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brb. is a touchless kiosk built for landscape. Turn your device sideways to use the classroom screen.
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⚙ Settings
Enter your teacher PIN to access settings.
Incorrect PIN.
Reset Teacher PIN
We'll email a 6-digit code to …. Enter the code on the next screen to set a new PIN.
If that's not your email, sign out of brb. and back in with the correct Google account first.
Set a New Teacher PIN
Enter the 6-digit code, then choose a new 4-digit teacher PIN. Sent to … — the code expires in 10 minutes.
Check Spam/Promotions if it's not in your inbox.
Create your Teacher PIN
Set a 4-digit PIN to protect Settings, photos, and reports. Students can't get past it; you'll use it for every teacher area.
Keep it somewhere safe. Signed-in teachers can use Forgot PIN to verify their account by email.
Settings
Clock formatTime display
Features
Sounds
Sound
Volume70%
Substitute PIN
Set a separate PIN your substitute can use for the bottom-right action buttons (Undo Last Sign-In, Sign In All Students) and for Teacher Override (signing a student in without their animal). Settings and Gallery still require your main Teacher PIN. Leave blank to disable.
Sub PIN
Auto-Lock
After this much idle time, the kiosk locks and requires the PIN (or sub PIN) to use again. Set to Never if you'd rather rely on the screen-dim feature alone (see below).
Lock after
Screen Dim
After this many seconds of no activity, fade the kiosk to a quiet dimmed state so it isn't distracting students. Any tap or hand wave wakes it back up instantly. Set to Off to disable.
Dim after
End-of-Day Lock
Automatically lock the kiosk at a specific time each day so it can't be used after hours. Defaults to 2:40 PM on weekdays. Toggle individual days off if your schedule varies.
Lock at
Active days
Preview
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Shape
Outline
Color
Trail
Reason Buttons
Check to show on the sign-out picker. Type to rename the label that students see.
Account
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Checking your account
Opens your Lemon Squeezy billing portal in a new tab. You can cancel, update payment, change plan, or download invoices there. Sign in via the email link they send you.
🔑 Change teacher PIN →
If you forget it, use the "Forgot PIN" link in the gallery unlock screen to reset via email.
Marks every currently-out student as signed back in. Useful if pin counts don't match what's on screen. Photos are kept in the gallery.
Wipes everything on this device — roster, classes, active passes, today's gallery, all photos, settings, and the Teacher PIN. brb. restarts like a fresh install. Cannot be undone.
Wipes roster, active passes, gallery, photos, PINs, and settings. Use when handing the iPad to another teacher, at the end of the school year, or if you want to start fresh. Cannot be undone.
Switch classEach class has its own roster, passes, and gallery
Editing roster for
My Class
Students pick their name when signing out. Each student picks a secret animal at sign-out that they'll need to remember to sign back in.
📋 Bulk add — paste many names
Configure when each class meets. brb. will automatically switch to the right class at the start of each period.
Manual switching always overrides auto-switch — but only until the next period boundary.
⚡ Quick setup
Set how many periods you teach in a day. We'll create the rows for you — you just fill in start times and pick a class for each.
Archived classes are kept here so you don't lose data when you stop using a class. You can restore them or delete them permanently.
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Dashboard
Hall-pass analytics & trends
🚩 Frequent-Flyer Alerts
A red flag appears next to any student who exceeds either limit on a given day. Medically-excused students are never flagged.
📸 Photos stay inside brb. — they never save to your iPad's Photo Library or your Chromebook's Downloads folder unless you tap Export Photos (ZIP) above. Photos auto-delete after 30 days to keep brb. fast; pass records (name, time, reason) stick around longer for trends.
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Student Stats
Per-student usage, time out, and top reasons
Change Teacher PIN
📊 Data & Analytics
Enter your teacher PIN to view photos, dashboard, student stats, and archive.
Incorrect PIN.
📊 Data & Analytics
What would you like to see?
↺ Reset All Data
This will permanently delete everything: all students in the roster, any currently signed-out passes, the entire gallery/log history, and all settings. The teacher PIN will be cleared — you will be asked to create a new one before the kiosk can be unlocked again.
This cannot be undone.
Incorrect PIN.
🗑 Wipe Data & Photos
This will permanently delete everything on this device:
All photos (the gallery)
All pass records (dashboard counts, student stats history)
Any currently signed-out passes (students will be marked in)
All rosters and classes
All settings and the Teacher PIN
brb. will restart like a fresh install, with the introduction and a new PIN setup.
This cannot be undone.
Incorrect PIN or confirmation.
↶ Undo Last Sign-In
You're about to undo the most recent sign-in.
Incorrect PIN.
After undoing, click "Undo Again" to keep going back.
✓︎ Sign In All Students
Sign every student currently out back in?
Incorrect PIN.
👫 Who's back?
These two left together. Who just came back?
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📷 Today's Gallery
Photos of today's sign-outs. For detailed stats, logs, and CSV export, open the Dashboard from the Data menu.
brb. is included with the Big Brain Labs All-Access subscription — one plan unlocks every BBL tool.
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