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School district administrators will save hours of admin time thanks to a pair of time-saving invoicing capabilities in TravelTracker-Trips. 

The Travel Tracker is a cloud based field trip software that allows you to quickly and efficiently manage your travel request process. Here are just a few ways that the Travel Tracker Application can help you and your district!

Ask any teacher, administrator, or district manager and they will inevitably agree school trips cost money and can be a hassle. Often times, after a trip, teachers and schools are left scrambling to process invoices. Of course, App-Garden’s

A quick, cursory Google search about the decline of field trips in today’s education system will return results pointing the blame in a number of directions. Two of these being the excessive paperwork involved and lack of extra time to devote

Field trips offer students the opportunity to apply classroom instruction in a real-world, firsthand environment. Often field trips are geared towards history or art and other areas, such as math, are overlooked. Algebra teachers, how many

The Travel Tracker was developed to alleviate the  burden of Field Trip Management for school districts. From simplified trip request  submissions to the real-time accessibility for managing trip logistics, the Travel Tracker software

The Calendar Feature of the Travel Tracker The App-Garden Travel Tracker field trip software provides an automated, streamlined process for tracking all of your transportation department’s field and athletic trip needs. The Travel Tracker is a

Our customers can tell you all about how the Travel Tracker has changed their field trip management process. We recently spoke with John Seussman, Transportation Director for North Thurston Public Schools.  North Thurston has about 14,500 students

  Our Field trip management software, The Travel Tracker, has made a big difference for Guilford County Schools!

Since the late 90s, students have become increasingly more stressed each year due to rising expectations of colleges and universities.  As reported by The Seattle Times, many schools just like Roosevelt High experienced crisis levels of stress and

The App-Garden works with hundreds of school districts nationwide and we have heard the subject of seat belts on buses being debated many times. While this may at first seem like a no brainer “yes we should” answer, many disagree. Below are

Marci Cox, transportation director at Hopkins County Schools KY, struggled with an inefficient and time consuming field trip process and manual driver bidding process. The process for managing field trips was paper-based and cumbersome, taking a lot

More often than not, a shortage of bus drivers is an ongoing concern for Transportation Departments. When districts are short on bus drivers, transportation directors may have to put in additional hours which can add to their stress. Having to

Field trip integration with GPS When it comes to planning field trips, athletic trips, and school bus routes, managing travel requests can become time consuming and costly. Kim Gates, the Cost Clerk for Lincoln County Schools, North Carolina, had

Parents and teachers alike are always thinking of ways to get their students/children prepared and excited for their future education. Many parents plant the seed in their children starting from a very young age that they are going to attend a

Every other Friday, Marci Cox, transportation director at Hopkins County Schools, KY, had to conduct a field trip driver bidding and trip selection meeting. These meetings lasted for two to three hours on average and were dreadful to sit through,

School trips can be a valuable part of the curriculum for K-12 students. Whether they visit a zoo, a museum, an historic site, or a local business, these trips can allow students to experience first-hand what they might be studying in the classroom.

Transportation directors tell us that paper field trip requests cause them to spend a lot of extra time and energy processing these requests.  Watch this short video to understand why.

We hear many times that a district thinks they are too small to benefit from an automated field trip solution.  Our experience, however, has been that even small districts find the Travel Tracker to be a great fit.  Smaller districts also have fewer

Funding Approval Can Make or Break a Field-Trip, Here’s How The Travel Tracker Can Help! Keeping track of who is paying for various field trips can be time consuming for transportation and sometimes leads to trips that nobody wants to claim when the

School Nurses Play a Huge Role in Your District!

We hear from transportation departments across the country that they receive many phone calls from teachers and coaches wanting to know the estimated cost of a field trip.  Watch this short video telling why an automated trip estimate is important

When large groups of students are out on field trips the cafeteria staff may be making more food than is needed on that particular day if they are not being notified that students are out for the day. You may also find that sometimes students get