If you have substituted for years or you just started, this app is user friendly. After being certified to sub at your school district you can choose schools you would like to sub at. If you know the teachers they could add a job for you and if you’re not available for any reason just go to the “Availability” tab and add a non-recurring event. Also, the app lets you choose the days you would like to work. It’s a great way to form relationships with teachers and schools. You can see your substitute schedule in the “Schedule” tab and if for any reason you can’t make it you can cancel the job without entering a reason, though I don’t recommend you cancel unless necessary. If you’re interested in becoming a teacher, substituting is a great way to try and see a classroom setting and you gain experience.

By the time I see them on my app exactly when it notifies me, they are already gone. And I’m seeing jobs at schools I hid. What’s the point of hiding them? I don’t understand preferences when I see jobs from schools I don’t want to work at. I don’t like this app, I’m not getting jobs. I have hidden schools I don’t want to see jobs from, like all the high schools and junior highs and I still see those jobs, so hiding schools doesn’t work. I worked pretty much every day the last 2 years on their old app, now the jobs are gone before I even tap them so they are NOT hitting everyone’s app at the same time. I hear the notification and can’t tap fast enough. And as filters, those don’t work either. I chose one and it goes back to no filters applied. Preferences says default. I guess that means all schools show, even though you have all schools as a choice. Other districts used the frontline app and I never had problems with it. I could actually choose the schools I’d work at and I then never saw jobs from ones I didn’t want to work at. And I could use Sub Alert that helped me see jobs first before they were gone. Your app is not one they support. I still don’t like your app as I’m used to working and picking the jobs I want. Now I’m not working as I can’t even get a job. I worked the first 3 weeks of school last year and pretty much worked every day in jobs I wanted. I’m a retired teacher.

Red Rover is so easy to use because you can block out days when you’re not available, cancel from the app when and if you need to, and monitor your schedule at a glance. For open positions, you have the option to receive text notifications, phone calls, or pop ups as banners on your phone. You can also search in the app for positions that are unfilled. It’s also great to be able to choose which dates of a longer-term position fit your schedule; you don’t have to select all of them. You can also receive half-day notices for the morning if you’re already booked for the afternoon. You won’t receive notices for new postings if you’re already fully booked on a given day, but you can see days where you are open, even if a position includes a day you’re already booked. The app is so easy to use that positions vanish in a flash, because all you have to do is click the “accept” button. I strongly recommend Red Rover. One suggestion for improvement: offer a button where jobs can be added to a Google calendar.

Overall, RedRover is a great app. I like how I can pick the days I am available to sub if there is a long sub position but can’t take all days. It’s easy to put in the days you are unable to sub because of doctor’s appointments. It’s user friendly. The only issue I have is when I get a notification the job is gone within seconds of the notification. I check the app and website multiple times a day. Even when I get into the app the jobs are already gone. I refresh the app and webpage all the time jobs are there and then vanish as they have been taken. If I press on the job before I refresh the page it shows the job has been taken. When my district used another app there always were jobs available. I use to have October, November, and December filled or almost filled by the end of September. I am also suppose to receive text messages from RedRover about jobs available, cancelled, etc. I don’t receive any. I wish this could be fixed.