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How Active Travel Logger works, who does what, and where to start.
Active Travel Logger records how every pupil got to school, every morning. A teacher runs a short roll call on the classroom whiteboard, pupils tap a tile to say how they travelled, and the figures appear on the council's dashboard the same morning.
It runs in a web browser. There is nothing to install, and it works on interactive whiteboards, phones, tablets and laptops, including Chromebooks.
Where to start
Pick the section that matches what you do.
- Teachers — take the morning roll call. This is the daily job and takes about a minute.
- School offices — set the school up, then import your class lists from Aladdin or VSWare.
- Councils — get started and read your dashboards.
Pupils — if your school lets you check in on your own phone, see how to check in and your class's journey around Ireland.
Parents and guardians — if your school has sent you a class link, see what the class view shows.
Who does what
| Role | Who usually holds it | What they can do |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher | Classroom teachers | See their school's figures and record journeys for their classes |
| School Administrator | Principals, deputy principals, active travel coordinators | Everything within their own school — classes, rosters and codes |
| Council Administrator | Council programme staff | Everything across all participating schools, plus accounts and API keys |
| Council Viewer | Council analysts and reporting staff | Read-only access across the council area |
Pupils do not have accounts and are never named. On the whiteboard each pupil is a tile bearing a nickname the system generates from a colour and an animal — for example Teal Otter. Parents and guardians do not have accounts either; they open a class view using a class code.
The three kinds of code
Three different codes open three different things. They are not interchangeable.
| Code | Who uses it | What it opens |
|---|---|---|
| School access code | School staff | The roll-call board, without signing in. Needed every time a journey is recorded. |
| Class code | Parents and guardians of one class | A read-only view of that class's aggregate figures. No individual pupil appears. |
| API key | Council Administrators only | Programmatic access to aggregate export data. |
A school access code is a shared credential of the school. Do not publish it, do not display it on a public-facing screen, and do not send it outside the school. If it may have been seen by someone who should not have it, ask an administrator to change it.
A class code goes only to the parents and guardians of pupils in that class, through the school's normal parent communication channel. Never post one on a school website or on social media.
The eight ways to travel
Every journey is recorded as one of these:
Walk / Wheel · Cycle · Scooter · Park & Stride · Bus · Train or Luas · Car-share · Car
A journey can be changed until 23:59 on the day it was recorded.
What the system stores about pupils
No personal data about pupils. No names, no addresses, no devices. A pupil is a numbered tile within a class, shown with a generated colour-and-animal nickname, and what is stored is how that tile travelled on a given morning. Everything a council sees is an aggregate count.
Getting help
Raise routine questions with your School Administrator or Council Administrator first — most things, including codes and class lists, are fixed there.
If you are reporting a problem with a browser or a device, open the support page on the device that is having trouble. It reads the device's details locally in the browser and shows them on screen. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to share it.
Still stuck? Email our support team.