel free to use it if it adds value for you—otherwise, you can continue tracking attendance without updating the timestamp
- Implemented on the following Attendance pages
- ⮞Classroom ⮞ Attendance page ⮞ Daily and Weekly view
- ⮞School ⮞ Instruction ⮞ Attendance page
- ⮞School ⮞Student ⮞Attendance By Grade
- ⮞Student profile ⮞ Attendance
- ⮞Bulk Action and History Modal of the above pages
- Bulk Action Capability
- A bulk update feature is added similar to attendance types, allowing administrators and teachers to set default times for all students and adjust them individually.
- UI fixes and validations were implemented to ensure accurate time saving across modules
- Data Consistency
- Attendance data syncs across all relevant system pages, ensuring unified records and reducing discrepancies
- Validations were added to ensure correct time entries and prevent data loss.
📊 Benefits to Highlight
- Accurate Tracking: Enables minute-level monitoring of student attendance - a requirement for many states for PreK - 12 schools. Track how many minutes students with IEPs or 504 Plans (often called “inclusion kids”) spend in general education classrooms.
- Administrative Efficiency: Bulk updates save time for staff.
- Data Consistency: Unified attendance records across modules.
- Detailed Reporting: Supports compliance and informed decision-making.Coming soon
WiseData 2025-26 Upgrade
We’ve upgraded several API endpoints to ensure compliance with
WISEData
requirements for the 2025–26 school year
. These updates include changes to data types, which have been successfully handled on the backend.Please note that these enhancements are
not visible in the user interface
. As a result, administrators syncing data with Wise may not notice any immediate differences.Additionally, we now support
credential sets that vary by school year
, in accordance with Wise’s specifications. - Collect your new credentials for the 2025-26 school year from WISEData
- To update it in Educate, admins will need to set the school year to 2025-26, then go to Setup tab, click on WISE in the Data section, update the credentials in the "Wise Settings" section and save it. Now you can continue sending data to WISE as usual.
For further details, refer to the official DPI guidance on the https://dpi.wi.gov/wisedata/help/mini-tutorials/edcred.
Maintenance and Bug Fixes
🔄
ActiveMQ Upgrade
: We’ve upgraded ActiveMQ, the communication bridge between multiple system components. This upgrade enhances overall functionality, improves performance, addresses security vulnerabilities, and ensures compatibility with modern technologies.📝 
Forms – Hard Error Fix
: Previously, a hard error occurred when a school/admin used the anonymous form link
and a response had already been submitted via that link. This issue has now been resolved. The system now handles such cases, allowing continued use of anonymous links without errors. 💳 
Payment Issue on Safari
: An issue that prevented parents from making payments using the Safari browser
has been fixed. Users on Apple devices or Safari should now be able to complete payments without any problems.