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It is a clock rather than a\ntracker: the app never watches where a member of staff is, and asks for their location only in the\nmoment they tap the button. See ",[450,451,453],"a",{"href":452},"#privacy","Privacy"," below.",[410,456,458],{"id":457},"what-a-clock-in-is-checked-against","What a clock-in is checked against",[406,460,461,464],{},[424,462,463],{},"Their own phone",", always. Each member of staff sets up their own device, and no two accounts at\nyour school can share one. This is what stops a single phone clocking in three people, which is the\nthing that actually happens where only location is checked, and it is not something a school can\nswitch off: without it a clock-in tells you a phone was at the school, not who was holding it. You\ndo choose how many phones one person may set up, for staff carrying a work handset and a personal\none, and each of those still belongs to that one person.",[406,466,467,470],{},[424,468,469],{},"Your school's location"," is the check you add on top. You set a pin and a radius; a clock-in from\noutside it is refused. Clearing it means a clock-in can be made from anywhere, on the right phone,\nwhich suits a school whose staff move between sites.",[406,472,473],{},"More checks always run and cannot be switched off, because without them the first two do not mean\nmuch. These three can refuse a clock-in:",[475,476,477,483,489],"ul",{},[421,478,479,482],{},[424,480,481],{},"A location reading too vague to prove anything."," A phone on battery-saving location reports a\nposition accurate to a few hundred metres, which would satisfy your radius from the next street. A\nreading that does not say how accurate it is counts as vague, rather than being let through.",[421,484,485,488],{},[424,486,487],{},"A device reporting a faked location."," Spoofing apps are one search away, and a radius check\ncannot see them.",[421,490,491,494],{},[424,492,493],{},"A second tap moments after the first."," There is a minimum gap between one person's punches, so\na double tap on a slow morning is turned away instead of recording an arrival and a departure\nseconds apart that somebody has to correct later. It is the one refusal that is nothing to do with\nwhere you are: the message says another punch was just recorded and how long to wait, and waiting\nis the whole of the remedy.",[406,496,497],{},"Two more things always hold, and are worth knowing even though neither turns anybody away:",[475,499,500,506],{},[421,501,502,505],{},[424,503,504],{},"The time is stamped by the server, never taken from the phone."," Otherwise changing the phone's\nclock would change somebody's arrival time. How far the handset's own clock was from ours is\nrecorded beside the punch as evidence, for the argument six months later, but it never refuses\nanything: there is nothing to refuse, because the phone's clock was never used.",[421,507,508,511],{},[424,509,510],{},"A day your calendar records as closed does not stop anybody clocking in."," Staff work when the\npupils are away: holiday classes, the office over half term, exam marking, a caretaker on site. The\nclosure is recorded beside the punch instead, so a shift worked over the break is visible as one,\nand the hours count towards the timesheet as normal. What the day does not become is a \"day\npresent\" in the punctuality figures, because those are measured against the days your school was\nopen, and counting a holiday on one side of that sum and not the other would push the rate above\n100%. A class register is still refused on a closed day; that rule is about pupils and has not\nchanged.",[406,513,514],{},"When a clock-in is refused, nothing is recorded and the staff member is told exactly what to do\nabout it. The refusals are also logged, so if your pin is in the wrong place you can see the pattern\nrather than hearing about it one person at a time.",[410,516,518],{"id":517},"setting-your-schools-location","Setting your school's location",[406,520,521,522,525,526,529],{},"Go to ",[424,523,524],{},"Attendance → Settings"," on the web, or ",[424,527,528],{},"Settings → School location"," in the mobile app. You\ncan type coordinates you already have, or stand at the school and capture the pin, which is what most\nschools do. The radius is set beside it; 75 metres reaches a gate and a car park.",[406,531,532,535],{},[424,533,534],{},"Set it from a phone if you can."," A laptop works out where it is from the Wi-Fi around it and is\nroutinely hundreds of metres out, while a phone has a GPS in it. Both screens tell you how accurate\nthe reading was and say so plainly when the accuracy is looser than the radius you have chosen, which\nis the case worth taking again outdoors.",[406,537,538],{},"Below about 30 metres, staff standing in the right place will still be turned away on an ordinary\nphone signal, so the platform will not let you go tighter than 20.",[406,540,541],{},"A school with a second site, such as a nursery down the road, adds another location, and staff\nclock in at whichever they are actually at.",[410,543,545],{"id":544},"phones-and-what-happens-when-somebody-gets-a-new-one","Phones, and what happens when somebody gets a new one",[406,547,548,549,552,553,556,557,559,560,563],{},"The first phone a member of staff sets up is accepted automatically. Any phone after that waits for\nan administrator to approve it: ",[424,550,551],{},"Attendance → Staff"," on the web, where ",[424,554,555],{},"Devices"," at the top of\nthe tab opens the queue, and the ",[424,558,555],{}," tab under ",[424,561,562],{},"More → Staff Attendance"," on the phone.",[406,565,566,569,570,573],{},[424,567,568],{},"Reinstalling the app looks like a new phone."," Neither iOS nor Android offers an identifier that\nsurvives being removed and reinstalled, so this will happen. The approval queue shows the model and\noperating system so you can see it is the same handset, and approving is one tap. If you would\nrather not maintain a queue at all, ",[424,571,572],{},"Approve new phones automatically"," turns it off.",[406,575,576],{},"Revoking a phone stops it clocking in and leaves every record it made intact. The entry is kept\nrather than deleted, which is what lets the next person use the same handset when one is passed on.",[406,578,579,582,583,585],{},[424,580,581],{},"Phones per staff member"," is under ",[424,584,524],{},". Raise it for staff who carry a work\nphone as well as their own. Whatever it is set to, a phone belongs to exactly one member of staff:\nraising the number lets somebody clock in from either of their own handsets, and never lets two\npeople share one.",[410,587,589],{"id":588},"the-board","The board",[406,591,592,594],{},[424,593,551],{}," shows the day: who is in, who was late, who has not arrived, and how long\neach person has been on site. Every active staff account appears, not only the ones who clocked in.",[406,596,597],{},"Tap a name for the full day: each stretch of being at work, the breaks between them, and anything\nthat needs a person to look at it.",[406,599,600,603,604,606],{},[424,601,602],{},"The same board is in the mobile app",", under ",[424,605,562],{},", alongside the roll\ncall, punctuality across your school, the leave register and the queue of phones waiting to be\napproved. Each of those five is shown only to somebody who holds the permission for it, so a bursar\nwho may approve phones and nothing else opens straight onto that queue. Step back a day at a time, or pick a date, and tap\na name for their last 30 days, their timesheet and the correction form.",[410,608,610],{"id":609},"staff-who-have-no-phone-to-clock-in-with","Staff who have no phone to clock in with",[406,612,613,614,617,618,621,622,625],{},"Not everybody carries a smartphone, and for those staff there is nothing to clock in ",[424,615,616],{},"with",".\nSomebody authorised ticks their names off a list instead, and the platform records what they attest.\nThat is the ",[424,619,620],{},"Staff roll call",", and it has a page of its own:\n",[450,623,624],{"href":318},"Clocking staff in by roll call",".",[406,627,628,629,632],{},"It is not a correction and is not filed as one. A roll call records the ",[424,630,631],{},"moment it is taken",",\nwith no time for anybody to set, and says on the timesheet that the day was attested rather than\nmeasured, which is what keeps the checks on this\npage meaning something for everybody else.",[406,634,635,636,625],{},"Those staff often have no email address either, which the platform no longer requires. See\n",[450,637,638],{"href":354},"Staff without an email address",[410,640,642],{"id":641},"corrections","Corrections",[406,644,645],{},"Phones go flat and people forget. An administrator with the right permission can record a clock-in\nor clock-out on somebody's behalf from that same panel, or from a colleague's day in the mobile app,\nwith a reason that stays on the record. The reason is required either way, because a backdated entry\nabout somebody's hours with nothing saying why is the one least worth having.",[406,647,648,651],{},[424,649,650],{},"A correction adds to the record; it never edits or removes anything."," Both what was recorded at\nthe time and what you entered afterwards stay on the day, so the trail is always complete.",[406,653,654,655,658],{},"A correction is for a day that was recorded ",[424,656,657],{},"wrongly",", which is why its reason is required and why\nit can reach back to last Tuesday. Clocking this morning's arrivals in for staff who have no phone is\nthe roll call above, not this.",[410,660,662],{"id":661},"forgotten-clock-outs","Forgotten clock-outs",[406,664,665],{},"If somebody forgets to clock out, the platform closes the day off at the time you have said your\nbuilding empties, once that day is over.",[406,667,668],{},"The hours are still credited, because the person was at work. But the day is marked as an estimate\neverywhere it appears, and the staff member is told, so they can ask for it to be corrected. A\nfigure the platform guessed never looks like one it measured.",[410,670,672],{"id":671},"when-your-staff-day-runs","When your staff day runs",[406,674,675,676,678,679,682],{},"Under ",[424,677,524],{}," you set when a late arrival begins (08:00), when an early departure\nbegins (14:00), and when forgotten clock-outs are closed off (17:00). The fourth time, when the\nmorning reminder goes out (08:00), sits with the reminder's own switch under ",[424,680,681],{},"Settings →\nAttendance",". All four arrive filled in with those times, so a school switching this on is not asked\nfour questions about a day it has not described yet.",[406,684,685,688,689,692],{},[424,686,687],{},"Clear any of them and it follows the working hours you have already set"," under ",[424,690,691],{},"Academic\nCalendar → Settings"," instead. A school that has described its day once should not have to describe\nit again, and if you later correct those hours, a cleared box follows them.",[406,694,695,696,699],{},"The close-off time is worth a moment's thought, because it is also ",[424,697,698],{},"the time credited"," to a\nforgotten day. Set it to when your building actually empties rather than to when lessons end: too\nearly and somebody's after-school hours are cut, too late and a forgotten tap credits an evening\nnobody worked. Either way the day is marked as an estimate and the staff member is told, so it can\nbe corrected.",[406,701,702,703,706],{},"A late arrival is recorded whether or not anybody is told about it, so ",[424,704,705],{},"Tell staff when they arrive\nlate"," is on: a mark somebody first hears about in a review, with no memory of the morning, is one\nthey cannot answer.",[410,708,453],{"id":709},"privacy",[406,711,712,713,716],{},"The app reads a staff member's location ",[424,714,715],{},"only at the moment they tap to clock in or out",". It never\nreads it in the background, and it cannot read it while the app is closed. Nothing about staff\nattendance is ever shown to a parent or a student.",[410,718,720],{"id":719},"leave-absences-and-printed-sheets","Leave, absences and printed sheets",[406,722,723,724,727,728,625],{},"Recording that somebody is on leave or on official duty, the one message each morning naming\nyesterday's absences, and the reminder to whoever has not clocked in are on their own page:\n",[450,725,726],{"href":344},"Staff leave and absence reporting",". Timesheets and the payroll export are under\n",[450,729,730],{"href":29},"attendance documents",[410,732,734],{"id":733},"on-the-phone","On the phone",[406,736,737,738,740],{},"Staff attendance is built for the phone first: clocking in and out happens there, and so does the\nadministrative half. ",[424,739,562],{}," opens a board for one day, stepped a day at a time or\npicked from a calendar, with the day's tally across the top and every member of staff below it\ncarrying their clock-in, their clock-out and the hours between. Late, present and absent are the\nboard's own words, derived from the times your school set. Punctuality, leave and the registered\ndevices are the tabs beside it, each shown only to a reader who holds the key for it.",[742,743,749],"screenshot",{":phone":744,"alt":745,"height":746,"src":747,"width":748},"true","The 1410SMS Android app Staff attendance screen on its Today tab for Thursday 23 July 2026, with arrows either side of the date, a tally reading 17 staff, 14 present, 2 late and 1 absent, and a list of staff each showing a clock-in time, a clock-out time, the hours worked and a Present or Late tag",1600,"\u002Fdocs\u002Fstaff-attendance\u002Fmobile.png",720,[406,750,751],{},"One day's board: who was in, when, and for how long.",[410,753,755],{"id":754},"what-is-not-here-yet","What is not here yet",[475,757,758,768,774],{},[421,759,760,763,764,767],{},[424,761,762],{},"A kiosk screen."," Clocking in works with no hardware at all, and staff with no phone are covered\nby the ",[450,765,766],{"href":318},"roll call",". A screen at reception showing a rotating code, so those staff\ncould clock themselves in rather than being ticked off by somebody else, is planned and optional.",[421,769,770,773],{},[424,771,772],{},"Cover."," The platform records who is away; it does not yet reassign their lessons.",[421,775,776,779],{},[424,777,778],{},"Shift patterns and entitlement balances."," Both belong to workforce management rather than to\nattendance, and are on the roadmap as their own module.",{"title":781,"searchDepth":782,"depth":782,"links":783},"",3,[784,786,787,788,789,790,791,792,793,794,795,796,797],{"id":412,"depth":785,"text":413},2,{"id":457,"depth":785,"text":458},{"id":517,"depth":785,"text":518},{"id":544,"depth":785,"text":545},{"id":588,"depth":785,"text":589},{"id":609,"depth":785,"text":610},{"id":641,"depth":785,"text":642},{"id":661,"depth":785,"text":662},{"id":671,"depth":785,"text":672},{"id":709,"depth":785,"text":453},{"id":719,"depth":785,"text":720},{"id":733,"depth":785,"text":734},{"id":754,"depth":785,"text":755},false,"md",{},true,null,{"src":804,"alt":805,"width":806,"height":807,"caption":808},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fstaff-attendance\u002Fboard.png","The Staff tab of the attendance workspace, with Overview, Register, Students, Staff, Staff roll call, Analytics and Settings along the top: a date, then counts of sixteen clocked in, two late, two not in yet and one absent, then a table of every staff member with their status, first clock-in, last clock-out, hours worked and anything needing checking",1832,1456,"The staff board for one school day. 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