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Emergency Roll Call

Account for every student from any phone.

PCR Educator emergency roll call starts from the live attendance record. When a drill or a lockdown begins, every staff member accounts for the students in front of them from a phone, students on approved leave, at the health office, or off campus are already placed, and leadership watches accounted, unaccounted, and missing counts resolve in real time. The same platform reaches families by phone, text, and email and keeps the record of the event.

Live accounted and missing counts Every staff phone reports into one roll
Pre-placed leave, health office, travel The roll starts from today's attendance
3 channels phone, text, and email to families Emergency message by household filter
Starts from live attendance

The roll is already most of the way done.

Because period attendance, kiosk sign-outs, approved leave, and health office visits are recorded in the same system all day, the emergency roll opens with each student where the record last placed them. Staff confirm the students in front of them; the system has already accounted for the ones who are legitimately elsewhere.

Roll opens from today's record
Staff report from anywhere

Any teacher, any phone, one count.

A teacher on the field, a coach in the gym, and a dorm parent in the house each mark their students safe from a phone. The head of school and the division heads see accounted, unaccounted, and missing update as each report lands, and can see which staff member last accounted for any student.

One roll, every location
Families informed from the same record

Phone, text, and email, from emergency contacts you already hold.

An emergency message goes to households by filter (a division, a grade, a bus route, the whole school) using the phone and email fields the school designates for emergencies. Emergency contacts and authorized pickups are on the same household record, which is what reunification needs.

Broadcast by household filter
Emergency Roll Call & Family Communication

Ready before, during, and after.

Accountability, communication, and the record, on the platform staff already use every period of every day, so the tool they reach for in an emergency is the one they used an hour earlier.

  • 01Start a drill or an event from any staff device
  • 02Roll pre-populated from period attendance, kiosk, approved leave, and health office visits
  • 03Mark students safe, missing, or with another adult; counts update live for leadership
  • 04Staff and signed-in visitors on the same roll as students
  • 05Emergency message to households and staff by phone, text, and email, by filter
  • 06Emergency contacts and authorized pickups on the household for reunification
  • 07Event record: who accounted for whom, and when, for the board and the insurer
01

Head of School

One screen with accounted, unaccounted, and missing, and the name of the adult who last saw each student on the missing list.

Live counts, one screen
02

Division heads

Their division's roll, their staff's reports, and the ability to reassign a group to another adult when a teacher is off campus.

Division view
03

Front office

Visitors signed in at the kiosk appear on the roll, and the family message goes out from the same screen with the school's approved wording.

Visitors on the roll
04

IT

No separate app to provision, no roster sync to schedule, and no second set of accounts. Staff use the login they already have.

No second system

From launch to the record, on one platform.

01LaunchA designated staff member starts the drill or event from a phone or the office.
02Roll opensEvery student appears where today's attendance, sign-outs, and leave last placed them.
03Staff reportTeachers, coaches, and dorm parents mark the students with them as safe from their phones.
04Counts resolveLeadership watches accounted rise and unaccounted fall, and sees who is still missing.
05Families reachedAn emergency message goes to households by phone, text, and email, using your wording.
06ReunificationEmergency contacts and authorized pickups are on the household record. Releases are logged.
07RecordWho accounted for whom, and when, is kept for the debrief, the board, and the insurer.

What schools ask about emergency roll call on
PCR Educator.

What is emergency roll call software?

Emergency roll call software lets a school account for every student during a drill, lockdown, evacuation, or weather event. Staff mark the students with them as safe from a phone, and leadership sees accounted, unaccounted, and missing counts in real time. In PCR Educator the roll starts from the live attendance record, so students on approved leave, at the health office, or signed out are already placed and the count begins close to complete.

How is this different from an alert or panic-button system?

Alert systems and panic buttons notify responders that something is happening. PCR Educator answers the next question: where is every student, and who has confirmed it. Schools keep the physical security and alerting hardware they have chosen and use PCR Educator for accountability and family communication, because the roster, attendance, emergency contacts, and authorized pickups already live there.

Where does the roll come from?

From the day's record in the student information system: period attendance taken by teachers, kiosk sign-ins and sign-outs, approved leave, health office visits, and dismissal releases. There is no separate roster to sync and no nightly import, so the roll reflects the school as it is at that moment, including students who arrived late or left early.

Can we reach families by phone as well as text and email?

Yes. The emergency message goes out by phone call, text, and email to the household fields the school designates for emergencies, and to staff. Recipients are chosen by filter, so a message can go to one division, one grade, one bus route, or every household, with templates holding the school's approved wording.

Are visitors and staff included?

Yes. Staff are on the roll, and visitors who signed in at the kiosk appear with the time they arrived and who they came to see. Accounting for adults on campus is part of the same count, so the front office is working from one list rather than a student roll and a paper visitor log.

Is the drill record kept?

Yes. Each event records when it started, who reported which students safe and when, how long the count took to resolve, and which messages went to families. That record supports the debrief, the board's safety report, and any request from an insurer or accreditor.

Every student,
accounted for.

A specialist runs a drill on live data: the roll opening from attendance, staff reporting from phones, counts resolving, and the family message going out.

  • 01Roll pre-populated from today's attendance and leave
  • 02Staff mark students safe from any phone
  • 03Family message by phone, text, and email
  • 04The event record for the board and the insurer

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