Target: Students on Passes - AUTOMATION?

[Timosh <timosh@MCHSI.COM>]

Thanks to all who have responded to this thread.  It has
been interesting to see that we all share the same basic
problems and have arrived at similar solutions.

Our "problem" (which is very good to have) is that we get as
many as 200 passes a day into our media center.  We
currently have the kids run their passes through a time
clock and log in/out on a clipboard.  However, the line at
the beginning and end of the period can be quite long.

Does anyone know of a system that would allow the students
to scan their barcoded IDs and have the name, date and time
be automatically logged?   For those of us in larger
buildings (I have 2400+ students) this would be a great tool
for data collection as well as student management.

If anyone has any ideas, shoot them to me and I'll post a
HIT.

Thanks!


Tim O'Shaughnessy, LMS
Moline High School
Moline, IL.
timosh@antispammchsi.com (remove antispam to reply)
"Show me a computer expert that gives a damn, and I'll show
you a librarian."
 Patricia Wilson Berger (Quoted in Chicago Tribune article,
29 June 1990, Tempo section, p. 1)

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