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title: "COVID-19 Attendance Questions - Quarantine/Testing/COVID"
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updated: 2026-03-11T18:05:14Z
published: 2026-03-11T18:05:14Z
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# COVID-19 Attendance Questions - Quarantine/Testing/COVID

**COVID-19 Attendance Questions - Quarantine/Testing/COVID**

SchoolWise has been contacted by LEAs who have started their 2021–22 school year and are dealing with many cases of COVID-19 infections and exposures, compelling them to send students and staff into quarantine. The most common question we have been receiving is: How do I protect my average daily attendance (ADA) for the period that students are in quarantine? While we can't say that this is the only approach to the problem (please check with your own auditors and CDE) we have been told by some auditors that the best way to handle this is with **Short Term Independent Study**.

*Please check with your auditor to find out exactly what situation best fits your specific LEA. SchoolWise can help you to implement a solution for you if you require something besides short-term IS to handle this.*

**Question:** How do I mark students in SchoolWise who are on quarantine or waiting for test results?

**Answer:** Most auditors suggest that you should use **Short Term Independent Study** to handle this.

**What is the COVID Absent reason used for?** The COVID absent reason was set up in SchoolWise as a specific way to track who was out sick with a contracted case of COVID-19. Some schools wanted this specific reason to be in place it is up to you on how to use it. Setting a student's Absent reason to COVID loses ADA as do ALL absences **except IS Credit**

Here are some more related documents that might be of interest:

[**Click here to see an Analysis of Assembly Bill 167**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vLyXkD1-5Ljl15f2di2vVFPVmkU64e_A/view?usp=sharing)

**Documents from: School Services of California Inc. (SSC)** [Ask SSC . . . How Do I Protect ADA When Students Quarantine_ _ SSC.pdf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a1gRS_E0TVN8IVhaOusuHFBwxF_RVnjB/view?usp=sharing) [Help! I’ve Quarantined and I Can’t Get (My ADA) Up! _ SSC.pdf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12r9krX1gFtvRwf8bXjdRq7pSBcvWUpC2/view?usp=sharing)

**COVID-19 Related Resources** [https://www.sscal.com/covid-19-related-resources](https://www.sscal.com/covid-19-related-resources)