Initiating an Alarm

Choose Respond from the Dashboard.

On the Respond Dashboard, you will be able to view current alarms as well as initiate a new alarm. If no alarms are active and you need to initiate an alarm, click on Activate Alarm.

Select your desired building, then Proceed.

Select the mode, then choose an alarm. Comments are optional and allow you to add information you want staff to see.

When ready, Activate and the alarm will start.

Administrator Home Screen

Your admin screen will provide real-time updated counts and lists.

The End Alarm option at the top is only available for administrators. Anyone can initiate alarms but only admins can end the alarms.

You can switch your view from student lists and staff lists.

Any staff member can account for themselves using the options I am okay, I am not okay, or I am not here.

If you need to account for students, use Change Class.

Select a Class/Custom Roster

If you don’t have classes listed with the My Classes filter on, simply change to All Classes for a full list. Select which class you need to account for.

Another option is to Create Custom Roster. This feature is useful if you do not have a class but perhaps have a couple students with you in your office or walking with you down the hallway.

Accounting for Students

Once a class is selected you can start accounting for students. If all students are present, you can use Mark All Present. You can then go through and mark students absent and missing. Simply click the students name to toggle between different statuses.

If you have a student who isn’t in your class (i.e. you pulled them in from the hall), use Add Student to search and select who needs to be added (the teacher missing the student will see your name to indicate you have found them).

Adding Additional Students

The Add a Student screen shows all the students who have not been accounted for by staff yet. From here, you will be able to search and add students to your roster to account for them during the alarm.

To add the student, click Add beside the student’s name. A prompt will appear to confirm the selection, click “OK” if that is correct.

Submit Class Count

Once you are done adding students, you can close the Add a Student window and go back to your roster. You will see the student(s) that were added to your list at the bottom.

Once all students have been accounted for, click Submit Roster. This will send your count to the overall total on the admin screen.

You can make necessary changes as you need even after the roster has been submitted.

Chat Feature

The bottom right of the screen will be options to Chat. This will be used to communicate with others in your building.

Click the chat title to bring up the option to type and view messages.

You have a private Admins chat for all the administrators in your building. The All chat is to communicate with everyone. A list of teachers will be available to you, clicking on a name will open a private chat between that teacher and users in your admin group.