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How to Put Kiosk Check-In on the Home Screen

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Although you can operate a Kiosk Check-In screen from a normal browser window, installing it as an app that you can access from your homescreen could be a valuable shortcut. 

Before you start

Make sure you have a dedicated attendance employee account that has the ability to access the Kiosk Check-In feature, programs and ranks set up, and students with at least one program attached.

Log in on the kiosk device using that attendance account, then click Attendance → Kiosk Check In in the left panel and log in again when prompted. That second login is what stops a student backing out into your account.

iPad or iPhone (Safari)

  1. With Kiosk Check-In open, tap the Share icon.
  2. Tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Name it “Check In” and tap Add.

Android tablet or phone (Chrome)

  1. With Kiosk Check-In open, tap the kebab (three vertical dots) in the top right.
  2. Tap Add to Home Screen or Install app.
  3. Tap Install, then Install again.

Kindle Fire (Silk browser)

Silk can’t install web apps, so bookmark it instead — see How to Use a Kindle Fire Tablet for Kiosk Check-In.

Windows or Mac (Chrome or Edge)

  1. With Kiosk Check-In open, click the kebab (three vertical dots) beside the address bar.
  2. Click Install Kicksite, or Cast, save and share → Install page as app depending on your version.
  3. Click Install.

The icon lands on your Desktop on Windows, or in Launchpad and Applications on a Mac.

After installing

Open the app icon rather than the browser from now on. Kicksite may ask you to log in the first time.

i Note: Sessions time out after 2 hours for security. On a busy day the kiosk will ask for the attendance account credentials again — which is another reason those should be an employee login, not yours.

Going further

If you want the tablet locked to this one app so students can’t leave it at all, both iPad and Android have that built in — Guided Access on iPad, Screen Pinning on Android. Both are in the device’s accessibility or security settings, not in Kicksite.

Troubleshooting

There’s no Install option in the menu. You’re not on a supported browser, or not on https. Chrome, Edge, and Safari all support this; Firefox on desktop does not.

It opens in a browser tab instead of full screen. You’ve bookmarked it rather than installed it. Delete the shortcut and follow the steps again.

It keeps asking me to log in. That’s the 2-hour session timeout. Expected.

Students can still see the back button. The install didn’t take, or someone opened it from the browser rather than the icon.

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