Roll Call: daily check-in & check-out

Most co-ops track attendance per class — a teacher marks who showed up to their specific class period. Roll Call is different: it's a single, org-wide board for marking when each student arrived and left for the day, the way a front desk sign-in sheet works. It's built for co-ops and enrichment programs that run as one continuous day rather than à la carte class periods.

Roll Call and per-class attendance can both be on at the same time, and marking a student present, absent, or excused in Roll Call automatically marks them the same way in every class they're enrolled in that meets that day — so a teacher doesn't have to re-mark someone the front desk already checked in. A teacher who marks their own class's attendance by hand always has the final say: once a teacher sets a student's status for their class, Roll Call won't overwrite it, even if the student is later checked in or out again.

This adds Roll Callto the sidebar for owners, admins, and teachers. Families don't see a Roll Call page — it's a staff tool.

Open Roll Call in the sidebar. Every enrolled student for the day appears in one of two views at the top: Not arrived and Here. Click either card to switch which group you're looking at.

Each student row has one main action that does the obvious next thing:

For a student who isn't going to arrive that day, open the row's menu and choose Mark absent or Mark excused instead of leaving them sitting in Not Arrived all day.

By default, students are grouped by family so siblings show up together. When a family has two or more people (kids and/or parents) still in Not Arrived, a Check in allbutton appears on that family's group header — one tap checks in everyone still missing from that family at once, which is handy for a morning drop-off line.

Each family's parents and guardians show up in the same card as their kids, tagged with a Parentbadge, and check in and out the same way a student does. Outside of that one shared bulk button, a parent's status is completely independent of their children's: checking a parent in or out on their own row never changes whether their kids are marked present, and checking a kid in or out never touches the parent. That matters when a parent or teacher is home sick but their kids still get dropped off by someone else: their own row can stay Not Arrived all day without holding up their children's check-in.

Use the Show parentstoggle above the roster to hide parent/guardian rows entirely if your co-op only wants to track students. It's on by default, and it's a co-op-wide choice. Turning it off also drops parents out of the Check in all bulk action, and the setting is the same for everyone staffing the board, not just your own view.

Use the search box to jump straight to one student by name — searching switches to a flat list instead of grouped-by-family, which is quicker when you just need one name. Search only covers students; look up a parent by scrolling to their family's card.

Roll Call always opens on today by default. Use the date field next to the search box to step back to a previous day and review who was checked in, when they arrived, and when they left. You can't move the date forward past today — there's nothing to check in for a day that hasn't happened yet.

Each day has its own small notes log above the board — use it to leave a short, time-stamped note for whoever's at the front desk later that day or reviewing the day afterward (a late pickup, a note from a parent, anything that doesn't belong on one specific student's row). Notes are attributed to whoever posted them.