Teaching Strategies Family

It’s appalling that this app does not allow users with a gmail email to create a separate account to login. Instead, it forces the users to login in through the Google portal. I guess I will be missing important updates from the teacher. Update: I did contact your support team prior to making the review. The support team informed me that I either have to change my email address to something that is not gmail, or I would have to log in using my gmail password. Using my gmail password is not acceptable.

Pretty sure this app has been hacked. Just got 20 emails with the same message within 3 minutes. Then the link says it doesn’t recognize my email - which isn’t even my email.

If I could give this app no stars I would. We use it only because the school chose it so there’s no other option. For starters, why is the home page cluttered like a social media app? Why is it suggesting games, videos, and giving me parenting tips? I don’t care. Then, why is there a whole library of low quality e books that you can barely see (if they even open)? Come on dev team, get real. Nobody is using those. Then, why is every daily report, photo, and school memo all lumped into one “memories” section only sorted by chronological order? I mean good grief at the very least separate out the useful information. The reports are the only reason any parent uses an app like this but to find them you have to comb through all the nonsense. I don’t even bother with the app unless I have to send a message to the teachers, otherwise the reports get emailed to me and I just see them there.

This is the worst! Why to have an app when you than need a computer to go on the website to be able to see important things like “report card”. I don’t even know why in the world my daughter’s teacher uses this 🤦‍♀️

Reports take hours to post, layout is disorganized and not specific to my child at all. Reeks of corporate marketing as opposed to reporting and monitoring of my child’s day and what they’re actually being educated on. Disappointed my child’s school has switched to this app.

Teachers are having problems with glitches and difficulty adding in comments and photos compared to the previous system we used. The app is flooded with pics and vids of other messages and basically junk. I’d they want to post it for the few parents who want enrichment ideas then make it a separate tab that doesn’t block the space I want to use to see and read about my kid during the day. The audio for videos doesn’t work in the app. I can only play it through the video on my email. I can’t easily download videos. I have to go through the emails instead. I can’t comment on specific pics or vids. I don’t get notifications for when a teacher or director messages me back. My settings are set to allow all notifications. The end of day report has a daily schedule listed with a morning activity recommendation, how is that useful if I get it at night time? I’ve only been using this app for a month and dreading the change due to the poor reviews. The school must have gotten a sweet money deal to make the decision to switch over from a highly rated app to this sad one. Shameful

I don’t want to scroll through junk videos from the app to get to the pictures and reports of my children. I love pictures of my kids, not the random videos that aren’t my kids. I can “favorite” this junk content, but I can’t “favorite” pictures of my kids to see them in the favorites tab. Why are you pushing your content so much? Daily reports are formatted so poorly that I see lines of code mixed in the daily report. Why can’t I see pictures as the teachers upload them? Why can’t I see when my child was checked in and out? Why are the pictures of students from the current day/week/month not on the first page? Seeing what our kids did during the day is one of the primary benefits to a digital daily report. It shouldn’t be so hard to see this!

Frustrating that you can ‘only’ log in with SSO when it sees your email. Seriously - have the option not to. As a developer it’s not that hard - I’d be happy to help you code it! The app is unusable until you fix it - very disappointed.

School just switched to this app. No way to create an account without Google SSO. Unusable

I used my Apple ID to log in and it defaulted to hiding my email. Because of that, the app can’t recognize which child is mine and it is useless. I don’t know how to reset that choice and I can’t seem to log in easily with google or just email password combo either. Too frustrating. I give up after multiple tries