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Student Attendance for Teachers

Check a single student or multiple students in or out for the day.

Stephanie Blitshtein avatar
Written by Stephanie Blitshtein
Updated over 3 months ago

Record student attendance on the Playground mobile app if a family forgot to or if your center prefers to have the staff take attendance.

Single student check-in/out

💡 The button to the right of a student's name will correspond to whether the student is already checked in or out. For example, if a student is currently checked out, the button to the right of their name will say "Check-in".

  1. Log in to the Playground mobile app and tap on Roster at the top

  2. Tap on Check-in or Check-out next to the student's name

  3. If you would like for the guardian to sign on your device, select the guardian who is checking the student in or out from the Guardian section and have them sign. Select your name from the Staff section to record yourself as the signer if the guardian is not signing on your device.

  4. Tap on Sign for students and record your signature

  5. Tap Submit to confirm

📱 The dots near the student's profile picture indicate the student's attendance status:

🟢 Checked-in

🔴 Checked-out

🟡 Absent


Bulk student check-in/out

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💡 Use filters at the top of the roster to see a specific group of students in the roster list rather than viewing the entire center.

  1. Log in to the Playground mobile app and tap on Roster at the top

  2. Tap the three vertical dots in the upper right-hand corner of the screen

  3. Tap Toggle Quick Sign.

  4. Tap the check marks to the right of the students' you'd like to check in or out.

  5. Tap Sign for students at the bottom and sign

  6. Tap Submit to complete the check-in/out process


Contactless check-in and check-out on mobile

🚨 Contactless check-in is utilized if a guardian just drove away or forgot their device in the car. As a staff member, you can send the guardian a prompt to their phone for the guardian to sign on their device without needing a QR code or admin device to enter their pin.

  1. Log in to the Playground mobile app and tap on Roster at the top

  2. Tap on Check-in or Check-out next to the student's name

  3. Tap the toggle for Contactless sign for students so that it turns green

  4. Select the guardian who you are sending the check-in/out to from the Guardian section

  5. Tap on Sign for students

  6. You will be directed to a screen letting you know a prompt was sent to the guardian's device


Record an absence

  1. Log in to the Playground mobile app and tap on Roster at the top

  2. Tap on the student's name to access their profile

  3. Tap the three dots to the right of "Check-in"

  4. Tap Mark absence

  5. Add the Start and End date along with any additional notes or reasons. This will automatically list the child(ren) as absent on their schedule

  6. Tap post in the top right corner

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