The screen above shows what you see when you select Covers from the SchoolBase Online Staff main menu. This area enables you to report your absence from school and notify the staff who will be assigned to cover of the lesson content you were intending to teach.

The first step is to say when you will be away.

In the example below, the logged on member of staff is going to be away from school for one day's sickness in December.

When you have selected the start and end dates, the Period dropdown activates, showing the available periods for the selected days (you may be reporting a part-day's absence e.g. for a medical appointment). Having selected the periods of absence, press 'Generate Cover' and a list of periods, dates and groups for the lessons to be missed will become available. There is a note field alongside each group where you can fill in the lesson content, or other note for the covering teacher.