Digital Class Register

Digital Class Register for Schools

The paper class register, reimagined: teachers log lesson content, homework and attendance every period in seconds. Parents' sick notes reconcile automatically – and the form teacher sees unexcused absences at a glance.

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  • GDPR-compliant
  • Hosted in Germany
  • Free for teachers

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Benefits

Why schools keep their class register digital

Logged in seconds

Attendance, lateness and lesson content in a few taps – on a tablet, laptop or phone.

Absences reconcile themselves

Parents' sick notes flow in automatically; only genuinely unexcused absences stay open.

Per-student insights

Absence statistics per student and school year – for reports, parent meetings and tracking medical certificates.

Legally sound records

Only permitted data categories, an audit trail and role-based visibility. Hosted in Germany.

How it works

Four steps to a digital class register

From the first login to the analysis at the end of the school year, it takes four steps that a school can work through on its own, with no training days and no extra hardware.

1 2 3 4
  1. 1

    Set up classes and subjects

    The school leadership creates classes, subjects and teachers, or imports an existing timetable. After that, every teacher sees exactly the lessons they actually teach as soon as they log in.

  2. 2

    Log attendance every period

    During the lesson the teacher taps attendance, lateness or absence. The entry belongs to the individual period rather than to the whole day, which makes it dependable straight away.

  3. 3

    Reconcile the excuse notes

    When parents report their child sick, the system assigns the report to the affected periods and marks them as excused. Only what is genuinely unexcused stays open.

  4. 4

    Analyse and archive

    For reports or parent meetings, the statistics supply the totals per pupil and school year. Older school years stay readably archived until the retention period that applies to your school has expired.

In comparison

Digital vs. paper class register

SchuleVernetzt
AbsencesAutomatic reconciliation with sick notes
AvailabilityFrom any device, any time
AnalysisPer-student statistics at the touch of a button
SecurityNo loss, encrypted, audit trail
Paper class register
AbsencesAdding and counting by hand
AvailabilityOne book, sitting in the classroom
AnalysisCounting by hand at the end of the school year
SecurityOnce it is lost it is gone, open for anyone to read
In detail

The digital class register in detail

Attendance per period, not per day

A paper class register usually knows only the whole day of absence. It cannot answer whether a child missed the third period or was only away from the fifth onwards. SchuleVernetzt records attendance where it arises: in the individual lesson. Every teacher notes for their own period who was there, who arrived late and who was missing – on a tablet, laptop or phone, in a matter of seconds. Those period entries automatically build up into the picture of the day, and from there into the yearly total. Lateness, single missed lessons and full days of absence stay separately countable, because the school rules treat them differently. Lesson content and homework sit in the same entry, so a cover teacher can see at once where the class stands.

Excuse notes and absences belong together

The greatest effort is not the recording but the joining up: here the missed period in the register, there the phone call from the parents, later the slip of paper in the folder. SchuleVernetzt handles both in one operation. When a sick note arrives, the system looks for the affected periods and marks them as excused – retroactively as well as for a future date range. Whatever is still open afterwards is genuinely unexcused and stays visible to the form teacher instead of disappearing into a tally list. If your school requires a doctor's note from a certain day of absence, the system reminds in good time; which day that is, or whether such a threshold exists at all, comes from your school's attendance policy and the education law behind it, not from the software.

Data protection, roles and retention

A class register holds personal data on minors, and in part health data. SchuleVernetzt processes it exclusively on servers inside the EU, in Germany, and supplies the data processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR as well as a procedural description for the record of processing activities. Who sees what is decided by the role: a subject teacher sees their own lessons, the form teacher the whole class, the school office the incoming excuse notes. Every access and every later change lands in the audit trail, so that a correction stays traceable. At the end of the retention period – whose length comes from the education law your school sits under – year groups can be deleted in an orderly way, instead of storing files in the basement indefinitely.

Start without disruption

Set up classes, subjects and teachers – existing timetables can be imported. You go digital from the very first lesson, with no training days needed.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about the digital class register

Yes, provided only permitted data categories are kept and a procedural description is in place. SchuleVernetzt supplies both and keeps an audit trail of all access and changes.

Entries can be recorded on the device and sync as soon as the connection is back. For everyday use, the school Wi-Fi is enough.

When parents report their child sick via the app, the absence appears automatically as excused in the class register – no double entry.

Visibility depends on the role. Subject teachers see the lessons they teach themselves, the form teacher sees the whole class including the absence overview, and the school office sees the incoming excuse notes. Parents see only their own child. Every access is logged, so in case of doubt it stays traceable who created or changed an entry.

Yes. An entry made in error can be corrected without losing the history: the original version is preserved in the audit trail, and the change is documented with time and person. That is exactly what school inspectorates and data protection expect of a register that replaces a paper document.

How long a class register must be kept comes from the education law your school sits under, and the periods differ considerably; inside Germany alone they differ from one federal state to the next. SchuleVernetzt keeps school years separate, so an expired year group can be deleted deliberately without touching current data. The school sets the period; the system implements it technically.
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