Each child you add has a set of pages of their own. To reach them, open Readers and choose your child. A row of tabs across the top takes you between "Overview", "Activity", "Progress", "Books", "Safety" and "Settings", and the name at the top lets you switch to another reader without going back.
Under your child's name you can see their age group, how they sign in, when they last read, and a note if they are locked out after too many wrong tries. "Edit profile" takes you straight to their profile, and the "Start" button with their name, such as "Start Mia reading", opens their sign-in on the device you are holding.
The six tabs
| Tab | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Overview | Anything that needs you, the last seven days in counts, recent activity and their latest books |
| Activity | Everything that happened, newest first, with filters for reading, books, safety, stickers and checks |
| Progress | Minutes, books finished, the reading level, the just-right check, age group moves, what they like and their stickers |
| Books | Every book they made, newest first, with "Look over it", printing, recording your voice, having a chapter book read aloud and asking us to look again, plus series and drawn heroes |
| Safety | What you were told about, what they did in the shared library, and the controls that keep them safe |
| Settings | Who they are, how their books read, sound and look, and removing them |
Following your child's progress goes through the Overview, Activity and Progress tabs in detail.
On the Books tab, "Look over it" appears beside a book that is ready, put away or waiting for you. It opens that book's own page, where you can put the book away or bring it back, change its words, draw a picture again or tell us something is wrong; Looking over a finished book explains each button.
The Settings tab
The first four cards each have their own "Save" button, and saving one does not change the others.
- Profile. First name, their picture, the month of their birthday (optional), and "When they turn thirteen". See When your child turns thirteen.
- Reading. Their age group, "Stories are written in", "Words on the page", and for ages 5 to 7, "Which phonics phase are they on?". See The languages stories are written in and Reading level and phonics.
- Listening and Pip. "Voice for read-along", "Books that can play in a row" and "Let Pip speak". See Pip's voice, Listening to books in a row and Recording your own voice for a book.
- How it looks. Typeface, text size, colors and less movement. See How the page looks.
- Pip's welcome. Says whether your child has answered Pip's first questions, and offers "Show the welcome again" so that Pip asks the next time they sign in. Nothing they picked before is lost.
- Remove (their name). Takes the reader out of your account. See Removing a reader.
The Safety tab
- What you were told about. Anything your child wrote that was worth a grown-up knowing, in their own words, with what Pip did about it. See Safety alerts.
- In the shared library. Books they offered to the library, anything they reported, and books you asked us to look at again.
- What stories can include. "Never include" topics and "Allow silly toilet jokes". See Topics to leave out of stories.
- Time and bedtime. A daily limit, a bedtime and "Stop reading aloud after". See Time limits and bedtime.
- How they sign in. Changing their PIN or pictures, lifting a lock and signing them out everywhere. See PINs and picture passwords.
- Learning what they enjoy. The "Learn what they enjoy" switch, off unless you turn it on. See What your child likes.
- Library and other readers. Whether they share books to the library, and their made-up reader name.
Comments, hearts that count and the weekly board are not open yet, so the "Comments" and "Weekly board" switches on this card do nothing for now.
If you cannot find a setting, ask us from Help in your dashboard.