Why Make A Tardy Pass in SmartPass?
Having a Tardy Pass in SmartPass would allow teachers, or anyone viewing hall monitor to have an immediate reference to the student's place of origin and the fact that they are just showing up to school. Adding a Tardy Pass also allows you to have a filterable data point to use for conferences and interventions to show how often a student showed up late to school or class.
How Do I Make A Tardy Pass Room?
To build this we will need to create a new room. You can create a standalone room or create one to be housed within a folder. If you do choose to place it in a folder, we recommend using a Main Office folder. If you need a refresher on how to create a room, click HERE.
If creating a standalone room, click the +Add button located on the top right corner of the Rooms table. If you plan on placing your Tardy Pass room within a folder, click the 3 dot menu located on the far right of the desired folder's row to access the +Add New Room option.
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Steps to Build and Customize Your Tardy Pass
When deciding on a name, consider the terminology your school uses. Examples are: Tardy Pass, Attendance, Excused/Unexcused Tardy.
Add a room number. If your attendance office/main office does not have one, use an abbreviation.
For Travel Type, One-way.
Next, add a time limit
Being that students won't be using this as a destination you likely do not need to use any restrictions or max capacity settings. In this case we are adding no restrictions, so there is no need to make selections when it comes to Pass Restrictions.
Pulling Tardy Data
Now if you want to filter out who had been written a Tardy Pass you can do so using the Explore tab to do a Pass Search and look this room up by origin. You can also click to export this data.
đĄTIP: Follow these same steps to create an Early Dismissal pass. This will allow the same sort of visibility of movement and data as the Tardy Pass!
FAQ
How do I make the Tardy Pass process even easier for my office staff?
Consider setting up a kiosk in your office for students to make their own pass to class.
Can I have more than one type of Tardy Pass?
Absolutely. If you find breaking this down can provide more data and clarity on your campus, you can do this. One such example is creating a Tardy Excused and a Tardy Unexcused.