"take roll call" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to counting off students in an academic setting to make sure everyone is present. For example, "The teacher asked the student assistant to take roll call at the start of the lecture."
One teacher took roll call of those students who gathered around the damaged school, just as she does daily, although this time it was to determine who had survived and who was still trapped inside.
Among other communication problems, the investigators found, firefighters split up and were unaccounted for at times, a procedure for taking roll call was ineffective, and commanders were unable to use radios to locate disabled firefighters.
Officers took roll call at regular intervals, and no man was allowed to leave the ranks unless he was too unwell to keep up with his company or needed to answer the call of nature, and then for only a few minutes — in which case he was not permitted to take his musket, which was carried by another man, lest he try to desert.
Other phrases from Ferris Bueller's Day Off such as Stein's nasally-voiced "Bueller?...Bueller?...Bueller?" (while taking roll call in class), and "Anyone?
When it rings, a staff member from the Dorot office on the Upper West Side is on the line to link him or her to a conference call and to take roll.
If you take a roll call of some of the great portrait photographers of the 20th century, what you immediately notice is that the element of theatre is often at its best when it is happened upon quite by chance, in the street or down the mine.
I couldn't decide whether he was mortified at the memory of the Goliath whom he slew or whether, decades on, he still felt the secret surge of that power, and I started, like a teacher, to take a roll call of all the kids in his work.
Take a roll call every time someone new enters the chatroom.
Vanessa Engle's numbing film looks at one year, taking a roll call of the 86 women killed by their partners or former partners.
