Platform overview

Everything in the command center.

Ten integrated modules — from real-time student accountability to district-wide analytics — built to run your school's daily operations and emergency response from a single dashboard.

Real-Time Student Accountability

Always know who is on campus. School Tag automatically maintains a real-time student count from arrival through dismissal, giving administrators instant visibility into student presence throughout the school day.

Arrival

  • Tag-IN scanning
  • Live student count

During the Day

  • Early Tag-OUT
  • Classroom rosters

Dismissal

  • Car, bus, and walker tracking
  • Car rider display

Transportation

  • Bus boarding & exit
  • Live display updates

Parent App & Portal

Keep families informed and connected with a secure parent experience that simplifies communication, dismissal, attendance, and student updates—all from one app.

Real-Time Notifications

  • Bus boarding & exit alerts – Parents receive push notifications when their child boards or exits the bus, including route and stop location when available.
  • Targeted notifications – Send messages to individual parents, selected groups, or the entire school community.

Attendance & Requests

  • Dismissal preferences – Parents choose how their child goes home (car, bus, walker, etc.).
  • Early release requests – Parents submit advance pickup requests for administrative approval.
  • Digital absence notes – Submit absence explanations and upload doctor's notes directly through the app.

Parent Management

  • Parent accounts – Create, approve, and manage parent access.
  • Parent–child linking – Connect parents to one or more students.

Visibility & Accountability

  • Notification history – Parents can review previously received notifications at any time.
  • Activity audit log – Maintain a complete record of parent actions and requests.

Emergency Response & Safety

Empower every authorized staff member with instant emergency alerts, campus-wide communication, and real-time response tracking; all from the devices they already use.

Emergency Activation

  • One-tap emergency alerts – Instantly broadcast Lockdown, Secure, Evacuate, Shelter, Hold, and All Clear across the campus.
  • Shake-to-Alert – Silently trigger an emergency alert by shaking a phone when speaking or reaching a panic button isn't possible.

Campus Communication

  • Custom broadcast messages – Send routine announcements or emergency instructions to staff instantly.
  • Desktop alert displays – Automatically deliver broadcasts and emergency alerts to classroom computers—no browser required.

Accountability & Response

  • Broadcast acknowledgements – Track which classrooms have confirmed receipt of emergency or routine messages.
  • Voice status reporting – Staff can report classroom status and student counts using built-in speech-to-text during an incident.

History & District Oversight

  • Broadcast history – Maintain a complete log of every emergency and routine message sent.
  • District-wide alerts – Allow district administrators to send emergency notifications to every campus simultaneously.

Staff & Parent Messaging

Deliver instant, targeted communication to staff and families through the School Tag apps; keeping everyone informed without relying on SMS or third-party messaging services.

Staff Communication

  • Staff broadcasts – Send push and in-app messages to all staff, active staff, or selected individuals.
  • Real-time staff chat – Communicate instantly with staff through a built-in messaging interface.

Parent Communication

  • Parent notifications – Send targeted messages to individual parents, selected groups, or the entire school community.
  • App-based delivery – Messages are delivered instantly through the Parent App with push notifications.

Visibility & Tracking

  • Delivery status – Confirm when broadcasts have been delivered through message history and status tracking.
  • Message history – Maintain a searchable record of staff and parent communications.

AI-Powered Analytics & Insights

Turn real-time school data into answers, insights, and decisions with AI-powered analytics.

AI Assistant

  • Ask questions naturally – Ask questions in plain English and receive instant answers with supporting charts and live data.
  • AI-generated visualizations – Automatically create charts, graphs, and dashboards tailored to your question.

Operational Insights

  • Cross-module analysis – Discover relationships across attendance, discipline, dismissal, transportation, and student activity.
  • Real-time analytics – Reports update automatically as data changes throughout the school day.

Interactive Reporting

  • Trend analysis – Monitor activity over time with interactive date filters.
  • Category breakdowns – Analyze data by grade, classroom, staff member, bus route, dismissal method, and more.

Data Exploration

  • Interactive drill-downs – Click any chart to explore the underlying student records.
  • Export reports – Download filtered datasets as CSV files for reporting and compliance.

District Intelligence Hub

Gain a district-wide view of school operations with real-time analytics, cross-campus comparisons, and executive reporting.

District Overview

  • Cross-school analytics – Aggregate operational data from every campus into a single district-wide view.
  • Executive dashboard – Monitor QR scans, active users, emergency activity, and key operational metrics in one place.

District Insights

  • Attendance trends – Analyze absence patterns by school, reason, and day of the week.
  • Discipline analytics – Identify behavior trends and compare discipline data across the district.

Performance Monitoring

  • School comparisons – Compare operational performance and activity across campuses.
  • Trend analysis – Visualize long-term performance with moving averages and historical trends.

Reporting & Export

  • Interactive reporting – Drill into district or individual campus data for deeper analysis.
  • Export reports – Download district-wide or campus-specific reports as CSV files.

Discipline Management

Promote consistent, fair, and well-documented student discipline with configurable workflows, district oversight, and actionable analytics.

Best-Practice Framework

  • Ready-to-use discipline framework – Start with a professionally designed discipline framework based on common K–12 administrative practices.
  • Fully customizable – Modify categories, severity levels, consequences, and workflows to align with your school's policies.

Incident Management

  • Student discipline records – Record, track, and manage student discipline incidents in one centralized system.
  • Role-based access – Secure access for principals, discipline coordinators, and authorized staff.

District Oversight

  • District discipline dashboard – Monitor discipline activity across every campus from a single view.
  • Cross-school comparisons – Compare incident trends, severity levels, and activity between schools.

Analytics & Reporting

  • Discipline analytics – Visualize trends, identify recurring behaviors, and monitor discipline activity with interactive charts.
  • Export reports – Generate district or campus reports for compliance, administrative review, and data analysis.

User Management & Administration

Simplify user administration with centralized account management, secure access controls, district-wide administration, and enterprise-grade security.

District Administration

  • Multi-school management – District administrators manage every campus from a single login, while school administrators access only their assigned schools.
  • Administrator transition – Securely transfer administrative responsibilities using the built-in admin invitation system.

Access & Identity

  • Registration approval – Review and approve pending staff and substitute registrations.
  • Role-based access – Assign permissions for teachers, substitutes, school administrators, and district administrators.
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) – Staff can sign in using Clever, with additional SSO providers available on request.

User Management

  • Account administration – Create, edit, enable, or deactivate staff and substitute accounts from a single dashboard.
  • Bulk staff import – Import staff from CSV or Excel with flexible formatting and optional phone numbers.

Security & Compliance

  • Enterprise security – Protect sensitive information with FERPA-compliant field-level encryption and role-based permissions.
  • Automated data governance – Configure data retention policies and built-in consent workflows to support regulatory compliance.

Mobile App

Give every authorized staff member the full School Tag experience from any Android or iPhone—no dedicated hardware required.

Mobile Access

  • Cross-platform support – Runs on Android and iPhone using the same School Tag app.
  • Simple sign-in – Staff securely access their school using a unique school code and login credentials.

Mobile Experience

  • Full scanning capabilities – Perform student check-in, dismissal, transportation, and classroom scanning directly from a mobile device.
  • Self-service account management – Staff can securely update their passwords from within the app.

Live Display Management

  • Display board setup – Configure live scan displays for front offices, classrooms, cafeterias, and other locations.
  • Quick monitor deployment – Generate short URLs for fast and simple display setup.
  • Real-time display updates – Connected displays refresh automatically as scanning activity occurs.

Substitute & Guest Staff Management

Keep substitute and guest staff fully connected to daily school operations without creating separate workflows or requiring additional hardware.

Seamless Onboarding

  • Same app, same experience – Substitute and guest staff simply download the standard School Tag app used by permanent staff.
  • Quick account activation – Administrators can authorize or remove substitute accounts in minutes.

Daily Campus Operations

  • Full scanning access – Authorized substitutes participate in student check-in, dismissal, transportation, and classroom scanning just like permanent staff.
  • Live student accountability – Substitute teachers contribute to real-time headcounts and classroom accountability throughout the school day.

School Communication

  • Included in daily messaging – Active substitutes automatically receive school announcements, broadcasts, and emergency notifications while assigned to a campus.
  • Automatic access control – Communication access is limited to the days and campuses where substitutes are actively assigned.

Administrative Control

  • Role-based permissions – School administrators control substitute access and permissions at all times.
  • Flexible account management – Easily activate, deactivate, or remove substitute accounts as assignments change.

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