# Possible attendance inconsistency with non-student user enrolled in class as "Student"

**URL:** <https://ask.gibbonedu.org/t/possible-attendance-inconsistency-with-non-student-user-enrolled-in-class-as-student/15549>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [April 6, 2026, 8:46am UTC](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/t/possible-attendance-inconsistency-with-non-student-user-enrolled-in-class-as-student/15549 "2026-04-06T08:46:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baptiste06150](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@Baptiste06150](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/u/Baptiste06150)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 8:46am UTC](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/t/possible-attendance-inconsistency-with-non-student-user-enrolled-in-class-as-student/15549/1 "2026-04-06T08:46:19Z")

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Hello,  
I found a possible inconsistency in Attendance.  
I enrolled a teacher/staff user in a class with local class role Student.  
Then I took class attendance and marked this person Absent.  
Later, I deleted all attendance records from Attendance by Person.  
Everything looked clean there, but in Attendance Trends I still had one mysterious absence when selecting All in the Form Group filter.  
After checking the database, I found that this remaining log belonged to the teacher/staff user who had been added to the class as local role Student.  
So it seems:  
class attendance accepts this user because of the local role  
but Attendance by Person and some other screens do not treat this person as a normal student  
which can leave an attendance log visible in reports but difficult to remove in the UI  
This looks like an inconsistency between:  
class membership with role Student  
and “real students” available in person-based attendance tools  
Maybe Gibbon should either block this case, or handle it consistently across attendance screens.  
Has anyone else encountered this?