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What parents can see and do家长能看到什么、能做什么

The family's own view of your academy. Knowing what is in it saves the front desk a lot of phone calls.家庭视角下的你的学院。知道里面有什么,前台可以少接很多电话。

Students & families学生与家庭 Front desk, owner前台、老板 4 min read分钟

这篇指南的正文目前只有英文版。标题、摘要与导览已翻译;内文仍在翻译中。

Parents have their own login, separate from staff, to a portal showing their own children. Most "can you check for me?" questions can be answered by pointing them at it once.

What they see

  • Their children's classes — one card per class, for the child they have selected at the top of the page.
  • Progress — assessments, levels, skills, and the progress updates their instructor wrote, downloadable as a PDF.
  • Packages and balances — what they bought and how many classes are left.
  • Payment history and receipts — every payment, with the receipt to download.
  • Announcements — the news you publish, and academy events.
The parent portal showing a child's classes
The parent portal showing a child's classes

What they can do

  • Book, cancel and arrange replacement classes — within the rules of the package they hold, which is why two families may see different options.
  • Sign the academy's terms and conditions digitally.
  • Register and reset their own password.
  • Save their child's assessment videos from the progress page.
  • Tell you what they think, under Profile — where your academy has parent feedback switched on. See Hear what parents really think.

Two details worth knowing when a parent rings the desk:

  • Seats are counted for the exact date they tapped. The booking screen shows a fortnight, so it holds two of every weekday, and the two Mondays can differ. A day your academy is closed is simply not offered.
  • When a booking or cancellation cannot go through, the screen says why — the class is full, the package has run out — right where they are looking, instead of quietly doing nothing.

What they cannot do

They cannot pay online. Payments are still recorded by staff at the counter or against a bank transfer, so an invoice a parent can see is not an invoice they can settle themselves.

They also cannot see other families, other children, or anything about your staff.

Signing out really signs them out. Tapping sign out ends the session at our end, not just on their phone, so a parent who used somebody else's tablet is not still signed in on it. A portal session lasts thirty days of not being used, and ninety days at the outside, then asks for the password again.

Helping a parent who cannot get in

  • They log in with their email address, not a phone number, and not the same credentials as anything staff use.
  • Their password has to hold up. Parents are held to the same rules as your staff now — at least eight characters, upper and lower case, and none of the obvious ones. A family setting a new password is told exactly what is missing rather than just being refused.
  • If the email on their record is wrong, fix it under Management → Parents — that is the address the portal and every receipt uses.
  • They can reset their own password from the login screen.
One parent record per family. If a family has been entered twice, they will log in and see only some of their children, which looks like a bug and is really a duplicate. Merge the situation by fixing the students' parent, not by creating another login.

Why it is worth pushing

Every question a parent answers themselves is a call your front desk does not take. Progress and receipts are the two things they ask about most, and both are in there.

Related: Write a progress update · Find an invoice or receipt · Publish an announcement to parents.