Track student attendance from CSV, email parents, and build an HTML dashboard — n8n Workflow

High complexity⏰ Scheduled18 nodes🏷️ Miscellaneous👁 1 viewsby Tejasv Makkar

Overview

🚀 Overview

Automatically monitors daily student attendance from CSV files, identifies absent students, sends parent email alerts via SMTP, calculates risk scores, and generates an interactive HTML dashboard — all on a weekday schedule with no manual work needed.

⚙️ How it works

Schedule trigger — runs Monday–Friday at 17:30 Data ingestion — reads student_attendance.csv and filters to today's records only Absence check — splits students into Absent / Present branches Contact merge — matches ab

Nodes used

Send EmailCode

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How it works
1. Runs every weekday at 17:30 (Mon–Fri)
2. Reads `student_attendance.csv` and filters to today'
3. Splits students into Absent / Present branches
4. Fetches parent cont
Trigger & data ingestion
Schedule trigger reads attendance CSV and filters to to
Absence routing & contact merge
Splits absent vs present students, fetches parent conta
Alert logic
Calculates risk level, attendance %, streak, and trend
Parent notifications
Generates and sends a colour-coded HTML email alert to
No absences branch
Skips email and dashboard when all students are present
Dashboard & report update
Builds interactive HTML dashboard and appends today's r
No Absences Today
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Recurring Time Trigger
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Student Attendance Data
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Extract Attendance CSV
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IF: Is Absent?
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Students Contacts
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Extract Contacts CSV
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Merge Absent + Contacts
Alert Logic Block
Generate Absence Email
Build Dashboard and Report
Send Email
E
Existing Report History
E
Extract History CSV
Combine History + Build …
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Convert Data
B
Build Visual Report and …
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Date Filter
18 nodes19 edges

How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a scheduled trigger, running on a defined schedule.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 18 nodes, connecting code, converttofile, emailsend.

  3. 3

    Output

    The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (18)

SE

Send Email

emailSend

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CO

Code

code

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How to Import This Workflow

  1. 1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
  2. 2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
  3. 3Select the downloaded track-student-attendance-from-csv-email-parents-and-build-an-html-dashboard file and click Import.
  4. 4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
  5. 5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Track student attendance from CSV, email parents, and build an HTML dashboard", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

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Nodes18
Complexityhigh
Triggerscheduled
Views1
CategoryMiscellaneous

Created by

Tejasv Makkar

Tejasv Makkar

@tmakkar

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