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  • How to Remove Account Profiles on the SchoolBridge App
    You can quickly remove account profiles you no longer need, by clicking on the More option in the bottom bar.Featured
  • SchoolBridge App Roll Out Guide
    Giving your school access to the SchoolBridge App is a great way to make interacting with the services and information you provide more convenient for people to access and increase engagement.Featured
  • 📺 How to Add Account Profiles to the SchoolBridge App
    You can add multiple students to your SchoolBridge account.Featured
  • 📺 How to Sign Out of the SchoolBridge App
    How to Sign Out of the SchoolBridge AppFeatured
  • 📺 Add a PIN Code to the SchoolBridge App
    You can set a pin code to prevent others from using your mobile device to access your account. To set a pin code, tap the More… option in the bottom menu and tap Set PIN Enter and verify your PIN code and tap Finish The next time you launch the app you will need to enter your PIN code before the it will open.Few readers
  • 📺 Use the SchoolBridge App to Sign In on the Web
    Caregivers can use the schoolBridge app to make signing in to the web version of schoolBridge faster by scanning a QR code instead of requesting a magic link.Few readers
Permission Slips
  • 📺 Using Permission Slips & Self Start Student/Caregiver Forms
    SchoolBridge Permission Slips & Student FormsSome readers
  • 📺 Working With Student Forms (Self-Start)
    Working with Self-Start Student and Caregiver Forms Creating and Setting Options Creating a self-staFew readers
  • 📺 Permission Slips: Sending Reminders
    Sending Reminders Automatic Reminders You can have reminders sent auFew readers
Staff Forms
  • Staff Forms for Approvers
    Staff Forms in SchoolBridge make it easy for administrative teams to work together to evaluate and approve form workflows.Featured
  • Staff Forms for Administrators
    Staff Forms in SchoolBridge is a flexible system that can be used to build staff form workflows for information gathering, request approvals and more. Workflows can consist of a single form or you can combine multiple forms for more complicated workflows.Featured
  • Staff Forms for Teachers & Support Staff
    Staff Forms in SchoolBridge make it easy to find and submit the forms that you need to submit for approvals, requests, proposals, and more.Featured
  • Staff Forms @Mentions
    How to use Staff Forms @Mentions Featured
  • 📺 Using the the Form Builder
    The form builder in SchoolBridge is easy to use to create simple forms and it also offers advanced capabilities that allow you create more user-friendly and interactive forms.Some readers
  • SchoolBridge- Resources
    SchoolBridge Resources is a versatile publishing system that allows you to share all kinds of information with your community.Featured
  • 📺 Staff Permissions
    Staff Permissions and Permission groups allow you to delegate responsibility for the different areas of SchoolBridge and SchoolPoint to your team.Featured
  • Connecting SchoolBridge to your school.kiwi (KAMAR) Portal
    When you upgrade to the new School.Kiwi portal by the end of 2024 as required by KAMAR, you will need to make some changes in the portal connection area of SchoolPoint/ SchoolBridge for it to continue to run smoothly for your staff, caregivers and students. If this is not updated, then your community will not be able access the School.Kiwi links via the parent portal.Featured
  • 📺 Log in/ Sign in to the SchoolBridge Mobile App
    Log in/ Sign in to the SchoolBridge Mobile App, add multiple accounts.Featured
  • Quick Tip: Absence reporting in SchoolBridge
    Absence reporting in SchoolBridge is easy to use for both your parents and caregivers, and absence administrators.Featured
  • SchoolBridge Extra- Student Metrics / Athlete Development Module
    This is a paid extra through SchoolBridge. Contact Inbox Design for more information. This can be used for athletic tracking, and measuring many other student metrics.Featured
  • SchoolBridge and Expired Caregiver Accounts
    In certain situations it can be useful to understand how changes to your student data can affect the ability for caregivers to sign in.Featured
  • 📺 Managing SchoolBridge Dashboards
    Dashboards are your user’s homepage in SchoolBridge and they play an important role in how caregivers, students and staff engage with the services and information you provide.Featured
  • Introducing SchoolBridge to your School
    Ideas for introducing SchoolBridge to your SchoolFeatured
  • Online Payments for Schools
    Paying online makes life easier for your school community when they need to pay for items such as uniforms, EOTC trip costs, event tickets, donations, and more. Online payments also make it much easier for your finance team to track and reconcile payments.Featured
  • Staff Login with different email addresses
    Matching Staff emails for log in ValidationFeatured
  • Staff Lockdown Module - Emergency Management
    Staff Evacuation and Lockdown ModuleFeatured
  • Managing EOTC with SchoolBridge
    EOTC management is one of the most challenging workflows that schools need to manage. Outdoor education events, academic field trips, sport events and work placement programs all require careful planning, caregiver consent and record keeping.Featured
  • Using the SchoolBridge Calendar
    The SchoolBridge Calendar can be used as the central calendar for your School Staff, Students and Caregivers. It encompasses the assessment and career events all in one place.Featured
  • Exporting Data from eTAP into SchoolBridge
    If you use eTap as your SMS this guide will help you to export the Data from eTAP into SchoolBridgeFeatured
  • Staff Forms- Linking to Permission Slips
    Staff Form linking to Permission Slips, locking on submission and how to edit the status. Featured
  • Quick Tip: SchoolBridge Calendar View and Calendar Feeds for Events/ Permission Slips
    The calendar view in SchoolBridge gives you a handy overview of upcoming events and EOTC permission Slips. You also added the ability to publish these events to external calendar systems.Featured
  • Add a Calendar Feed to Google Calendar
    How to add a calendar feed to google calendarFeatured
  • 📺 Signing in / Logging in to SchoolBridge & SchoolPoint
    How to direct your parents/ caregivers/ staff to sign in via the SchoolBridge DashboardFeatured
  • Your School Data Sync Needs to be Set Up- Error Message
    Your School Data Sync Needs to be Set Up- Error MessageFeatured
  • SchoolBridge: Ka Pai Rewards System (PB4L) - All about it
    Within SchoolBridge we have a product called Ka Pai Rewards. This is our version of the PB4L rewards system many schools implement. The name is fully customisable for your school.Featured
  • SchoolBridge Teacher's Planner
    The Teacher‘s Planner in is great tool that allows staff to plan and record notes that relate directly to their timetable of scheduled classes.Featured
  • Supporting Users with Sign-in or Account Issues
    This guide helps you support students and caregivers with Sign-in or Account IssuesFeatured
  • SchoolBridge Digital ID Cards in the App
    School ID cards for your students can be found in the SchoolBridge App- if your school chooses to enable it.Featured
  • Alert Messages/ Push notifications and SMS
    The ability to send alert messages to your community is a major reason to use the SchoolBridge App and helps keep your community abreast of important news and information.Featured
  • Create a Google Account using an Existing Email Address
    How to create a Google Account Featured
  • How to Reset a Permission Slip to amend or make changes
    Sometimes you may run into a situation where the recipient of a permission slip has entered incorrect information into the form, or needs to make some other change. In SchoolBridge you can do this in two ways.Featured
  • Form Builder - Conditional Components
    This guide shows you how to use conditional components when setting up your forms. This allows for things to display or be hidden depending on a condition.Featured
  • Form Builder- Perform Mathematical Calculations in your Forms (example included)
    Perform mathematical calculations on your forms.Featured
  • Make Changes to a Staff Form After Final Approval
    Sometimes you may need to allow staff to update a form after final approval has been given due to last minute changes.Featured
  • Customising the Event Take Along Report
    This feature allows you to customise the Compact Permission Slip report to show only the fields you are interested in.Featured
  • SchoolBridge Daily Notices
    Share important information with your community using a digital notice board that can be viewed on the web, in the SchoolBridge Mobile App, and on display monitors placed around your school.Featured
  • Permission Slip Flags & Recipient Rules
    When sending permission slips it can be useful to set alert flags to highlight circumstances that affect event participation as well as determine who receives the slip when it is sent.Featured
  • Dashboard Reminder Widgets / Dashboard Summaries
    Add Dashboard reminder widgets to your staff and caregiver dashboards to remind them they have outstanding permission slips or forms to complete. This is like a summary on the dashboard for your community.Featured
  • Form Builder: Field Components
    Form Builder Field Components Learn about the Form Components and the settings available within the Form Components. A Form component collects user data and serves as the display or user interface within the system. Form components define the type of widget that users will enter their data and will automatically add a property to the resource endpoint to interact with the Form component. Click here for info about the form builder layout components (https://inboxdesign.crisp.help/en-Popular
  • Activity Registrations- Settings and Managing Registrations
    The Activity Registrations Site Extra, enables your school to organise registration and payment for extra curricular activities. You can create an unlimited number activities and organise them into categories to give you flexibility as to how the registrations display on your site. For example, you could have a separate page where you list sport registrations and another section where you list art classes etc. All student and caregiver information is checked against your existing KAMAR dataFew readers
  • Form Builder : Layout Components
    Form Builder Layout Components Layout components are used to change the general layout of forms Click here for info on the form builder field components HTML Element An HTML Element component may be added to a form to display a single HTML Element. This is useful if you wish to quickly insert and configure some HTML in your form. All unsafe HTML is stripped before rendering to prevent cross-Few readers
  • Quick Tip: How Submissions Get Named
    Every submission needs a name by which it is referenced by, both within SchoolBridge and by your team. SchoolBridge gives you two options to define how submissions get named, so that they fit in with how you think about your workflow. The first option allows the submitter to name the submission, based on a prompt that you give them. This is good for things like EOTFew readers
  • Quick Tip: Sibling Switcher
    When a caregiver signs in to SchoolBridge, the system will detect if they are linked to other students and if they are, a switch icon will display on the caregiver dashboard and a persistent switch icon will display next to their name in the upper right hand corner. InsteaFew readers
  • Xero Claims/ Reimbursements
    Due to many requests from staff at various schools, we have now developed a module which is an extra add on to SchoolBridge. Here staff can create reimbursement/ claim requests which are submitted through to payroll/ the appropriate person for approval, and can easily be attached in Xero. Receipts can be attached in multiple formats as one claim. This includes mileage claims, and overnight claims. Reimbursement for Expenses Claim Form (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/6a83Few readers
  • Quick Tip: Adding a Review Phase to Your Approval Workflow
    When a submission has reached the final approval stage, the staff member assigned to that stage will have the option to add a review stage to the submission, when they approve it. The review form can be added at the conclusion of the approval process and gets sent to the submitter on the date of your choosingFew readers
  • 📺 Form Builder Data Grid Fix
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  • 📺 Import Absence Reports in to KAMAR
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  • Quick Tip: How to ‘@ mention’ staff members during the approval process to ‘Keep them in the Loop’.
    SchoolBridge Quick Tip: How to ‘@ mention’ staff members during the approval process to ‘Keep them in the Loop’.Few readers
  • Exporting Student COVID Slips from SchoolBridge into KAMAR
    To export Student COVID Slip data, view the slip, and see the list of students. On the top right, click the EXPORT button, and select COVID CSV Then open KAMAR. From the ADMIN menu, select COVID VACCINATIONS. You will see the ACTIONS button, click this and click IMPORT CUSTOM CSV (https://storage.crisp.chat/userFew readers
  • How to ‘@ mention’ staff members during the approval process to ‘Keep them in the Loop’.
    When a request or form has been submitted and it starts going through your approval stages, you can notify any other staff member to keep them abreast of the submission. Mentioned staff members can view the submission and join in the discussion about it. You can @-mention staff members in two ways: Automatically as part of any of your approval stages: (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/websiFew readers
  • Form Builder: Copy Submission Date to Form
    This form example uses JavaScript to copy the calendar date value that the user inputs in the initial submission creation step for using that value elsewhere in the form. This saves the user from having to enter the value again. Note: This will not work within Data-Grid fields.Few readers
  • 📺 Using the Sibling Switcher
    Switching Between Your Students If you are a caregiver with multiple students at the same school, you can easily switch between your children’s accounts without having to sign out. Clicking the Switch Siblings icon allows you to quickly switch between the accounts for all of your children. You can also switch between accounts by clicking the student name that appears under your name in the upper right hand corner of the screeFew readers
  • Staff Details & Next of Kin
    Staff information is automatically synced to SchoolBridge from your Student Information System, but sometimes you may need to make adjustments to the data received.Few readers

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