WHY RED ROVER
Red Rover brings the work of K-12 HR together on one platform, from absences and time tracking to hiring, professional development, and employee records. Five purpose-built products, one connected system
Manage leave and keep every classroom covered.
Capture time accurately across every role, schedule, and pay rule.
Move candidates from application through onboarding in one place.
Keep every employee’s information in one record, connected to every product.
Plan and track PD, from approvals to credit toward renewal.
Positions, locations, and employee information are set up once and shared across every Red Rover product, so each one starts from what your district has already built.
An employee’s information follows them from application and onboarding into absences, time, professional learning, and credentials, so their record builds over time instead of starting over at each step.
What happens in one product can set the next step in motion in another, like an absence that creates a substitute assignment or a PD enrollment that creates an absence.
Absence Management + Time Tracking
A teacher reports an absence and a substitute accepts the assignment. When the substitute clocks in, their time stays tied to the absence and assignment that created it, and the teacher’s timesheet already reflects the day away. That means less reconciliation before payroll.
Absence Reported → Substitute Assigned → Time Captured → Approved → Ready for Payroll
Hiring + Records
When a candidate accepts an offer, their application details, onboarding forms, and documents carry forward into their employee record, eliminating duplicate entry at the handoff. From there, the same record is ready for absence management, time tracking, and professional development.
Applicant → Offer → Onboarding → Employee Record → Ready for Every Product
PDM + Absence Management + Records
When an employee enrolls in PD during the school day, Red Rover can create the absence and, if your district requires it, open it for substitute coverage. Completed PD can count toward credential renewal and becomes part of the employee’s PD history on their record. Add Time Tracking, and PD hours land on the timesheet with the right accounting code.
PD Request → Approval → Absence + Coverage → Attendance + Completion → Credit Toward Credentials
Information entered in one product carries forward to the others, so your team spends less time retyping what the district already knows and more time on the people behind it.
HR, payroll, principals, and supervisors work from the same information inside one platform, with fewer exports, spreadsheets, and follow-up emails along the way.
View an employee's absences, time, PD, and records together, and give district leaders reporting that draws on every product your district uses.
Employees, substitutes, principals, and HR teams get a familiar experience across the work they do, whether that's reporting an absence, submitting time, or signing up for PD.
Yes, that makes HR easier.
WHY DISTRICTS CHOOSE RED ROVER
Every workflow, field, and rule exists because of real district work, from bell schedules and extra duty to substitute coverage and credential renewal.
District feedback shapes where Red Rover goes next. Improvements ship every week, and early-access programs let districts test new features before they reach everyone.
Five products today aren’t the finish line. Every new Red Rover product is built on the same platform, so it’s designed to connect with the rest from day one.
Modern software shouldn’t mean distant service. Red Rover pairs the platform with an in-house K-12 implementation team and real people on live chat when you need help.
More than 1,700 school districts across the country rely on Red Rover.
By using Red Rover Records, we’ve eliminated paper forms, Google Forms, and JotForms by centralizing everything into one streamlined system.
Eric Ulas Manager, Human Resources Administration Columbus City Schools
