Instead of, or alongside, a teacher marking a register, students can be recorded as they arrive at the gate — by scanning a card or entering an ID. Guardians can be alerted the moment their child arrives.
Turning it on
Gate capture is off until you enable it in Attendance → Settings. That page also holds:
- Check-in and check-out — whether departures are recorded as well as arrivals.
- Late cutoff — a time after which arrivals are automatically marked late, school-wide.
- Guardian notifications — whether parents get a push alert on arrival and departure.
The gate terminal
Attendance → Gate is the screen for whoever is on the gate. It accepts:
- a card scan, from a handheld reader or the camera
- a typed student ID
- a name search, for a child who has forgotten their card
Arrivals appear on the overview as they come in.
Two practical notes. The camera scanner needs a secure connection, so it won't work on a local development address. And the roster loads when the page opens — a card issued after that won't be found by name until you reload, though scanning the card itself still works.
Late marking
With a cutoff set, anyone scanning in after it is recorded as late automatically. Nobody has to watch the clock.
If a teacher has already marked a child late and the gate also recorded them, the row is tinted so you can give it a second look — it's usually worth one.
Issuing cards
From a class, choose Issue attendance cards. This generates a card per student, which you print and hand out. Printing is per class, so a student arriving mid-term costs a sheet.
Each card carries a code unique to that student. Revoking a card stops it working in Schola, but the physical card still exists — collect it where you can.
Check-out
Departures open a short dialog per child so you can record who collected them. That makes it a considered flow rather than a rapid scan, which matches how early pickup actually works.
Hardware
Card readers and turnstiles can send scans straight to Schola rather than going through the gate screen. That needs an API key — see API keys and integrations.
Records that come from hardware are stored without a marker for who marked them, since nobody did.