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#1 Posted : 02 September 2009 13:39:00(UTC)
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Posted By SL Hi All, The college that I work in are doing away with paper registers. Instead, tutors will log attendence of students at a terminal (PC) in each classroom which will feed back to a central server. As I'm from industry, the prospect of a 'paperless roll call' unsettled me at first, but other practitioners that I know who work in College/uni's have similar systems. I'm happy with our fire marshal set-up but was wondering if there's anybody out there with similar experinces and any useful insight or advice.
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#2 Posted : 02 September 2009 13:51:00(UTC)
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Posted By Robert Randall Hi SL, I personally never recommend roll call systems of any kind precisely because there is an almost 100% certainty that they are not going to be up to date. "I'm just nipping out for a whatever" or "I didn't get round to updating it" or "I forgot to sign out / in" etc etc. Much better to have a sweep system with fire wardens checking their respective areas.
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#3 Posted : 02 September 2009 14:13:00(UTC)
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Posted By Kevin Drum SL I too work for a College and we use the sweep system with wardens reporting to person in charge that there area is clear. Kevin
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#4 Posted : 02 September 2009 16:07:00(UTC)
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Posted By Coshh Assessor I think the electronic systems can only be relied on if they are linked to physical access (ie you have to swipe in/out to open the entrance/exit). Even then they are not perfect. I agree that a sweep would make more sense.
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#5 Posted : 02 September 2009 16:11:00(UTC)
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Posted By Andrew Kurdziel We have never had a paper roll call, with people moving in and out of the site and around the site( we have two fire assembly points: people go to the nearest). So a sweep makes more sense.
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#6 Posted : 02 September 2009 16:46:00(UTC)
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Posted By Stuff4blokes Add my voice to the "pro-sweep" movement. There are any number of reasons why students, college staff and visitors may appear on the computer list as present when they are not and vice versa.
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#7 Posted : 02 September 2009 18:45:00(UTC)
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Posted By SL Thanks all.
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