CENTEGIX, a school safety technology company, announces upgrades to its Visitor Management System.
The CENTEGIX Visitor Management System provides multiple benefits to schools, including enhancing school safety with automatic checks for sex offenders, custom-banned persons, and flags for custody issues. The solution also helps improve communication and reduce risk by sending review notifications to staff, administrators, and SROs. It also reduces the time it takes to record student tardies and early releases.
The system upgrades are said to offer great efficiency and control. Benefits for visitors are said to include:
- Self Check-in: Visitors can now check in using a smartphone via QR codes, eliminating lines and minimizing wait times.
- Digital Visitor Pass: Guests receive a secure, scannable digital credential, making it easier to navigate campus access points.
- Check-In Anywhere: Flexible kiosk deployments enable self-service check-in stations so visitors can check in anywhere, from the front office to the athletic field.
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Benefits for school administration are said to include:
- Reduce Front Office Workload: Self-serve check-in enables visitors to scan IDs, print badges, and log visits in seconds, without requiring time from front office staff. Visitor Alerts focus staff attention on flagged visitors.
- Easy Set-up Anywhere: With kiosk set up and cloud-based, wireless printing, visitor check-in can be done anywhere on campus.
- Real-time Alerts of Flagged Visitors: Visitor IDs are instantly checked against the National Sex Offender Registry and custom “No-Go” lists.
- Configurable Check-in Workflows: Powerful admin console enables dynamic check-in workflows with customizable questionnaires and document requirements, configurable kiosk and site branding, and multi-tiered role-based access management.
- Live Dashboards and Analytics: Intuitive dashboards give administrators real-time visibility into campus visitors to track visitor volume, volunteer and contractor hours, and generate insights to optimize campus safety protocols.
- Easily Manage Volunteers: Screen volunteers and record volunteer time from our easy-to-use console.
- Automatic Record Keeping: Our SIS Integration enables real-time syncing with Student Information Systems, including PowerSchool and OneRoster, enabling accurate attendance and visitor records. Our write-back capability to PowerSchool helps administrators save time in maintaining student records.
“What I like most about the new system is the dashboard. I can see who has checked in for the entire district without having to switch sites,” said Melinda Bruna, Technology Department, Abilene Public Schools, Abilene (KS). “Our front office staff loves the QR code feature for parent check-in. This capability made check-in for our awards ceremony much faster because multiple parents could be signing in at once.”
CENTEGIX Visitor Management is available both as a standalone solution and at no additional cost to all CENTEGIX Safety Platform™ customers.
