International School of Tianjin
International School of Tianjin

Class Cover Request

Report an absence and arrange cover for your classes.

Sign in with your IST Microsoft account.

Changes you submit here apply to the selected teacher.

Attendance snapshot

What are you here to do?

Attendance history

If a record needs correcting, please contact HR.

Which periods will you miss?

Select the periods you will be absent, including free periods. The same selection applies to each selected date. Review the classes below, and tick any duties or CCA sessions you will miss. Choose periods before adding notes or files.

Add any notes or files the cover person will need. If a class is missing or wrong, use + Add another class / period.

My requests

Select your name on the Request cover tab first — this list follows whoever's picked there.
Uncovered — tap to take it Covered
Uncovered — tap to take it Covered

Real alerts (admin)

Turn these on to get an actual desktop notification when something needs you — the uncovered-slot alert, the 8am check-in, new requests — even if this tab isn't the one you're looking at. Requires the tab to stay open somewhere; a fully closed browser needs a real backend (Resend/push), which comes next.

Mark a TA absent (admin)

Homerooms are normally covered silently by the TA above — this is the only case that needs a click. It opens exactly that TA's homerooms for someone else to pick up.

Secondary TA coverage this year

Elementary duty cover rotation

Additional duty covers only; regular grade-level classroom cover does not count.

My department

Only mark the exceptions. Anyone you don't mark counts as present.

Marked today

Today

CCA absences

DatePersonCCATimeWhy

Absences that teachers submit through the cover form appear here on their own. Everything on this list goes to Guo Ying in the 7:30am email that day. Nothing here counts toward anyone's attendance record.

Mark someone absent from a CCA

Report dashboard

Leave by area

Sick Personal Other (PD, school business, other)

Top leave users

Staff memberAreaTotal daysSickPersonalOtherLateStatus
Click a name for their full record.

Limit alerts

Raise a Concern

Confidential HR report to Steve Moody, Director. Review the attendance figures and your comments before sending.

Automatically generated evidence

Review confidential report

Only selected recipients will receive this confidential report. Attendance figures are recalculated when sent.

Daily Attendance Report

One click, one email each: the Director gets the whole school; each principal gets only their own school. Today's absences and late arrivals by category, plus year-to-date totals.

Monthly Attendance Report

Year-to-date days by area, then each person within the area. Goes out by itself on the last day of every month at 4:00 pm — the Director gets the whole school, each principal their own school.

Report on specific people

On the Current status tab, tick the boxes next to any names — a red bar appears where you choose who receives their full record (this year or all years).

Absences to date — 2026–27

TeacherTotalSickPersonalPDSchoolOtherLateBreakdown
Sick Personal Professional development School business Other Late arrival (count)
0 selected— send their full attendance record to:
Days: a half day counts 0.5. Late arrivals are counted as occurrences and are not included in the day total. Click a teacher for their snapshot.

Record an absence

Anything a teacher submits through the request form appears here automatically. Use this for absences that didn't go through the form, or to correct one.
Days (half day = 0.5), late arrivals as a count. One entry per teacher per year — saving again replaces it.