A Hall Pass for the Modern School Era

I can picture it now. My body was in my desk, but my mind was somewhere else a million miles away. Many times between the formative years of 6th and 12th grade, I found myself in this situation—bored out of my mind in the classroom. So, like many other students before and after me, I'd simply make up a reason to leave. Even if just for a few moments. I'd savor those few moments and wander the halls with a reckless abandon. No plans, no concept of time, almost like a road trip across the continental United States. For those few moments, I was free.

Only to be immediately brought back to reality when I remembered the hall pass in my hand. Hall passes took many different forms and shapes during my tenure as a student. Sometimes they were giant wooden blocks attached to a key ring. Other times it was something as simple as a post it note if the teacher was brave enough to use something so easily recreated by a couple of brave students. But one thing always remained true: you weren't stepping across the threshold of your classroom without that hall pass.

Cue the 21st century, and the rise of technology and mobile devices is a whole lot more prevalent than those days. Yet, the hall pass remains! It's still a necessary tool for educators to issue to students to run out of classroom errands, grab a textbook from their locker, or hit the hallways for a mental break. Except, now we can allow those passes to take a digital form. If you have an app for your school by SchoolInfo, chances are you've used one of our top features before—the digital hall pass!

• Hall Passes can be issued directly on a student’s device, a class device, or remotely from
  your Dashboard.
• Hall passes display the reason for the student to be out of class, who approved the pass, the student who the pass was issued to, the time/date and a countdown timer for how long the student has been approved to be out of class.
• One or more students can be issued passes and passes can be issued immediately or for a future date and time.

All of this with the same administrative oversight our schools love. Administrators determine how many passes a student receives and can be edited for individual students at any time. Reports show every hall pass issued and include the ability to filter and sort by teacher, student, reason, even by specific date and time.

Bring your out of class accountability into the 21st century with the digital hall pass! 

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