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Printable emergency cards for students

Print an Emergency Card PDF document to have on file.

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Written by Adrian Ruiz
Updated over 3 weeks ago

Emergency cards are a necessary file that must be produced for a student in case of emergency. Utilize the data you're capturing on Playground to make printable emergency cards that you can pull and print at a moment's notice.

Emergency card - included information

The PDF will include one page per student with the following information on their emergency card:

  • Name

  • DOB

  • First day of school

  • Medical information like allergies or medication

  • Guardians including primary and secondary guardians

  • Signature and date field at the bottom for parents to sign and confirm the information

Record emergency contacts for students

💡 Emergency Contact templates can be added to any existing report you would like to use for this purpose. If adding a template to an already existing file, please skip to Step 6.

  1. Navigate to the Paperwork tab on the Admin dashboard
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  2. Click on Student paperwork under the Paperwork tab
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  3. Click on the blue Create button on the top-left of your view
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  4. Select Form
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    1. Title your form
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  5. Select the recipients
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    1. Read our article on Working with Forms in Paperwork for more information on how to share your file to your students and forms in general
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  6. Add Emergency contact templates
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    1. These can be added by clicking into the Response type dropdown menu and scrolling to the bottom of the list
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    2. Enable any other fields on the template by clicking on the checkbox
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      1. The gray checkboxes are information required by default - these are not editable or removable
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  7. Click on Save and exit in blue in the top-right of your screen to exit the file

Printing an Emergency Contacts PDF report

  1. Navigate to the Reports tab on the Admin dashboard
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  2. Click on the Students dropdown
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  3. Click into the Report type dropdown menu
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  4. Click on Emergency info
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  5. Click on the Group dropdown menu
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    1. Select if you're pulling this report for:
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      1. All students
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      2. Specific Classrooms
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      3. Specific Programs
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      4. Single students
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  6. Click on Generate Report in blue
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    1. The PDFs will download directly - simply select where you'd like to download them to on your machine
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    2. The PDFs can be printed or stored on your machine for your records

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