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Designed with parents, for parents – FirstView®, powered by First Student, makes you a part of your student’s journey. To school. From school. Every day.

FirstView® is your resource for knowing the location of your student’s bus, estimated arrival times at your student’s stop and when your student’s bus arrives or departs their school. FirstView® is a partnership between First Student and the school districts we serve, bringing increased transparency and communication about the school bus for students and their families. Currently, FirstView® is only available to a small number of school districts but we are working hard to offer it to as many districts as possible! Please contact your school district or our FirstView® support team if you would like to know if FirstView® is available for you.

Dedicated Customer Support
• Contact FirstView® Monday – Friday by:
- Calling the toll-free phone number 888-889-8920 from 7:00 a.m. EST to 5:00 p.m. EST;
- Emailing Customer Support at [email protected]; or
- Using the in-app messaging to provide feedback.

Live Tracking
• The FirstView® map screen shows you the live location and direction of your student’s bus, your student's stop schedule for the current day and timestamps for school arrivals and departures.

Predictive Stop Arrival Times
• Analyzing route and real-time GPS data, we determine an estimated time of arrival to your stop provided on the FirstView® map.

Custom Alerts and Messages
• Set up push or email notifications alerting you when your student's bus is a chosen distance or number of minutes away from your stop.
• Receive push messages about why your student’s bus is late and an estimation of how long it will be delayed.

Multi-Stop View
• Buses for all your students can be tracked with FirstView®. Using individual colors for each student, every selected stop appears on the map simultaneously for easy viewing and differentiation.

Additional User Notifications
• The main user of the FirstView® app can connect three additional email accounts to receive email alerts.

Secure and Easy Access
• FirstView® requires a password-protected account along with your student’s ID for app set-up. This way, only you can view your student’s stop.
• Register and log-in from your smartphone, tablet or desktop.
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User Rating

4.32 out of 5

9,709 ratings in United States

5 star
7,100
4 star
826
3 star
499
2 star
327
1 star
957

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App doesn’t work all the time

Tee Monèt on

This app could be more helpful if it was more accurate and actually tracking the buses. I have no idea why the app only works like one time a week maybe but in order for me to monitor when my child gets to school and get home from school I need this app to WORK! Fix it please and thank you.

Never works when I need it

Abbymygail on

Never works when I need it

Glitching

Mar90888 on

App always glitches

Wrong notifications

CityCutThat on

The route only notifies you the first time that the bus passes by your location you picked. So I get a notification 40 minutes BEFORE the bus gets anywhere near picking my kids up because we are so close to where the route starts. Fix this.

Do I have to say much…

Shark boy 72006 on

The app maybe works like 15% of the time and is honestly just a really bad app that never works. The button that shows it to refresh is just gone now. The accuracy is just well quite frankly terrible. I obviously understand it’s not going to be 100% accurate but, there are sometimes it’s not even close to being accurate as it never updates live as to where the bus currently is.

Great “tool” to estimate when the bus will arrive

Tammie222 on

Update 4-10-24 App has not worked for a week. Don’t rely on it! Changing my review of the app…. I loved this app and would have given 10 stars. I still think it is a great app. I have had issues this year and the support help wasn’t responding or would respond in another language of characters. After 3 attempts to reach support I left my experience here and the next day the app worked perfect! Maybe coincidence, I don’t know. It has worked perfect since and I am thankful. I’m not sure if there is an issue with emails all around but I have seen issues elsewhere so I am forgiving FirstView. I realize that school is just getting back and there is a shortage of everything these days so I wanted to come back and change my review of the app. If you can get the app to work properly, and you understand that sometimes busses break down or drivers call in sick etc. and don’t expect it to be 100% perfect all of the time, you will absolutely love this app! I honestly never want to be without it and would be very disappointed if it was taken away. Even though I can track my sons bus, we open the door and watch for 10 minutes before the bus shows that it is in our area. It is a great tool but life happens. We have to use technology as a tool and not a definite. It is also worth noting, the support desk has reached out to me and is looking into the other language issue that I had. Thankfully I still had a screenshot. I deleted the email right away because I didn’t know if it was contagious! Lol. Download the app, get it set up properly, enjoy the benefits of having “an idea” when the bus will be there.

Map not showing

Cup Mma Effa on

I realized I can not navigate the app, can not view the map too.

Buggy

Ant123456789-;()$(:) on

As a parent it was nice to know our sons school provided a tool to easily locate him to know when he would arrive home. However, this app is extremely buggy and I usually have to open and close the app several times to view the map. I also don’t receive notifications all the time as to when he enters the geo fence to alert me he’s almost at his stop. Hoping with time and patience this app can be fixed and work everytime I open it….the first time I open it lol

Not to good

Wabbit10 on

This app should track the bus at pick up from home to school. Not just from school to home. It would be very helpful, especially in winter season when children are sometimes waiting up to 15 minutes outside in the cold.

Completely worthless app

SLK1018 on

If I could give zero stars, I would. The AirTag in my kid’s backpack provides better, more accurate tracking than this worthless app. Tracking only works if your kid is on their designated bus with their designated driver. Combined route? No tracking. Sub driver? No tracking. Late bus? No tracking. Kids in our district swipe an ID card to get on/off so why can’t the app track based on that? It would eliminate the 50 different schedules I have to set up to ensure we can track every late start, half day, early release, normal start time, normal end time. Absolutely worthless app. My kid could design a better one.

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App Info

Category
Education
Languages
English
Recent version
2.10.2 (4 months ago )
Released on
Feb 7, 2017 (7 years ago )
Last updated
1 month ago