Every task, one minute
One minute each — real screen recordings of a real school, no fluff. Grouped by feature and labeled by who does it: admins, teachers, families, or students. 253 of them, so far.
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253 videos
Gradebook, report cards & transcripts
About this featureEnter grades in a spreadsheet-style grid, post them once, and watch report cards and transcripts assemble themselves — plus the What-If views families use on their side.
- Set up grading categories and drop-lowestTeachers
- Add an assignment to the gradebookTeachers
- Enter grades in the gradebook gridTeachers
- Copy assignments from another classTeachers
- Project a student's grade with What if…?Teachers
- Post term grades for a grading periodTeachers
- Print report cards for the whole class at term endTeachers
- Review class averages, missing work, and trendsTeachers
- Export the gradebook to CSVTeachers
- View a child's grades and assignments for one classFamilies
- Check missing and upcoming assignments in the Needs attention panelFamilies
- View and print a report card or the full transcriptFamilies
- Project a grade with the What if calculatorFamilies
- Check your overall grades and what needs attentionStudents
- See your assignments and grades for one classStudents
- View and print your report card or transcriptStudents
- Project your grade with the What if calculatorStudents
- Excuse a student from an assignmentTeachers
- Fill empty scores for a whole assignmentTeachers
- Import grades from a CSVTeachers
- Link library books to an assignmentTeachers
- Post work habits for the termTeachers
- Print report cards for a whole classAdmins
- Set up subjects for report-card linesAdmins
- Choose how transcripts count creditsAdmins
Standards-based grading & mastery
About this featureTag assignments with standards, rate mastery where the latest evidence wins, and report skills to families — separate from GPA transcripts.
- Set up grade scales and the standards catalogAdmins
- Tag an assignment with standardsTeachers
- Rate students on an assignment's standardsTeachers
- View the class mastery matrixTeachers
- Post term mastery ratings (standards-based class)Teachers
- Review skills and standards mastery for a classFamilies
- See your skills and standards mastery in a classStudents
Lesson planning & Home Days
About this featurePlan the week in a drag-friendly grid, bump what slips, print the sub packet, and share plans with families — including checklist-driven Home Days for hybrid schools.
- Plan a lesson in the week gridTeachers
- Copy last week's lessons into this weekTeachers
- Bump a lesson to the next class meetingTeachers
- Plan a home day with a family checklistTeachers
- Publish the week's plans to familiesTeachers
- Work through the This Week home checklistFamilies
- Bump a whole day forward when the schedule blows upTeachers
- Lock a lesson to its dateTeachers
- Save a lesson as a template and reuse itTeachers
- Map units in the Year at a glance viewTeachers
- Write the class runbook for a substituteTeachers
- Tag standards and library books on a lessonTeachers
- Check standards coverage and find the gapsTeachers
- Differentiate one lesson for a multi-age classTeachers
- Create a gradebook assignment from inside a lessonTeachers
- Discuss a lesson in commentsTeachers
- Print a week of lesson plansTeachers
- Print the sub packet for a sick dayTeachers
- Choose what families see from your lesson plansTeachers
- Share lesson plans with a read-only linkTeachers
- Set up Home Days for a hybrid scheduleAdmins
- Attach files and photo moments to a lessonTeachers
- See how home days went on the dashboardTeachers
- Flag a home-day struggle for the teacherFamilies
- Check off your work in This WeekStudents
- Flag a task you're stuck on for your teacherStudents
- See what your child is learning this weekFamilies
- See what you're learning this week and notes from schoolStudents
- Print this week's home plansFamilies
- Print your week as a take-along checklistStudents
- Set the lesson plan sections teachers fill inAdmins
- Lay out a year of units and pacingAdmins
- Split This Week into a sheet per childFamilies
Admissions, enrollment & re-enrollment
About this featureA public application form that feeds a checkpoint pipeline, interviews with named interviewers, one-click enrollment, and spring re-enrollment that chases its own responses.
- Set up the public online application formAdmins
- Apply to a school through the public application formFamilies
- Add an applicant and enroll them as a studentAdmins
- Import applicants from CSVAdmins
- Schedule an applicant interview and assign interviewersAdmins
- Open re-enrollment and chase responsesAdmins
- Confirm your child is returning next yearFamilies
- Let the school know your child is not returningFamilies
- Convert an accepted applicant into a studentAdmins
- Add questions to your application formAdmins
- Put your application form on your own websiteAdmins
- Collect interest inquiries from families not ready to applyAdmins
- Ask a school for informationFamilies
- Charge an application and registration feeAdmins
Attendance, schedule & calendar
About this featureA tap per kid on attendance, bell periods and breaks behind the schedule, and one school calendar every family and student sees in their portal.
- Take attendance for a classTeachers
- Set up periods, breaks, and rotation daysAdmins
- Add a school event or closure to the calendarAdmins
- Check a child's attendance historyFamilies
- Check the family calendarFamilies
- Check your attendance history and calendarStudents
- Check your calendar for due dates and today's scheduleStudents
- Put a class on the timetable with time slots and a roomAdmins
- Set your class's weekly meeting timesTeachers
- Cancel or move a single class meetingAdmins
- Switch to a block rotation (A/B day) scheduleAdmins
- Set a teacher's availability and daily class capAdmins
- See today's schedule for your familyFamilies
- See today's class scheduleStudents
- Open a day on the calendar and work from itAdmins
- Work the Needs you today listAdmins
Health, behavior & safety
About this featureAllergies that badge the student everywhere, medication logs, printable emergency cards, behavior notes families actually read, and a handbook ladder every adult follows the same way.
- Record allergies, conditions, and emergency infoAdmins
- Record immunization doses and exemptionsAdmins
- Add a medication order and log dosesAdmins
- Log a health office visit or injuryAdmins
- Print field-trip emergency cards for a classAdmins
- Run annual health confirmationsAdmins
- Complete the annual health information confirmationFamilies
- Send a correction to your child's health recordFamilies
- Log a behavior incidentAdmins
- Log a positive behavior note and share it with the familyAdmins
- Review and lock a behavior entryAdmins
- Read behavior notes shared by the schoolFamilies
- Print emergency cards for your classTeachers
- Log a classroom observation on a childTeachers
- Share or unshare an observation with the familyTeachers
- Attach an exemption letter or health formAdmins
- Bulk-import health records from a spreadsheetAdmins
- Use your state's suggested vaccine checklistAdmins
- Set your behavior handbook ladder and incident vocabularyAdmins
Volunteers & service hours
About this featurePost the jobs a term actually needs, let families claim a spot or answer a direct request, keep fingerprint clearances current, and hand the board an hours report at year end.
- Set up volunteer teams and positionsAdmins
- Staff a volunteer event and send the requestsAdmins
- Answer a request to serveFamilies
- Claim an open volunteer spotFamilies
- Add a volunteer and run check-inAdmins
- Track fingerprint clearances before they expireAdmins
- Create a volunteer event that repeatsAdmins
- Copy a volunteer event to new datesAdmins
- Choose how volunteers sign upAdmins
- Block out days you can't volunteerFamilies
- Export volunteer hoursAdmins
Tuition & billing
About this featurePut each family on a plan, run billing once a month, and let Stripe and automatic reminders do the collecting — families pay right in the portal.
- Create a tuition plan and add studentsAdmins
- Connect Stripe for online tuition paymentsAdmins
- Run this month's billingAdmins
- Record a payment on an invoiceAdmins
- Send a payment reminder or void an invoiceAdmins
- Pay a tuition invoice onlineFamilies
- Build your fee catalog with reusable fee typesAdmins
- Assess a fee to a class, grade, or group of studentsAdmins
- Waive a student's fee or cancel a fee batchAdmins
- Create a one-time invoiceAdmins
- Put a student on a tuition planAdmins
- Export invoices and payments for your bookkeeperAdmins
- Check your balance and payment historyFamilies
- Bill tuition weekly, biweekly, quarterly, or half-yearlyAdmins
- Split an annual plan into monthly installmentsAdmins
- Choose how long a tuition plan bills forAdmins
- Set up automatic tuition paymentsFamilies
- Pay tuition with your ESA or voucherFamilies
- Download your year-end family statementFamilies
Financial aid, scholarships & ESA
About this featureSet the year's aid budget, take applications in the portal, decide them against a sliding scale, and let every award land on the invoice by itself — plus the ESA and scholarship paperwork states keep asking for.
- Set your financial aid budget for the yearAdmins
- Open financial aid applications to familiesAdmins
- Apply for financial aidFamilies
- Review a family's aid application and decideAdmins
- Award a scholarship or discount to a studentAdmins
- Check your financial aid decisionFamilies
- Set up a sliding scale of income bandsAdmins
- Turn on the automatic sibling discountAdmins
- Renew or end an expiring aid awardAdmins
- Set your ESA vendor name so families can find youAdmins
- Send an ESA invoice and record the paymentAdmins
- Reconcile ESA settlements from a CSVAdmins
- Produce the ESA and scholarship verification packAdmins
- Credit a scholarship upfront and bill the family the differenceAdmins
- Match a program deposit to the right student and invoiceAdmins
- Reconcile ClassWallet payments from the vendor reportAdmins
- Track what the scholarship program still owes youAdmins
- Export the ESA tuition worksheetAdmins
- Work through the ESA compliance checklistAdmins
- Print the tuition and fees disclosureAdmins
- Build the AUP evidence pack for your auditorAdmins
- Run Texas TEFA complianceAdmins
- Run Iowa Students First ESA complianceAdmins
- Run Louisiana LA GATOR complianceAdmins
- Run Florida FES & Step Up scholarship complianceAdmins
- Run Arizona ESA & ClassWallet complianceAdmins
- Run Utah Fits All Scholarship complianceAdmins
Library, resources & reservations
About this featureBarcode labels you print yourself, a scan station for checkout, holds families place from home, shared equipment reserved with dates instead of arguments — and the textbooks, shelf counts, and supply cupboard that come with all of it.
- Add a book and print barcode labelsAdmins
- Check library books out and inAdmins
- Review checkout history and chase overdue booksAdmins
- Manage the hold queue on a library bookAdmins
- Track a school resourceAdmins
- Reserve library books and school resources for your classroomTeachers
- Place a hold on a library bookFamilies
- Reserve school equipment or a resource for specific datesFamilies
- Cancel a book hold or resource reservationFamilies
- Place a hold on a library bookStudents
- Reserve a school resource for specific datesStudents
- Cancel a book hold or resource reservationStudents
- Print barcode labels for books and resourcesAdmins
- Book a resource out to a student and log its returnAdmins
- Check your child's library books and due datesFamilies
- See which library books you have out and when they're dueStudents
- Build the textbook catalog and assign titles to classesAdmins
- Issue a class set of textbooksAdmins
- Collect a class set of textbooks at term endAdmins
- Print textbook slips for a class or the whole schoolAdmins
- Set loan lengths, renewals, and overdue finesAdmins
- Renew a loan or charge an overdue fineAdmins
- Scan a student's ID card and check out a whole stackAdmins
- Count a shelf without shutting the libraryAdmins
- Finish a count and reconcile what's missingAdmins
- Track a consumable and set its reorder pointAdmins
- Record stock used, received, or counted on the shelfAdmins
- Reorder a consumable that's running lowAdmins
Messages & announcements
One compose reaches every family's portal inbox — plus teacher-to-family threads and an oversight search so leadership can stand behind every message.
- Send a school-wide announcement to all students or all teachersAdmins
- Send a message to a class, student, or colleagueTeachers
- Investigate messages with oversight searchAdmins
- Read messages from the school and teachersFamilies
- Message several classes at onceAdmins
- Turn on the weekly family digestAdmins
- Read messages from your school and teachersStudents
Family & student portals
About this featureOne login per family: every child's grades, attendance, this week's plans, library books, and invoices — and a student portal that answers "what do I owe and when."
- Set up your parent portal account from the school's invitationFamilies
- Open a child's full record from the portal homeFamilies
- Switch between siblings with the child switcherFamilies
- Find and contact a child's teacherFamilies
- Set up your student portal accountStudents
- Look up your teacher's contact info and class timesStudents
- See classroom observations shared by the teacherFamilies
- Read notes and observations your teachers sharedStudents
The family app on a phone
About this featureThe same portal, installed to a parent's home screen straight from the browser — no app store — with push notifications for the messages, grades, and absences that can't wait for email.
Student records & compliance
About this featureAdd or import students, print a complete records packet when a family transfers, bring years of academic history in from CSV, and audit every change in the activity log.
- Add a student and their guardianAdmins
- Import students from CSVAdmins
- Import past academic history from CSVAdmins
- Print a report card, transcript, or records packetAdmins
- Withdraw a student (and reactivate them later)Admins
- Review the activity logAdmins
- Add a guardian and set the billing contactAdmins
- Print a student's transcriptAdmins
- Reactivate a withdrawn studentAdmins
- Download a compliance extractAdmins
- Audit who has opened a student's recordAdmins
- Add a student photo for their ID cardAdmins
- Issue ID numbers to every studentAdmins
- Design your student ID cardAdmins
- Print student ID cardsAdmins
School setup & the year cycle
Configure the school once — branding, years and terms, classes, staff, roles — then let the June rollover wizard carry it all into the new year.
- Configure school profile, grade ladder, and required immunizationsAdmins
- Upload your school logo and set brand colorsAdmins
- Add an academic year and grading termsAdmins
- Create a classAdmins
- Enroll a student in an existing class (and remove one from the roster)Admins
- Add a teacher profileAdmins
- Update your teacher profileTeachers
- Create a custom roleAdmins
- Add a staff user and scope their accessAdmins
- Run the year-end rollover wizardAdmins
- Add a second campusAdmins
- Rename grade levels to match your programAdmins
- Choose your school type and switch modules on or offAdmins
- Set up work habits & conduct for report cardsAdmins
- Assign a class to a teacher, co-teacher, or assistantAdmins
- Add a staff user and choose their roleAdmins
- Customize one user's access with an overrideAdmins
- Give a staff member access to one student's recordAdmins
- Run an access review — who can see whatAdmins
- Deactivate a staff account without deleting itAdmins
- Set one class to cover several subjectsAdmins
- Set your school's time zoneAdmins
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