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Record an infraction

Record an infraction for one student in a tap, or for several students at once. If you haven't yet, set up your quick buttons first, so your four most-used infractions are one tap away.

Record an infraction for one student

1. Open the student

From your class grid, choose a period and select the student's name to open their page.
2. Choose the infraction

Under Quick Infractions, choose one of your four red buttons, such as Cell Phone. It's recorded immediately — there's no confirmation step, so a tap is final (you can still fix a mistake afterward, see below).

For any other type, use the All infraction types dropdown underneath and choose Record Infraction.
$A student's page with four Quick Infractions buttons, numbered 1, and the All infraction types dropdown with a Record Infraction button, numbered 2$

Record the same infraction for several students at once

1. On your class grid, choose Select Students.
2. Select each student who gets the infraction. A bar shows how many you have selected.
3. Choose Give Infraction. Pick the Infraction type, add Notes if you like, and choose Record Infractions.

$The class grid in select mode with two students checked, numbered 1 and 2, and the sticky action bar at the bottom with Give Pass, Give Infraction, Add Note and Clear, numbered 3$

Fixing a mistake

Open the student's page and find the infraction under Today's Passes & Infractions. Three actions are available on it:

Edit — change the infraction itself.
Note — add or change its notes. This is always available, even once Edit and Delete aren't.
Delete — remove it completely. HallTracker asks you to confirm first.

Edit and Delete only appear for a short time after you record an infraction, and only for the teacher who recorded it (or a school administrator). Once that window passes, the record is kept as-is — you can still add a note to explain it, but not change or remove it. An infraction that HallTracker generated automatically, such as a tardy from a pass that ran long, can't be edited or deleted at all, since it reflects what actually happened on the pass.

Practice Mode

Infractions can't be recorded in Practice Mode — it's for trying out hall passes only, without touching your real records. The Quick Infractions section doesn't appear while you're in it.

Troubleshooting

Check you are on the right period tab. Students appear in the sections you teach, so if a period or class is missing, ask your school administrator to check your sections.

Open the student's page, find it under Today's Passes & Infractions, and choose Edit or Delete. These only work for a short time after recording.

That window has passed, or someone else recorded it. You can still add a note to explain what happened. A school administrator can still edit or delete it.

Infractions HallTracker creates on its own, such as a tardy from a pass that ran long, reflect what the system recorded for that pass and can't be edited or deleted. Add a note, or ask your school administrator about the underlying pass.

The choices are the infraction types your school has set up. Ask your school administrator to add it under Infraction Types in the Admin Panel. If you are the administrator, add it there yourself.

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