Effectively managing school dismissals before Covid-19 was already a complex process. The PickUp Patrol school dismissal system can be customized to help keep your school community safe. PickUp Patrol can keep students organized in small groups at the end of the school day to help mitigate the spread of Covid-19 variants. For example:

• Stagger Dismissal Times: You can set the system up to vary when students are dismissed to avoid large gatherings at the end of the school day and keep the hallways cleared. For example, you can set up two different times for your parents to pick up their children: 2:15 Car Line, 2:45 Car Line, etc.

• Establish Multiple Exit Points: To help reduce the congestion in hallways and keep groupings small, you can set the system up to dismiss students to various places on your campus. For example: North Door Pickup, South Door Pickup, etc.

• Hybrid Learning (if needed): Use PickUp Patrol to keep track of who is learning remotely and who is learning at school on different days of the week.

The CDC recommends that schools keep students in small groupings and limit the number of parents and visitors that come inside the school. The ZipLane™ Car Line Tracker with Classroom Notification allows teachers to dismiss their students directly from the classroom or another location on campus after receiving an automated notification. Here’s how it works:

• Each family has a car tag in the window with the student’s last name or number.

• A staff member taps an arrival button from a smartphone or tablet when a car enters the line.

• The system automatically alerts the teacher/staff member with the student in a classroom or other grouped location. This information can also be projected for students to see.

• The system allows for more than one car line location (for example, you could create separate dismissal options for Car Line North Door and Car Line South Door, etc.), 

• The system alerts for other dismissal options as well. For example, it can dismiss all students from various locations in the school who ride Bus #2, the Sunshine Daycare Van, etc.

Parents use the app to sign their children in and out. The app notifies the office staff when parents arrive allowing them to remain outside of the building if you prefer.

The PickUp Patrol Daily School Health Screener allows parents to report their students’ symptoms and exposures to Covid-19 on a daily basis quickly and simply. 

• Customize the app with your own set of Yes/No questions. These questions can be about Covid-19 symptoms, possible recent exposure, temperature, etc.

• Parents log into the app each morning before school. After responding to the questions, the student receives a “Good to go” or a “Caution” status. 

• The school adds a customized message letting the parent know what action to take in either case.

• The office can track student status and temperatures, and follow up with families as needed.

Although not the main mode of transmission, the CDC states that it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes. PickUp Patrol completely eliminates the need for notes to communicate plan change information to the school, protecting the health of your entire community.

A powerful tool in and of itself, tracking absences has become increasingly important when not all students will be present in the classroom every day.

Your school office was already consumed with tracking and organizing dismissal information. The PickUp Patrol Automated Dismissal System makes it completely possible to implement and track the creative solutions to dismissal you are putting in place, and provides your office staff with an easy-to-use solution that will help keep your community safe.

PickUp Patrol drastically reduces classroom interruptions, giving your teachers the critical time they need to connect with the students in their classrooms—even more important during these extraordinary times.