Kiosk mode puts tonight's classes on a screen at the entrance. Students tap their own photo, and the attendance log fills itself in.
Check-in fails when it asks too much. A PIN gets forgotten, a keycard gets left in the car, and a queue forms at the door while a parent hunts for either one.
Tapping your own face is the one interaction that survives contact with a children's class. There is nothing to remember and nothing to carry.
Evenings overlap. The little ones are still on the mat when the teens arrive, and a board showing one class at a time leaves half the room unable to find themselves.
The kiosk shows every class running right now, and you pick the shape that suits your floor: one board grouped by class, a column per class, a tab per class, or a search box over everyone. Each choice is shown with a picture of the screen it produces, and staff can change it from the tablet itself.
Kiosk check-ins are not a separate system. They land in the same attendance log as anything marked from the desk, filterable the same way, feeding the same rank requirements and the same retention reporting.
This page is the summary. The guide is the manual — written for people running a school, not for people shopping for software. Read setting up the kiosk, or start at the contents page.
No. Kiosk mode runs in a browser on a tablet you already have.
A tap opens a card naming who is about to be checked in, and nothing is recorded until it is confirmed. You can also ask for the date of the month the student was born — born on the 5th, type 5 — which a young child can answer and a passer-by usually cannot. It is still a convenience feature for a room you are standing in rather than an access-control system, and staff can mark attendance from the desk where that matters.
The kiosk needs a connection, like the rest of the platform. Attendance can always be entered from the desk afterwards.
It takes about five minutes to set up.