Campus Safety / Security

ScholarChip ID Management issues and manages contactless smart credentials for students and staff. The system connects cardholder identity with district records, photos, card printing and encoding, and supported uses such as building access, attendance, transportation, cafeteria transactions, events, and other campus services.

Identity management can strengthen physical security by helping schools know who is authorized and by connecting credentials to access-control and attendance records. It is also a broader operational platform, so districts should distinguish the ID issuance service from separate ScholarChip attendance, visitor, behavior, and access-control modules.

School Check IN is a legacy visitor and front-office management product now owned by Navigate360. It supports visitor sign-in, badge printing, student late-arrival and early-release workflows, and tracking of staff, substitutes, and volunteers so schools can replace handwritten logs and maintain a more reliable record of who is on campus.

Navigate360 is encouraging School Check IN customers to move to its newer Visitor Management platform, which adds stronger screening, districtwide visibility, SIS connections, volunteer workflows, mobile options, and emergency-management integration. Districts still using School Check IN should confirm support timelines and plan migration rather than treating the older and newer products as equivalent.

Verkada is a cloud-managed physical-security platform combining video cameras, access control, alarms, intercoms, visitor management, environmental sensors, and emergency-response tools in one administrative environment. Schools can monitor campuses, investigate incidents, manage doors and credentials, screen visitors, receive analytic alerts, and share selected information with first responders.

Video is stored on Verkada cameras with cloud-based management and remote access rather than through a conventional central NVR design. The integrated approach can simplify administration, but districts should evaluate subscription dependency, bandwidth, retention, privacy and biometric analytics, cybersecurity, open-records response, evidence export, and interoperability before standardizing on the ecosystem.

Verkada Command brings video security, access control, alarms, and environmental sensors into a shared management environment. These are distinct product families that require their respective hardware and subscriptions; use of Verkada cameras does not by itself establish deployment of its door access, alarms, or sensors.