Setting up your school

The setup wizard takes you in five steps to a school that is ready to start. After registering you land there directly; later you find it in the administration. It is open to the head of school, administration and admin. The step titles are currently shown in German.

The five steps

  1. School: name, short name, logo, colours and contact. The «Preview» next to it shows how your school appears to parents. Under «For parents» you choose whether the time at the end of an event is called «Pick-up» or «Dismissal», and whether the family list shows the children's date of birth (default: no; all families see the list).
  2. Levels and classes: choose a template and tap «Use template». Then adjust the levels. Each class level belongs to exactly one level. If children are already recorded, levels can only be changed one at a time.
  3. School year: choose your canton's «Holiday template» and tap «Insert dates from template». Check «First school day», «Last school day», «Structure» and the holidays. «Enter the canton's public holidays as school-free days» adds the public holidays.
  4. Families: take over families and children from an Excel list, see Importing families.
  5. Info pages: ten templates for the most important information for parents. Choose the ones you want and tap «Create selected pages».

Pausing and continuing

The main button saves and moves on to the next step. «Continue later» takes you to the overview; whatever is saved stays. There each step shows «done» or «open», and a button leads to the next open step. You can put off the family import with «Skip this step».

When everything is done, the overview says «Setup is complete.» Each step can still be opened and changed afterwards, from the step bar at the top or in the administration.

Finishing the info pages

The info pages are created as drafts. Whatever only your school knows is in square brackets, for example [UNTERRICHTSBEGINN]. Replace all brackets in the editorial area before you publish a page. More in Editing info pages.

Daycare or nursery

When registering or in step 1, choose "Daycare or nursery" under "Type of institution". Levels are then called "groups" (template: babies, toddlers, kindergarten age), step 3 becomes "care year" and is optional, and you enter closure days instead of holidays. There is no class change in August: families join at any time, and if a child changes group, you change it in the administration on the child's record. There are dedicated info page templates, for example on settling in.