Best way to track students between rooms during COVID?

Mary Ann Shinnick

Hello and help! I was hoping to use SmartSheet as a means to track nursing students between rooms in a school. I had thought having a barcode on entry and one on exit would be the easiest for them as they already fill out a tracing form for the University but not sure how to get this tracing data into a sheet. I'm open to suggestions!

SoS | Dan Palenchar

Barcode scanning can be done via the Smartsheet Mobile App, see https://www.smartsheet.com/content-center/product-news/product-releases/increase-speed-accuracy-mobile-barcode-scanning.

There are multiple ways you could accommodate this. Do you have a Sheet set up with the students in it? At a minimum, you will need that source sheet their names, probably email address, and columns for when they entered/exit. You could simply prompt students to add enter/exit dates via update requests, or you could use the barcode feature and have a lookup table to tie the barcode values to different rooms or other data.

SoS | Dan Palenchar

Barcode scanning can be done via the Smartsheet Mobile App, see https://www.smartsheet.com/content-center/product-news/product-releases/increase-speed-accuracy-mobile-barcode-scanning.

There are multiple ways you could accommodate this. Do you have a Sheet set up with the students in it? At a minimum, you will need that source sheet their names, probably email address, and columns for when they entered/exit. You could simply prompt students to add enter/exit dates via update requests, or you could use the barcode feature and have a lookup table to tie the barcode values to different rooms or other data.

Mary Ann Shinnick

Thanks so much for this. It seems a bit over my SmartSheet level but I will give it a try.

Appreciate your time!