Sickbay is managed through health and safety incidents: checking a student into
Sickbay is managed through health and safety incidents: checking a student into sickbay is part of recording the incident that sent them there. The Students in Sickbay dashboard widget shows who is in sickbay right now.
Checking a student into sickbay
- Record (or open) the health and safety incident and select the student under Affected People — a sickbay grid appears below the student list.
- Set the student's Sickbay check-in date and time (it can't be in the future).
- Save the incident. The student now shows as in sickbay.
Checking a student out
- Open the incident (from the Incidents page, or by clicking the student's name on the sickbay widget).
- Set the Sickbay check-out date and time for that student.
- Update the incident. The student drops off the sickbay list.
The check-out cannot be earlier than the check-in, and you can't record a check-out without a check-in.
The "Students in Sickbay" dashboard widget
Add the widget from the dashboard widget catalogue (it requires the Manage Health and Safety Incidents permission). It shows:
- a count — "There are N students in sickbay" — linking to the Incidents page, and
- each student currently in sickbay, linking straight to their incident so you can check them out.
For teacher-only users the widget is view-only (names shown but not clickable).
Who counts as "in sickbay"?
A student is in sickbay when an incident has a check-in with no check-out. Students are listed once even if they have more than one open incident. Open check-ins from a previous day are automatically excluded from the current list, so yesterday's un-checked-out entries don't linger — but it's good practice to record the check-out anyway so the record is complete.
Screenshot: Students in Sickbay widget on the dashboard