For the past two school years, University High School has chosen to give passes to students electronically on a website called “e-hallpass,” rather than write paper passes. 

“It’s more eco-friendly, there’s no waste of the paper passes, it also gives us data that we can track,” said UHSSE vice principal Jennifer Todisco. “If we want to limit student interactions for whatever reason it allows us to do that, whereas before teachers were just writing passes and were unaware how many students were out of their other classrooms.” 

Ms. Todisco also shared that something that happened before e-hallpass was that students would find a pack of paper passes in study hall and take them, and now that passes are electronic it has eliminated something like that from happening again. She also shared that the administration has no regrets with choosing to do e-hallpass and that it has been a positive experience. 

It automatically collects all kinds of data, but the administrators look at individual students or trends, and the amount of time that students spend out of class. They can also look at how many hours of class that students have missed. It can also look at if students are taking the same passes at the same time at the same location. Each student receives five passes a day, so they at least get a pass per class period. However, they also have time before class and transition times between classes. Ms. Todisco shared that no students have come to inform her that they need more passes. There have been times where either the student or the teacher have forgotten to end the pass, but they just receive a nice reminder from administration, and teachers can also edit the amount of time on the pass that the student was out of class.