Guide

Boarding

Version 1.1 ·Updated 2026-10-25

Next reviewed by 2027-04-25.

Written for each member of a school's staff, from the registrar to IT, and the families using the portal.

For the head of boarding and the house parents, who take each house's roll call and record where each boarder is.

All guides, including the first steps each member of staff takes. The training for this role takes these tasks in sessions.

Read where each boarder is

Boarding, the house's card

Needs boarding.house.read.

  1. Open "Boarding" and find your house.
  2. Read each boarder's line: where the last roll call put them, who took it and when.

Take a house's roll call

Boarding, the house's card, "Take the roll call"

Needs boarding.house.write.

  1. On the house's card, choose the "Roll call" and press "Take the roll call".
  2. Mark each boarder in the house, on leave, signed out, in the sick bay or unaccounted for.
  3. Write a "Note" for each boarder you mark unaccounted for, then press "Record the roll call".

Correct a house mark

Boarding, a roll call already taken

Needs boarding.house.write.

  1. On the boarder's line, press "Correct".
  2. Choose where they were, write a "Note" if they were unaccounted for, and press "Correct the house mark".
  3. The house mark you corrected stays on the roll call under the new one.

Sign a boarder out of the house and back in

Boarding, "House door"

Needs boarding.house.write.

  1. Under "At the door", choose the "Boarder".
  2. For a boarder in the house, choose who they are leaving "With" if an adult is collecting them, write "Where to", and press "Sign out".
  3. For a boarder who is out, press "Sign back in". Both moments are listed under the form with the time and the adult.

Void a movement written in error

Boarding, "House door", the boarder's latest movement

Needs boarding.house.write.

  1. On the boarder's latest movement, press "Void".
  2. Write "Why it is void" and press "Void".
  3. The movement stays on the list, marked voided, with who voided it and why.