Playground

Daniel Andrews

Stephanie Blitshtein

Sasha Reiss

Help topics that apply to teachers, staff, and the Teacher App

For Teachers

Share this with your staff to get them started using Playground!

Staff Training Video

A guide to setting up your teacher account on Playground.

How to sign up for Playground as a teacher

How to use the Student Roster tile to look for information about students including notes, activities, allergies, and medications.

Finding Student Information Using the Roster

What is available to staff members on desktop as opposed to the mobile application

Staff mobile vs. web view

Getting started

How staff can clock-in or out on their device.

Staff Clock-In/Out on their Device

Hour Tracking

When recording an activity for the entire class, filter students based on their schedule.

Record an Activity with Schedule filters

How to quickly sign multiple students in or out

Toggle quick sign

A guide to setting up a mobile device as a sign-in/out kiosk that takes family PIN codes.

Kiosk Mode — 4-digit PIN code

Staff can check students in and out using the Roster tile on the Teacher app.

Student check-in by staff

A guide to completing your own health check on the Teacher App.

How to complete a teacher wellness check

You can note that a student is absent and the reason for their absence in the Teacher App.

How to mark a student as absent in the Teacher App

Edit a previously recorded student activity in the Teacher or Administrator App.

Edit an activity or post

How to check a student in or out of an extracurricular program

Program check-in and check-out

Open your QR code for families to check students in and out.

Kiosk mode

Transition students between multiple classrooms throughout the day

Classroom transition for students

Complete a Name to face check-in for your classroom to make sure all students are present.

Name to face

Staff transitions

Attendance and checks

Delete a post

The Chat feature allows you to directly message with parents and teachers, individually or as a group.

How to use Chat as a teacher

Record activities, posts, and observations for a single student or group of students.

Create a post from the mobile app

Social

A guide to switching students from one classroom to another on the Administrator app

Getting started

Hour Tracking

Attendance and checks

Social

User management