How to create a custom list view button?

I need a custom list view button that would create a record in a related module for each record selected.

Some background: The purpose of this function to track attendance. I have a custom module "students" and a custom module "attendance." These two modules are related by a lookup field "student." I would like to see my students in a list view and select who was in attendance each day. I would select the records and then use the custom button to create a related record "attendance" for each student that was present that day. The "attendance" module has a date field and it would be useful if the custom button could prompt me to input the date (it would be the same for all selected "students"), this way if i miss a day and need to go back and enter you was in attendance I could enter a past date.

I've done this function in salesforce, but I would like to switch to ZOHO CRM, but I need to make sure this is possible.

Any help would be appreciated, as I am very new to this.

Thanks!

FYI module students = custommodule1, module attendance = custommodule2