Existing tools stop at attendance OR substitute placement OR safety alerts. Safer Attendance is the first platform to connect all three - so when a sub is assigned, you can verify they're actually in the room, and parents know their child is accounted for.
Most schools cobble together 2-3 different systems. Here's what falls through the cracks.
PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, etc.
Teacher manually marks students present. No QR verification. No real-time parent view. No connection to who is actually covering the class.
Frontline, SubFinder, etc.
Assigns a substitute to a job. But once they accept, the system goes silent. Did they show up? Are they in the right room? Nobody knows until someone checks.
Raptor, SchoolPass, etc.
Knows who entered the building. But doesn't know which classroom they should be in, whether they're covering Period 3 or Period 5, or if they left early.
Safer Attendance connects all three into one closed loop: absence → assignment → verification → accountability.
How Safer Attendance stacks up against the tools schools typically use.
They're not bad products. They just solve one piece of the puzzle.
Student Information System
PowerSchool is the industry-standard SIS. It handles grades, enrollment, and teacher-entered attendance. But it wasn't built for the operational chaos of daily coverage management.
What's missing
What we add
Substitute Management (Aesop)
Frontline (formerly Aesop/SubFinder) is the market leader in substitute placement. But their job ends when the sub accepts the assignment. What happens after that is your problem.
What's missing
What we add
Safety / Visitor Management
Raptor excels at visitor screening and building access. But it tracks who enters the building, not who is in which classroom or whether coverage is actually happening.
What's missing
What we add
These innovations are unique to Safer Attendance. They're not features you can find elsewhere with a different name - they don't exist in any other K-12 platform.
Students scan a classroom QR code with their own phone. No hardware to buy, no teacher roll call, no cards to lose. Five different roles see attendance data filtered to exactly what they're authorized to view.
No other system offers student-initiated attendance with role-scoped real-time views.
When a sub is assigned to cover Period 3 in Room 204, the system verifies they actually scanned into Room 204 during Period 3. If they don't, administration gets an alert.
Sub placement tools stop at assignment. Safety tools don't know about assignments. We connect both.
Emergency alerts, attendance updates, and pickup notifications are routed based on custody status, guardian type, and per-relationship preferences - not just "Contact 1, Contact 2."
No other system routes school notifications based on custody metadata and relationship type.
Coverage assignments are distributed based on days since last assignment, monthly hours, department, and certification match. Everyone can see the rotation is fair.
Eliminates "Why do I always get coverage?" complaints with transparent, auditable distribution.
One teacher absence automatically generates per-period coverage requests, notifies eligible subs, and escalates through tiers if unfilled. Admin intervention is the last resort, not the first.
Turns a single absence notification into a fully resolved coverage plan without manual coordination.
One substitute profile works across multiple districts. Apply once, get approved per-district, and see jobs from all your approved schools in a single dashboard.
Increases your available substitute pool without requiring subs to maintain separate accounts.
See how Safer Attendance connects attendance, coverage, and safety into a single platform your whole school community can use.