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Printable emergency cards for students
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 4 months 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

  2. Click on Student paperwork under the Paperwork tab

  3. Click on the blue Create button on the top-left of your view

  4. Select Form

    1. Title your form

  5. Select the recipients

    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

  6. Add Emergency contact templates

    1. These can be added by clicking into the Response type dropdown menu and scrolling to the bottom of the list

    2. Enable any other fields on the template by clicking on the checkbox

      1. The gray checkboxes are information required by default - these are not editable or removable

  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

  2. Click on the Students tile

  3. Click into the Report type dropdown menu

  4. Click on Emergency info

  5. Click on the Group dropdown menu

    1. Select if you're pulling this report for:

      1. All students

      2. Specific Classrooms

      3. Specific Programs

      4. Single students

  6. Click on Generate Report in blue

    1. The PDFs will download directly - simply select where you'd like to download them to on your machine

    2. The PDFs can be printed or stored on your machine for your records

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