Record students arriving late

Lateness is the most under-recorded thing in a school. A student who arrives six minutes late to every period misses close to half an hour a day, and nothing in a normal roll captures it — the roll says present. Vero records the arrival itself, so the pattern becomes visible.

Recording a late arrival

On desktop, open Log Student, choose the class and student, then selectLate to Class in the action rail. On a phone, use the Late tab — the one place you are actually standing when a student walks in halfway through the starter.

Reading the pattern

Insights → Late to Class is where the recording pays off. The questions it answers are the ones a deputy actually has:

• Which period? Lateness clustered after recess is a movement-and-timing problem, not an attitude problem.
• Which students? A handful of names usually accounts for most of it.
• Which day? Monday period 1 is a different conversation from Thursday period 5.

Lateness and passes together

A student profile puts lateness beside out-of-class passes and totals the class time missed. That total is the number that moves a conversation with a family — not “he’s often late”, but “he has missed eleven hours of class this term”.

Being told about it

An alert rule with a tally threshold can notify a year coordinator when a student reaches, say, five late arrivals — early enough to intervene rather than at the end of term when the report is written.