How Schools Can Automate Daily Attendance Reports
The best attendance report is the one nobody had to write.
The problem with manual reports
Somebody collects registers from every class, adds up the columns, and types a summary. It takes hours, it happens after the fact, and by the time it reaches the head teacher it describes a week that is already over.
What automatic reporting looks like
When attendance is recorded at the gate, the numbers already exist. The daily figure is visible as the morning happens; class and termly totals are there whenever someone asks. Reports can be exported, and scheduled reports can be emailed to the people who read them.
GatePass produces daily, class and termly attendance automatically, with every report included — try it free for a term.
Start freeWhich reports matter
- Daily: who is in school today, who is late, who is absent.
- Class: which classes have attendance problems.
- Term: each pupil's attendance across the term, for reports and parent meetings.
- Patterns: pupils absent or late repeatedly.
From report to decision
A report is only worth producing if it changes something. Agree who reads which report and what they do with it — the class teacher calls the family of a pupil absent three days running; the head teacher looks at a class whose attendance keeps falling.
Common questions
Do reports cost extra?+
Not with GatePass — reports are part of every plan, never a paid add-on.
Ntale Livingstone
Founder, GatePass
I started GatePass because no parent should have to phone the school to find out if their child made it there. I write here about what really happens at the gate, in the register and at home, and what we're building to fix it.
