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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