ParentVUE 4+

I am supporting Synergy implementation in our school district this year. As a parent, I find this apps incredibly helpful. Let’s me message staff, submit attendance, see assignments, check grade book, even look at progress toward graduation.

In my support role, I’ve found that multilingual parents are struggling to set their language preference when they log into the app. The login screen needs to have language preference 3/4 of the way down the page in a highlighted color. As it is, it’s not obvious and most are missing it.

Fingers crossed that the developers will honor reviews and update accordingly.

When you download the app it takes you to a website instead of opening as its own app. The actions I need to do on the app are virtually unavailable on the website…🙄

Update: When are you going to make it possible to copy your child’s other parent (often located in a separate household) on emails? These families number in the millions. You and the school systems are operating off 1950’s assumptions about the US population. You aren’t meeting the needs of today’s families!

The ONLY thing this app does decently is show me my son’s grades. Our district has deemed that we MUST use it in order to communicate with teachers. But the email portion doesn’t work on my iPhone, I can’t copy my son’s father on any communication, and the website doesn’t even work in my phone. So after work, between making dinner for my family,’helping with homework, and doing necessary chores such as laundry, I have to make time to sit down at my laptop to log in. What are parents who can’t afford a computer supposed to do?? We live in a very poor district, one of the worst in the country, and there are so many families who can’t afford a home computer. For the first three weeks of school this year, the school didn’t even KNOW we had to use parentvue, so important emails went unanswered. Why on earth would anyone want to use an app that blocks parent-teacher communication instead of facilitating it?