Solutions / Hall Pass
PowerPass
Passes that don’t interrupt the lesson.
Students request from the badge. Staff approve from a screen—or a tap on their own badge. Destination and status show on the wearable they’re already carrying, so hallway adults see permission at a glance—and the building knows where an active pass actually went.
The friction
Whether it’s paper or another screen, class still pauses.
Slips at the door. Or a student request on a laptop and a teacher approval on theirs. Either way the lesson stops—and once someone leaves, the school often only has a time limit, not a clear pass in hand or a picture of where they went.
What changes
The hallway keeps moving. The classroom keeps teaching.
~10 min
Lost when a bathroom trip turns into a hallway loop
Walk there, wait, chat, wander back. Unmanaged time out of class adds up fast—period after period, student after student.
2–3×
Higher fight & vandalism risk when bathrooms pack past ~5
Crowded restrooms are where trouble concentrates. Cap occupancy and new requests wait their turn—before the room becomes a crowd.
Visible
Permission that hallway adults can actually read
A countdown in an app helps if they don’t return—but it isn’t the same as a badge showing destination and status, or knowing whether they reached where they said they were going.
Request without the performance
A press on the badge. Optional destinations for bathroom, nurse, water. Staff approve or deny from laptop, iPad, phone—or their own badge button—so the lesson doesn’t become a pass desk.
The badge becomes the pass
Once approved, e-ink shows destination and status. Adults in the hallway see permission at a glance—no hunting for a phone or a paper slip. Overdue? It says return to class. Back in the room? It resets.
Limits—and a clearer map of the building
Cap how often someone can leave. Stop overcrowded bathrooms. Keep conflict pairs from overlapping. And when a pass is active, the platform can tell if they drifted somewhere they shouldn’t—not only that the clock ran out.
Smarter together
Hall passes get powerful when your rules ride along.
Capacity caps, geofence deviations, extended duration alerts, and per-class bathroom budgets aren’t buried settings—they’re policies you express in the Rules Engine when your building needs them.
Goes further with
Movement is only half the picture.
Keep class in class.
See badge requests, silent approvals, and hallway clarity in one walkthrough.
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