Control and manage your visitor flow with a Visitor Management System (VMS) that prioritizes your students and staff’s safety.
Schools are high traffic buildings that can host, on any given week, 10 visitors for every student in attendance in a small district. The number naturally increases in larger districts.
The most obvious visitors to a school might be parents attending meetings with teachers or picking up sick students. But contractors and providers visit schools on a daily basis as part of their every day job. Not to mention the number of guests a school may host on game nights, sponsored events and fundraising. As an administrator, your main challenge is to ensure your students and staff are safe while providing them with the conditions (food, equipment maintenance, etc.) that keep them secure.
A VMS allows the administration full visibility and control over who enters their school.
Maintain an orderly flow of visitors in your school
Whether your school is located in the heart of a big city or in a rural town, the concerns regarding visitors are plenty. Schools in big cities will have significantly more surrounding foot traffic that may interact with the school. But schools in a rural town may be larger and have multiple potential points of entry for visitors. The front desk and security staff in both kinds of school will need a tool to help them and the administration keep an orderly flow of visitors.
Visitor Management Systems help solve this challenge by allowing the front desk staff to digitally manage these visitors. VMSs are infinitely more scalable and reliable than pen and paper sign-in sheets and able to manage key record keeping around the visitors. This allows the front desk staff to be more effective in managing larger numbers of visitors and provide better coverage over schools with a large geographic footprint.
Improve your processes with data and reporting
District and school administrators increasingly need more information to make appropriate decisions and inform others around their operations and security. By digitizing recording keeping around the visitor process, Visitor Management Systems provide this information through reporting and analytics in ways pen and paper sign-in sheets cannot.
Visitor Management Systems allow administrators to quickly answer questions around trends in visits and visitors to their school so they can take proactive and informed decisions around funding, training, and security improvements.
In addition, world-class Visitor Management Solutions include the ability to drill into specific visits or visitors to understand whatever unique incidents might appear with specific visitor.
Guarantee safety and security to your students and staff
Maybe most importantly, Visitor Management Systems are the optimal choice for instantly enhancing the security and safety of schools, students and staff members. Visitor Management Systems will automatically conduct Sex Offender Checks for visitors to a school so that the visitor is prevented entry and staff are immediately notified.
In addition, Visitor Management Systems will provide visitor badges to visitors which clearly indicate who they are and details around the purpose of their visit. This allows any employee on the school to instantly identify a screened visitors and quiz anyone who is acting suspiciously given the information on their visitor badge.
Administrators, school employees, students, parents, visitors themselves and the surrounding community all benefit from this increase in safety and security that Visitor Management Systems provide.
Visitor Management Systems are the future
Visitor Management Systems offer improvements over pen and paper methods of visitor management by guaranteeing the orderly flow or visitors, guaranteeing visibility to administrators, and enhancing community-wide security and safety.
These solutions provide immediate benefits to school districts that adopt them and allow administrators to focus on what matters most to them, while resting easy that their students, their families, and staff are safe and secure.
