Schools and classrooms
Classes, sign-in cards, books with questions, school plans, and linking a child at home.
12 articles
In the order most people need them
- TaleTykes for schools
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.
- School plans compared
What the Free, Classroom and School plans include, what counts as a new book, and how school prices work.
- Starting a class and adding students
How a teacher sets up their school, accepts the school agreement, starts a class and adds students by first name and last initial.
- Sign-in cards and classroom devices
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.
- Setting a book with questions
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.
- The class board
What the optional weekly class board shows, who is left off it, how to switch it on, and when it starts again.
- Safety alerts for a class
How safety alerts about students reach a class's teachers and the school's safety lead, where to read them, and what to do.
- Running a school account
The school admin pages, inviting teachers and admins, seats, the safety lead, and closing a school.
- Paying for a school plan
How a school admin pays for Classroom by card and the School plan by card or invoice, what happens when an invoice is late, and what to ask us to change.
- Linking your child to their class
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.
- What schools keep about students
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.
- The end of the school year
How to archive one class or every class, what happens to students and their books, and how to get ready for next year.
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