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Acceptable use policy at sign-in 6 min read School settings → Acceptable use policy lets you show your school's acceptable use policy (an e-safety or online safety agreement, say) to members when they sign in through SmartLogin. They read it, choose I accept, and... Add and manage your school's own apps 5 min read The Apps page lists every tile on your school's Launchpad and panel: the shared apps Realsmart provides (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Beacon and so on) and any tiles your school has added itself. This guide covers yo... Choose who counts as teaching staff (teaching and non-teaching staff groups) 3 min read Every member of staff who comes from your MIS is either teaching staff or non-teaching staff. That one setting decides: which of the two staff groups they're in — teaching-staff or non-teaching-staff (with your school's... Choose who sees each app on your school's panel 3 min read Select Apps in the sidebar (under Platforms), then the All apps tab. (Apps opens on the tab you used last.) The Visible to column has one toggle per account type, then a star: A — Admins M — Staff L — Learners G — Govern... Classwork in Smart Parents 7 min read When it's on, parents linked to a child in Smart Parents see a Classwork card for that child, with three lists: Due this week — work due in the next 7 days that hasn't been handed in; Missing — work past its due date, no... Cover access (co-teachers for a set time) 12 min read When a teacher is away, Cover access makes a colleague a co-teacher of the absent teacher's Google Classroom classes for a set time. In the sidebar it's under Engagement (some messages in Realsmart still call it Classroo... Every Smart Parents feature, and how to switch it on 6 min read Smart Parents is the app parents use to keep up with their child's school, and that staff use in teacher mode. Most features are off until your school turns them on. The first section says what each feature does; the sec... Find your way around — the sidebar and top bar 6 min read ADAdmin has a top bar across every page and a sidebar down the left. The sidebar only lists pages you're allowed to use, and some only appear when a feature is switched on for your school. If an item you expect isn't the... Launchpad notices 6 min read A notice is a banner at the top of the launchpad: a title, an optional message and link, for the people you choose, from its start until its end. Use it for closures, trips, reminders and anything else everyone needs to... Let people choose their Launchpad widgets 4 min read Once your school's launchpad widgets are set up — Google Classroom, Calendar and Gmail or Microsoft 365 — you choose, for each widget, whether people can hide it or add it for themselves. Before you start You need to be... Moderate comments on parent notices 3 min read When a teacher sends a notice from teacher mode in the Smart Parents app, they can let parents comment on it — to ask a question about parents' evening, say. Everyone the notice reached sees the comments, with each paren... Order the apps on your school's panel 3 min read The Apps page (in the sidebar under Platforms) has three tabs. All apps is where you add apps and choose who sees them. Ordering is where you choose the order the tiles appear in on your users' panels. Personal layouts i... Parent notices list and delivery numbers 4 min read Open Smart Parents → Notifications in the sidebar (or the Notifications tab on the Smart Parents page) to see every parent notice at your school and how it's doing. You need to be an admin who holds Manage Smart Parents.... Photo consent for the School Story 3 min read The School Story is the feed of photos and news in the Smart Parents app. A pupil can only appear in its photos when consent allows it. This page shows where every pupil stands, and lets you record what the school's own... School details: name, logo, favicon and contact settings 5 min read School settings → Details holds your school's name, its logo, the icon for its Realsmart website, and who to contact at the school. This page explains each field. Before you start You must be an admin with the Change sch... Send website news, events and alerts to the Smart Parents app 5 min read Your school website can send three things to parents in the Smart Parents app: News: posts in the categories the website chooses become notices for every parent, with a button back to the post. The app's home screen alre... Smart Parents app coverage by class 3 min read Before you send a notice to a class, it helps to know who it will actually reach. App coverage shows, for every class, how many pupils have a parent signed up to the Smart Parents app — and lets you see who to chase. You... Smart Parents events and sign-ups 5 min read Events you create here appear on the calendar in the parent app. Unlike a Google Calendar, which parents can only read, an event created here can be signed up to — so you get a list of who is coming without chasing repli... The School Story 3 min read The School Story is a feed of photos and news in the Smart Parents app. Staff post to it from teacher mode in the app — photos are taken and posted from a phone. Here you can switch it on, see everything that has been po... Timetable and Coming up on the Launchpad 4 min read What people see Timetable. Pupils and staff see their own lessons. The panel bar shows what is on now or next, and the Launchpad shows today and a My week page. Class codes, rooms and teachers come from your school's tim... Turn Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 apps on or off 4 min read Select Apps in the sidebar (under Platforms), then the All apps tab. The App suites card at the top has one switch for each suite: Google Workspace: Mail (Gmail), Drive, Calendar, Classroom, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Keep, S... Using Help — browse and search the guides 3 min read Help is the library of guides for ADAdmin: step-by-step how-tos, explainers, reference tables and troubleshooting. It's for admins, mentors, observers, governors and Ofsted accounts — learners don't have Help. Steps Step...