Checking Students in for their FlexTime Periods and Activities

This article discusses how to check students in for their Flex Activity for your school's Flex Periods.

Permission Level: Owner/ Teacher

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Manually Checking in Students

Checking Students in from MyTools

Enabling Time Restrictions for Check-ins

Checking in a Student as Tardy

Add Points to Flex Check-Ins 

Enable Student Self-Check-In

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Checking-in Students into their FlexTime Activity from FlexTime

Step by Step: 

1. Navigate to FlexTime and select Activities
2. Under Flex Period, ensure that you have the correct FlexPeriod
3. To see only the activities that you are leading, select My Activities
4. Select Check In on the appropriate activity
5. Scan the student's ID, type in their name or select the student(s) from the list and click Check In
   
   
   
   

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Checking Students in from MyTools

Step By Step:

1. Click on MyTools and select Assign a Check-In

2. Select FlexActivity and then on the FlexTime Period dropdown, click the appropriate period

3. Click the activity you are checking students into 

4. Enter an optional note (this will be visible to admins in the FlexTime History Report)

5. Click Next, and select the student(s) you are checking in

6. A green check mark and a success message will appear

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Time Restricted Check-ins

Prevent students from "gaming the system" and checking in before arriving at their activity by restricting check-in times. 

Step by step:

1. Navigate to the Settings tab in FlexTime

2. Toggle the Restrict check in times setting ON

When enabled, students and teachers will see the following when a check-in occurs outside of the scheduled time:

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Checking in a Student as Tardy

Sometimes students slip into FlexTime activities late and are overlooked, but now you can mark them as Tardy and automatically issue a guidance behavior, ensuring that your automated progressive disciplinary framework captures all behaviors. 

Step by step:

1. Navigate to Activities in the FlexTime module

2. Click on Manage students icon for the desired activity

3. Select Check in as tardy

To automatically add a tardy guidance behavior to the FlexTardy check-in, an admin can enable this in the Flex Settings:

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Add Points to Flex Check-Ins 

Enhance student participation and develop a motivating FlexTime experience by adding points that are awarded to a student upon check-in.

Step-by-step:

1. Navigate to the Activity Template tab

2. Click on the Create activity button

3. Scroll down to the Points awarded or subtracted area

4. Enter the number of points to be added or removed upon checking into the activity

 

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Enable Student Self-Check-in

Save valuable instructional time by allowing students to check themselves into their FlexActivity. 

Step by Step:

1. Navigate to the Activity Template tab in FlexTime 

2. Click on the Create activity button

3. Scroll down and locate the Enable self-check-in setting and toggle it on

4. Click View QR code and then Print to make the QR code available for students to scan