SchoolPass

When I need to notify the school last minute for an appointment I can use the School pass quickly and easy at my convenience. School could be closed or not able to contact them due to meetings. It is a quick entry and done!

Nice idea in theory. However, if you have multiple kids, it’s highly likely the app won’t work properly. Despite doing all the recommended things (uninstalling and reinstalling, resetting passwords using a laptop, ensuring passwords are the same for each account, etc) it still won’t allow us to toggle between kids. If you are logged in with one kid and try to toggle to a different kid on the app, it will shut down - Every. Single. Time. The only workaround is to log out of the app each time and then relog in under each child. This of course defeats the purpose of having an app that can send push notifications, which will only work for whatever kid you are logged into at the time. And no - it is NOT user error or a problem with my phone. My spouse has the same problem. Multiple parents at the school have the same issue as well (the school knows this and cannot seem to find a solution to it) and what should be a time saving resource is just another headache.

The app works well enough to get our students’ names onto the dismissal list for staff, however, it could really use two new features. First, where is the CarPlay integration? The app checks a geofence that’s a few minutes away from the school and it would be very nice to have a CarPlay UI to facilitate check-in during those few minutes. That would allow the student to get to the pickup location while the caregiver finishes their drive. Second, our school only uses the “Carline” queue. The other two queues (“Parent waiting area” and “Early pickup”) aren’t used by the school and should be hidden in the UI (which would leave just one button that obviously is no longer needed could … thereby avoiding one UI step/dialog). This would avoid new caregiver confusion.