Schools and classrooms

What the school side of TaleTykes is, who agrees for the students, how a teacher gets a class reading, and what is different for students.

What the Classroom and School plans include, what counts as a new book, how school prices work, and what a school with no plan can do.

How a teacher sets up their school, accepts the school agreement, chooses a plan, starts a class and adds students by first name and last initial.

How to set up a classroom device, how students sign in on it with pictures or a PIN, how to print sign-in cards, and how students share one device.

How to set a book for a class or some of its students, add your own questions, what students see, and how to read and mark their answers.

How to read a class book before you set it, show it to the class on a board or projector, and print it, without any of it counting as a student's reading.

What the optional weekly class board shows, who is left off it, how to switch it on, and when it starts again.

How safety alerts about students reach a class's teachers and the school's safety lead, where to read them, and what to do.

The school admin pages, inviting teachers and admins, seats, the safety lead, and closing a school.

How a school admin pays by card or invoice, gets a quote and our W-9 for a purchasing office, sends a tax exemption certificate, and what happens when an invoice is late.

How a school admin connects OneRoster, ClassLink or Clever so students are added and taken out as the district's records change, and what is kept.

How new children can ask to join your class on its own device, how you say yes or no, and how they get their pictures or PIN.

How a parent links their own account to their child's class, what you will and will not see, reading at home, and how to unlink.

How to send each child home with a letter that lets their grown-ups link themselves, what stops the wrong person linking, and how to end a code or a link.

How a teacher connects their own Google Classroom so the classes they lead stay in step, and how to share an assignment to Classroom.

What TaleTykes keeps about a school's students, who can see it, how long it is kept, and how the school answers requests from parents.

What a district admin sees and does, how the district's rules sit above each school's, one bill for several schools, and class lists connected once.

How to archive one class or every class, what happens to students and their books, and how to get ready for next year.

The approximate A to Z band on each English book for teachers, how it is worked out, where it shows, and why it describes the book and is no publisher's official level.

How to set a lesson on one sound to a reading group, read the weekly teaching report, take a running record, and see where our sequence maps to in your phonics program.

Setting one student's typeface, text size, colors, less movement and Pip's voice, and where those choices follow them.

How to show a class's reading for the dates of a term, print one student's summary for a parents' evening, and download progress or assignment results.

How to print a lesson pack for a UFLI Foundations lesson, show it on a board, send the class code home with it, and keep the small groups we suggest by the sound each child needs next.

How to put several assignments in order over the weeks of a unit, choose the day each one opens, and read the Common Core codes shown beside groups and books.

How a teacher or admin who belongs to several schools chooses which one the teacher and admin pages show.

How to set a class reading goal for a term in minutes or books, what the class sees on its home screen, and why there is nothing for any one child.