Parents

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Contents 1 Parental Engagement 1.1 What are parent accounts used for 1.2 Manually creating a parent account 1.3 Bulk creating Parent accounts 1.4 Manually adding a child to a parent account 1.5 Parent Usage 1.5.1 Parental Homepage 1.5.2 Linking direct to areas of a child's portal 1.6 Emailing parents 1.7 Reporting inappropriate content

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Parental Engagement

What are parent accounts used for

Parental engagement allows a parent to log into DB Primary and look at what their children have been doing in school. This will allow a parent to look in various places within the childs account and also flag anything of concern to a teacher within the school. The following features are available to a parent.

• Parents with multiple children at the same school will only need one login and will be able to choose which child's portal they want to look at.
• Parents will be able to view their child's "My Work" area and the documents contained in it.
• If enabled by the school, the parent will be able to read the child's email.
• Access to their child's Blogs.
• Comment on their child's blogs.
• Access to their childs Calendar.
• Report inappropriate content.
• Parents can be added to a community

Manually creating a parent account

Click the link above for instructions on how to create a single parent account.

Bulk creating Parent accounts

Click above for instruction on how to bulk create parent accounts and link their children to them.

Manually adding a child to a parent account

You may manually add or remove a child to an existing parent account by doing the following.

1. Log in to the school with an Admin or Staff account.
2. Click on Administration.
3. Ensure the Accounts tab is selected.
4. Click on the + on the Parental Accounts folder.

5. Find the account you want to edit and click on the Edit button to the right.
6. Now click on the Linked Pupils as shown below.



Pupils with a similar surname to the parent will be suggested first and the rest of the pupil folders will display below.

7. To add pupils, tick the tick box on the left and then click on the Link button in the middle to associate the children with the parent account.
8. To remove children from a parent account, tick the tick box on the right hand side and then click Unlink in the middle to remove them from the parent account.

Parent Usage

Parental Homepage

Parents log into the school in the exact same way as a member of staff or a pupil by going to the school web address and entering their username and password.

Once logged in, the parent will get their own parental homepage.

The parental page is split into 3 columns as follows:

Left

The left hand column will display and children who have been linked to the parent. Clicking on one of these will display the childs details in the middle panel.

Middle

The middle panel will pull through information from the selected child. This will be blogs and the my work folder.

Right

The right hand column is information relating to the logged in parent.

- Parents can upload a picture by clicking on the cogs on the bottom right of the photo placeholder.
- The calendar is unique to the parent and will pull through any appointments from communities they may be a member of.
- Communities, this will list any communities the parent belongs to.
- The what's on will be specific information relating to the parent.

Blog Entries

A list of blog entries can be viewed from the selected childs account, click onto to expand or collapse the entry. A parent is able to comment on an existing blog however they cannot create a new blog in their childs account.

Linking direct to areas of a child's portal

There are 5 links on the childs details on the left hand side (4 if email has not been disabled for parent view). Each one of the links will take you direct to the corresponding areas of the childs portal. Clicking on the main picture will visit the childs homepage.

Links on a Starter themed child

My Work This link will take you to the child's "My Work" area.
Calendar This will take you to the child's calendar.
Blog This will take you to the child's blog and allow the parent to comment on it.
Email This will take you to the child's email If it has been enabled by the school.

Links on a Improver themed child

My Work This link will take you to the child's "My Work" area.
Calendar This will take you to the child's calendar.
Blog This will take you to the child's blog and allow the parent to comment on it.
Email This will take you to the child's email If it has been enabled by the school.

Emailing parents

Parent accounts are not created with a DB Primary email address. If you wish to keep in contact with parents by email their personal email addresses will need to be entered into the platform.
This can be done manually when creating single accounts as shown below:

Emails can also be added by an administrator when creating accounts in bulk with a csv spreadsheet. See the parent account creation section for details.

Note: when a parent first logs in to the account, if an email has not yet been set, the parent is required to enter a personal email in order to access their account. Thus all parent accounts that have been accessed will have an associated email:

If you wanted to email a group of parents associated with a class, please use the following steps:

• In the email view click on 'Create Email'
• Place your cursor in the 'To' field and click on 'Addresses'
• Click the drop-down that appears on the right of the dialogue that appears.
• If any of your pupils in a community have been linked to a parent, you will have the option to email the parents of those children too, as shown below:

Reporting inappropriate content

If a parent finds any content they believe is inappropriate, they can report this to a nominated "Whistle Monitor" at the school by clicking on the Whistle icon.

This will email the details to a nominated member of staff with an optional message from the parent.