App Profile: Denver Public Schools

girahn

Rating: 1/5

Where is Dora Moore? We’ve been told to download and use this. Can see messages from the teachers, but can’t see the actual school listed like all the other DPS schools. Update after using this week: still 1 sad star, wish I could give 0. Why did this launch right before school started? It wasn’t even live when the first comms came out. Did you beta test this at all with any parents? Still don’t see my school listed. Launch screen functionality is limited - why is the default feed for DPS? I don’t need or want news about the district, I need to know what my kids’ school principal is posting and what their teachers are sending. I should be able to mark posts as read from this tab. Filtering on Rooms tab is bad: The filter is a whole bottom sheet? Should just be check boxes like regular filters. Don’t need to reinvent the wheel - use standard filtering UI. Archiving impossible - please for the love of inbox management, add an archive or delete function for messages. Spacing and UI feedback: why is there so much space in the carded posts?! Please make the UI denser so we can use it more easily. The tags have no functionality, and why are they at the bottom of the card. Why does one space in a message from a teacher render as two? Typography: why is the type on the Events page huge? Documents tab: is this really for parents? Seems like a dumping ground of docs.

newsfiend123

Rating: 1/5

Signed in ok, but once inside found it to be lacking functionality. Hardly any schools are included yet. Also encountered poor formatting, with text cut off on both sides of the iPhone 12 Pro screen. Feels like this app was rushed so as to be ready for school, which it clearly is not. Needs serious help or will end up being a waste of time and money during a critical budget year. It’s also worth observing that when it comes to school apps in general, our own school front offices typically use no more than about 20% of any given app’s available features. It’s rare for us to see more than one or two teachers per year who use an app at all. Maybe DPS should just stick to email.

Mrbl8

Rating: 1/5

Couldn’t they have at least paid for a template from another school district that has basic functionality that works? Teachers post links, can’t copy them into anything else. Try’s to get you to download google docs app which is already on phone. No web portal to try another way. No way to comment on teacher posts (unless the teachers do something?). School feed is only completely independent of the core DPS news feed so you see motherhood content, but nothing from your actual school without multiple selection changes every time. Very frustrating.