Red Rover K12

Truly, this app is set up well and not hard to use. One of my biggest frustrations is that when new messages are sent out via the bulletin board, I get a notification sent to my email that is only notifying me that there is a new post, and not the post information directly. Can’t the info just be sent via email? And if not… the next step is frustrating too: when you push the button to “view post” from your email, it takes you to their website, where you have to login. Instead, it would make more sense to push the “view post” button from your email and have it default to take you to the app (where I’m already logged in), NOT the website. Too many extra steps that could just be solved by sending the bulletin board info via email itself. Also, when I am viewing a list of all available assignments, sometimes I click on a particular one to get more information. If I decide not to accept it and want to go back to the list of all available assignments, I swipe right to go back to the screen that I was just on. This seems like the most intuitive thing to do, based on my experience on other apps functionality. However, swiping to the right takes me to the “More” tab. It feels wrong to go “back” to a screen I wasn’t even on.

By the time I see them on my app exactly when it notifies me, they are already gone. And I’m seeing jobs at schools I hid. What’s the point of hiding them? I don’t understand preferences when I see jobs from schools I don’t want to work at. I don’t like this app, I’m not getting jobs. I have hidden schools I don’t want to see jobs from, like all the high schools and junior highs and I still see those jobs, so hiding schools doesn’t work. I worked pretty much every day the last 2 years on their old app, now the jobs are gone before I even tap them so they are NOT hitting everyone’s app at the same time. I hear the notification and can’t tap fast enough. And as filters, those don’t work either. I chose one and it goes back to no filters applied. Preferences says default. I guess that means all schools show, even though you have all schools as a choice. Other districts used the frontline app and I never had problems with it. I could actually choose the schools I’d work at and I then never saw jobs from ones I didn’t want to work at. And I could use Sub Alert that helped me see jobs first before they were gone. Your app is not one they support. I still don’t like your app as I’m used to working and picking the jobs I want. Now I’m not working as I can’t even get a job. I worked the first 3 weeks of school last year and pretty much worked every day in jobs I wanted. I’m a retired teacher.

If you have substituted for years or you just started, this app is user friendly. After being certified to sub at your school district you can choose schools you would like to sub at. If you know the teachers they could add a job for you and if you’re not available for any reason just go to the “Availability” tab and add a non-recurring event. Also, the app lets you choose the days you would like to work. It’s a great way to form relationships with teachers and schools. You can see your substitute schedule in the “Schedule” tab and if for any reason you can’t make it you can cancel the job without entering a reason, though I don’t recommend you cancel unless necessary. If you’re interested in becoming a teacher, substituting is a great way to try and see a classroom setting and you gain experience.