Replace your paper passes for tardies and late arrivals using 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.

To build this we will need to create a new room. You have 2 options: the first is to make it a standalone room and the second is to make it a room within a folder (We recommend your main office be a folder, and you place this room in that folder). If you need a refresher on how to do so, please the how to link for Creating a Room.

For the purposes of these instructions we will start from the "New Room" page of a Folder.

1) First you will want to decide what to title it, this might be Tardy Pass, Attendance, Excused/Unexcused Tardy, or whatever terminology your building might use.

2) You need to add a room number, which if your attendance office/main office does not have one, use an abbreviation.

3) Next you will want to toggle it to be "One Way"

4) Next add a time limit

5) 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 scroll down to those settings.

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.

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!