Induction kiosk
/induct. Needs module.inductions.
A start-of-year station for device handouts. A student taps their card, or types their username, and sees where they are in the process.
What a student sees
Section titled “What a student sees”| State | Message |
|---|---|
| Not on a list | “Please see the technician” |
| In progress | “Please see the technician to collect your device”, with the program name |
| Completed | A green “You’re all set!” with the issued device model and serial, and any device they returned |
There is a staff sign-in link at the bottom.
Why it earns a screen
Section titled “Why it earns a screen”Handout week is two hundred students, a queue down the corridor, and four staff. The question every one of those students asks is “am I on the list”, and each answer costs a staff member thirty seconds and their place in whatever they were doing.
A tablet at the front of the queue answers it, sorts students into the right line, and tells the ones who are already done that they are done.
Setting it up
Section titled “Setting it up”A tablet at the front of the queue, in full screen, with a card reader.
A sign saying “tap here first”. The whole benefit depends on students using it before they join the queue.
Somewhere staff can see, so anybody confused gets help without leaving the line.
Where the data comes from
Section titled “Where the data comes from”The inductions page is the staff half. Rosters are imported there, progress is tracked there, and issued devices are recorded there.
This page reads that.
Card taps
Section titled “Card taps”Uses the same lookup as the card checker, so card numbers come from your student information system.
Handout week is when you find out whether your card data is complete. It is worth tapping a handful of cards from each year group a week before, rather than discovering the gap with a queue in front of you.
Username entry
Section titled “Username entry”Available as a fallback, and subject to the same PORTAL_USERNAME_ENTRY setting
as the main kiosk.
For an induction station this is a more reasonable trade than elsewhere: the page shows whether somebody is on a list and what device they were issued, which is less sensitive than a repair history, and the station is by definition supervised. It is still off by default.