# Attendance app w multiple teachers - help **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [June 27, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/attendance-app-w-multiple-teachers-help/82775 "2025-06-27T10:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AttendanceTrial](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/attendancetrial/32/93513_2.png) [@AttendanceTrial](https://community.glideapps.com/u/AttendanceTrial)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/attendance-app-w-multiple-teachers-help/82775/1 "2025-06-27T10:04:23Z")
Hi everyone I’m trying to create an Attendance app for the after school activity that I run. I have so far created a table in Glide labeled students - with their names, email addresses, and the different classes they’re taking. I also have a table named ‘Classes’ where I list all of the classes we offer + their day and the time, as well as a column with a Relation to have all students who are enrolled in the class listed there. Next, I have a table called Attendance with columns for ‘date’, ‘class’, ‘student’ and a boolean ‘present?’ yes/no. However, I’m stuck. If a teacher would open the app, they can select the class they teach from a list. Then, all students in that class are listed. This is how far I got. What I want now is for all the students to be marked as present by default (I tried using a checkbox but I cannot get this to work 😭. Then, preferably with just one click of a button, the teacher could tap ‘confirm attendance’ or something and it would track all students that are marked/checked as present to present and the unchecked ones as absent. I worry my question is quite complicated/convoluted/complex, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I’ve been reading through some other help posts and was honestly pleasantly surprised by how helpful and non-condescending the replies were. Thanks for reading and any possible help you can give me! ![New Project](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/b/2/b20916eadf5b90739b4628e6a01d709317765c64.png) ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/attendance-app-w-multiple-teachers-help/82775/2 "2025-06-27T23:47:43Z")
Does it have to be a checklist? If by default, most people will attend, would it be possible for you to store something like this: | Date | Absent List (IDs) | Full List (IDs) | | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-06-28 | 102, 105 | 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 | | 2025-06-29 | 104 | 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 | | 2025-06-30 | | 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 | Then you can use some Glide array columns to figure out the list of people who attended. In your “attendance form”, you can have a choice component that writes to the absent list. Assuming you don’t have too many absentees, that shouldn’t be too difficult. Then, a special column to write the current date to the table above. ---
**Author:** ![AttendanceTrial](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/attendancetrial/32/93513_2.png) [@AttendanceTrial](https://community.glideapps.com/u/AttendanceTrial)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/attendance-app-w-multiple-teachers-help/82775/3 "2025-07-01T08:20:33Z")
Oh wow, thank you so much! This helped me a TON and now it actually works. Thanks again!!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 8:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/attendance-app-w-multiple-teachers-help/82775/4 "2025-07-08T08:21:16Z")
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