Live Rollcall and Standard Rollcall with Reach App

ARTICLE: Live Rollcall and Standard Rollcall with Reach App

Rollcall can be taken and processed through the Reach Student Life mobile app in one of two ways; Live Rollcall and Standard Rollcall.  Live Rollcall will allow staff to work in collaboration with other staff members to quickly and efficiently account for students in one or multiple of locations, enabling others to see real-time updates regarding students' whereabouts.  Standard Rollcall allows for one user to log attendance for a group as one event, and other staff won't be able to see the results of a Standard Rollcall until after it has been completed and submitted.

Live Rollcall

How to Setup a Live Rollcall

  1. Select the bottom center button with the plus sign and choose New Rollcall
  2. Select the Category
  3. Select a Present Location - this will will be the location students will be SISOd to upon being marked present in the Live Rollcall
  4. Select an Absent Location - this will be the location students will be SISOd to upon being marked absent in the Live Rollcall
  5. Select the field to Sort by which determines how you will view your students in your Live Rollcall
  6. Select Filters which will determine which students will be visible in your Live Rollcall
  7. Select the checkmark in the top right corner to being your Live Rollcall
Start Ad-Hoc is a one-off Live Rollcall Category and may not be an option depending on your school's system configuration settings.


How to take a Live Rollcall

  1. Mark a student Present or Absent, and depending on your Live Rollcall preselected settings, it will also SISO them to a specified location
  2. Selecting the Note icon allows for the logging of a note for that particular student
  3. The initials of the staff member who accounted for the student will appear below their name in the color of the student's status
  4. View how much time remains until the end of the Live Rollcall session
  5. Toggle between viewing all, processed and unaccounted students by selecting the double checkmarks to the left of the time counter
  6. Use the search feature in the top right of the screen to quickly display a particular student
  7. You can update the status of a student by selecting another attendance option (this may happen if another staff marks a student absent and you can account for them in your location, you can change their status from Absent to Present)


Standard Rollcall

How to Setup a Standard Rollcall

  1. Select the bottom center button with the plus sign and choose New Rollcall
  2. Toggle the Type switch to enable Standard
  3. Select the Category
  4. Select the field to Sort by which determines how you will view your students in your Standard Rollcall
  5. Select Filters which will determine which students will be visible in your Standard Rollcall
  6. Select the checkmark in the top right corner to being your Standard Rollcall

How to take a Standard Rollcall

Marking a student Present, Absent/Late or Accounted for by Someone Else
  1. Mark a student Present Absent/Late, or Accounted for by Someone Else
  2. Selecting the Note icon allows for the logging of a note for that particular student
  3. Toggle between all processed and all unprocessed students by selecting the corresponding tab - the numbers under the tab titles refer to the number of student's in that category
  4. Use the search feature in the top right of the screen to quickly display a particular student
  5. You can update the status of a student by selecting another attendance option (this may happen if a student absent arrives late for the rollcall and you need to now mark them present)
  6. If you need to navigate away from the Rollcall screen, you will be asked if you want to save a draft of this current rollcall.  Saving a draft will allow you to return back to this screen and continue taking your roll with the previously processed students accounted for
  7. To submit your rollcall, select the three dots in the top right corner and select Submit.

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