Know who's out of class right now — without handing a kid a Chromebook.
So a pass works for the kid whose Chromebook died at lunch.
Hallpass keeps the paper pass your school already uses and does the recording for you — who's out, where they went, and who never came back.
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What Hallpass does
The paper pass keeps working. Your phone does the paperwork.
So the habit your teachers already have becomes the record.
See who's in the building but not in class — before anyone has to radio three teachers.
So a missing student is noticed by the building, not by luck.
An empty list tells you nobody's missing — or that nobody has looked. It says which.
So an empty board means checked, not ignored.
Out of the box, Hallpass just logs. Every limit is off until you turn it on.
So you start by seeing what actually happens, instead of enforcing rules you guessed at.
Meet a student in the corridor and look them up before you ask.
So the conversation starts from what's true, not from what a student decides to tell you.
The board says unaccounted, never "skipping".
So a child isn't accused of something the data doesn't actually show.
Sound familiar?
- “Every hall pass system we looked at needs student logins. Half our kids don't have a charged device by third period.”
- “We tried going digital and went back to paper in a month.”
- “A kid isn't in my room and I have no idea whether they're absent, at the nurse, or wandering.”
- “The dashboard was green all morning. Turns out four teachers hadn't taken attendance.”
- “The new system arrived with somebody else's rules already switched on.”
- “I ask where they're supposed to be and get whatever answer they like.”
- “The dashboard labels kids truant when half the time a teacher just hasn't submitted roll.”
Hallpass was built for schools that tried digital passes and went back to paper.
Hall passes show up here too
When a student is marked absent but a pass says they were at the nurse, you see it on their row — and can excuse it with the pass as the reason. Works with Attendance.
Before Binder sends an absence letter, it checks the hall passes. If she was at the nurse that day, it stops and shows you. Works with Attendance.
The pass shows up in the gradebook
If a student was out on a pass when work was due, the gradebook shows it next to the missing grade. One tap excuses it, with the pass as the reason. Works with Gradebook.
What the sub enters, the office sees
When a sub takes attendance from their phone, the office sees it right away, marked unverified until someone approves it. Works with Sub Packet, Attendance.
What you're using now
Most schools run passes on a wooden block, a sign-out clipboard by the door, and a teacher's memory. It works, and it tells you nothing afterwards: nobody can say who is out of class right now, and the clipboard can't notice a student who never came back. The digital alternatives ask every child to carry a charged device and log in, which is why so many schools tried one and went back to paper. Hallpass keeps the paper and does the noticing.
Every Binder app works like this
Built for your phone first
Every screen works in a hallway, not just at a desk.
Paper is a first-class input
Point your camera at a roster, a sign-out sheet, a stack of work — Binder drafts, you approve.
Your district's words
Labels and letters render in your district's own terminology.
AI drafts, people decide
Nothing becomes a record until a person says so.
More on how Binder works: the platform · security & privacy
Every Feature You'd Expect. Every Feature You'll Need.
The ordinary things a tool like this has to do. Listed so you can check them off.
- Destinations you define, with icons and ordering
- Printable pass sheets
- A hall-duty corridor view with timers
- Per-student restrictions and keep-apart pairs
- Access grants for subs and volunteers, no account needed
- Review and approval of unverified passes
14 days, no credit card, nothing to install. Explore with sample data, or bring your own roster.