How to Get the Most Out of School ID Badges

Universities and colleges use ID badges and access cards to help control student population, provide access to facilities, and even pay for on-campus purchases of food, laundry usage, and printer or copier use. Here’s one way a K-12 school district, University or college campus can put school ID badges and access cards to excellent use.

Alternate Uses You Should Consider

In addition to clearly identifying who are students, teachers, administrative staff, and visitors at a glance, here are a few additional ways you can make your school ID badges work for you.

Prepaid Debit Card. Imagine how quickly your school cafeteria line can move if students don’t have to use cash to purchase meals. Students can swipe their prepaid cards through a reader, which deducts the cost of the meal simply and quickly.

Reduce paper. Store student information like class schedule, emergency contact information, and even what medications students take on student ID badges for quick and easy access.

Track access and usage. Student ID badges can be used to track who has access to a variety of facilities, like labs or classrooms, and equipment, like athletic workout equipment, library books, audio-visual equipment, computers, and other technology.

Track attendance. You can easily track attendance, monitor after-school activities, and allow access to special events. Student ID badges can also be used to ensure students get on the right school bus at the end of the day.

Make Instant Identification Easy

There are a variety of features you can incorporate into your student ID badges that will enhance security and safety of all students, faculty, vendors and visitors.

Consider using different color cards to visually identify student, faculty, vendors and visitors at a glance. Or if you want to use the same color cards for everyone, you can put a different colored bar at the top of each badge to help distinguish between the groups of people in your facility. Custom or stock Holograms offer a higher level of visual security that is tamper-proof and difficult to reproduce.

Visitor badges can be low-tech or high-tech, depending on your security requirements. You can go with a different colored badge or bar at the top, or you can choose self-expiring badges that change color or have text show up when the badge’s time limit is expired. Either way, you get an instant visual verification of who should be on your school’s campus and who shouldn’t.

The IDSecurityOnline Difference

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IDSecurityOnline lets you customize your system to ensure it meets both your functional and security needs. Every security program can be designed to grow with your security requirements. Enhance your existing security program by choosing different cards, upgrade the printer for more functionality, or select a better camera for your photos.

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