SmartPass Mobile

I was in 5th bell and I realized I had to use the bathroom. I asked the teacher if I could go and you know what I heard? “OF COURSE, BUT FIRST FILL OUT A SMART PASS.” These were dreadful words to hear while my bowels felt like they were gonna blow. I knew I had to open my computer, log in, click on the bookmark, say my teacher, and finally where I am going, OH WAIT DONT FORGET HOW MUCH TIME YOU NEED! Like who in the world is going to say “oh yea I would like to go to the bathroom for one minute, just give me a set amount of time like 10 min or something. Anyways after all of that I waddled over to the bathroom while I prayed that I wouldn’t explode, thank you smart pass. I give you 2 stars because at least the app looks fun.

I’m a student and this app is a nightmare to deal with. I need it in order to leave after school because I get out a few periods before the rest of the majority of the students and I need to show the security my smart pass. The issue is that it constantly glitches, logs itself out constantly and then says it can’t find your email when you try to log back in, and also doesn’t show my early leave symbol. It used to just take a minute to load the early leave symbol, now it just doesn’t load entirely and I can’t use my phone to leave the school. I need to open my chromebook and try to do it from there, and if that doesn’t work, I’m pretty much stranded at school. This app is too unreliable to be the only way I can leave school. It’s a flawed system.

At our school, we started tracking student’s activity in October of this year. Throughout the year, we have been able to track students activity to the bathrooms, media center, and many other places in our school. The best feature is the encountering prevention for students who do not need to be in the bathroom or halls together. The reports are very helpful to teachers so that we become aware of student’s activity that they should not be involved in, especially with other students who also have encountering preventions. I hope we can tweak Smart Pass even more this coming school year.