School Dismissal Manager (SDM)

The constant, repeated (sometimes as many as 10) “your session has timed out” prompts that pop up when you open the app is enough to get you started on a bad foot. When another parent creates an exception for you to pick up their child, it does not show up in the “Today’s dismissal” section and only lets you know the other parent did what they need to do correctly once you check-in. If I want to know before hand, I just have to pray that everything is right and whatever god you believe in has it right - cause you sure won’t be able to tell it’s right in the app. Overall, there are multiple confusing sections and options in the parent app which should be pretty simple. SDM needs to work on cleaning up their options and presenting them to the end user better.

This app is OK. Easy to use. Nevertheless it would be great if they could have a button that says "Apply same exception for all children " or select certain children with check boxes to add the same exception. The school makes us add after school clubs as an exception so that's manually entering like 25 or more exceptions x3 kids. If you have more than one kid you'll end up spending a lot of time managing your pickup app!

This app is usually very slick, both as a parent, and as a principal managing dismissal for a school. Since the update, on the parent side, it crashes whenever I select a date to enter an exception. All the best,