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# Viewing and Editing a Participant's Impulses

An impulse is a credit that allows a participant to make up a missed lesson — every valid reported absence generates one impulse, which the participant can use to sign up for a lesson at a different time. You can manually extend the expiry date of an impulse, grant a participant an additional one, or delete an existing one.

## Changing an impulse expiry date

Go to the *Participants* tab and open the client's profile. In the *Making up absences* section you will see all reported absences, along with the date each impulse expires and a *Change expiry date* button.

Click the button and select the new date you want to extend the impulse to.

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## Granting an additional impulse

Go to the *Participants* tab and open the participant's profile. At the bottom you will find the *Making up absences* section. Click *Manage impulses* on the right, then select *Grant an additional impulse*.

When granting the impulse, choose the date it should be valid until.

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## Removing or changing the expiry date of additional impulses

To remove an additional impulse, open the participant's profile, go to the *Making up absences* section, and click *Manage impulses*.

From there you can both change the expiry date of impulses and delete them.


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