The Student Dot

A precise drawing of an ordinary day.

The Student Dot is a small tag each student wears, a few anchors around campus, and one calm screen at the front desk.

Illustrative demo. These dots are not real students.

Illustrative campus plan: lower school, library, gym, arts, main building with the front office, and the field. Demo dots show 20 students and 3 guests, each present in a building or on the field.

People, present in a building or on the field: Student Guest

  • Present in Lower school: 6 students.
  • Present in Library: 1 student, 1 guest.
  • Present in Gym: 3 students, 1 guest.
  • Present in Arts: 2 students.
  • Present in Main building: 2 students, 1 guest.
  • Present in Field: 6 students.

Bench footage: the real dot moving on the operator map

Poster frame. Footage not yet placed.

What the video shows

The real dot moving on the operator map during a bench test.

Drag the dot. Each line is a distance.

In each corner, an anchor on the wall hears the dot. Each dotted line is how far the dot is from one of them.

Static diagram: the dot rests in one place, and each dotted line shows its distance to an anchor.

A square room, 12 meters on a side, with an anchor in each corner. Dotted lines run from each anchor to the dot. The dot

Illustrative room, 12 meters on a side.

Illustrative demo. These dots are not real students.

  • North-west anchor 9.0 m
  • North-east anchor 6.2 m
  • South-west anchor 10.8 m
  • South-east anchor 8.6 m

The dot is 6.2 meters from the north-east anchor, the nearest.

How it works, in full

The one screen the front desk sees.

One calm screen and a small set of typed alerts.

Illustrative demo. These dots are not real students.

Illustrative campus plan: lower school, library, gym, arts, main building with the front office, and the field. Demo dots show 20 students and 3 guests, each present in a building or on the field.

People, present in a building or on the field: Student Guest

Alert types

None is active in this demo.

  • Leaves campus

    Illustrative story. Mia left campus 3:04pm with authorized pickup.

  • Lockdown

    The lockdown story, from 00:00 to 01:30.

Illustrative demo. These dots are not real students.

Illustrative campus plan: lower school, library, gym, arts, main building with the front office, and the field. Demo dots show 20 students and 3 guests, all gathered on the field.

People, present in a building or on the field: Student Guest

23 of 23 present in the field. All here.

Illustrative demo. These dots are not real students.

To share with your school.

The lockdown story

A lockdown, told as a timeline.

Read the lockdown story

00:00 to 01:30