Parent View
Parents and students open MarkBook inside the Kinderpedia parent app or website. They see a simple page with the child's grades, learning outcomes and published reports, exactly as the school shares them. Staff can preview the same screens with Parent view.
What a family sees
The page is called MarkBook: "Your child's grades, learning outcomes and reports, as the school shares them." It has up to three tabs:
| Tab | Content |
|---|---|
| Grades | The columns the school marked Visible to parent. |
| Learning outcomes | Judgements against the curriculum frameworks the school shares. |
| Reports | Published reports, with View report and Download PDF. |
A parent with more than one child at the school sees a child picker. A student sees only themselves. A parent never sees another family's child.
The family screen does not show internal pupil data such as SEN or EAL tags, student number, date of birth or gender.
Which tabs appear
A tab appears only if the school shares it. See Family Permissions. If nothing is shared, the page says Nothing is shared yet. If grades are not shared, the Grades tab says "No grades are shared yet".
Which grades appear
A grade is visible only when its column is set to Visible to parent in the column library (Configuration → Assessment → Column Library), and only when the school's release rule allows it. A column has one of two rules:
| Rule | Families see the grade |
|---|---|
| Immediately | As soon as a teacher enters it. |
| Once a leader has approved it | Only after a leader signs off the column. Until then it is missing from their view, not shown blank. |
Pick the second rule when you do not want parents to see a mark that is still being decided. See Checking & Approving Columns. A calculated column uses only the columns that are visible to parents.
Reports
On the Reports tab each report shows when it was published. A parent can:
- View report and Download PDF.
- I have read it: confirm the report was read. The school sees this in Report Access.
- Message the school: ask a question about the report (see below).
A parent can also open a report from the e-mailed link without logging in. See E-mailing Reports to Parents.
Questions about a report
If the school allows it, a parent opens Message the school on a published report and writes up to 2,000 characters. There is one conversation for each report and parent.
Staff see a message icon with a number on the report row in the Reports list when a parent wrote and nobody read it yet. Open it with Messages. Who can answer:
- the main teachers (form tutors) of the child's class,
- managers and senior leaders (SLT),
- the coordinator of the child's year group.
A head of department cannot answer unless they also hold one of these roles. Staff can answer only a conversation that a parent started, on a published report. The parent gets a push notification of the reply, and the label New reply from the school appears.
Staff preview
Open Parent view in the sidebar to see a pupil's markbook as the family sees it.
- Pick a Group and then a Student (the pupil must be in that group).
- Press Apply.
- Browse the three tabs.
Use Subjects as rows or Periods as rows to switch the table. The preview uses the same screens as the family, so what you see is what they see. Actions that only a parent can do, such as confirming a report, are shown but do not work: "What the parent sees; only the parent can do this."
If no column is Visible to parent, the preview says "Nothing is shared with parents yet". An administrator can open the column configuration from there.
Example
Before Term 1 reports go out, the head of Year 8 opens Parent view, picks 8A and a pupil, and checks the Grades tab. She sees the Effort column but no Target Grade. That is the plan: Target Grade is not visible to parent. She then checks the Reports tab shows nothing yet.
Edge cases
- A parent with no linked child sees "No children to show".
- If the school has no school year set up, the page says so.
- Unpublishing a report removes it from the Reports tab.
- A subject from a markbook template that is switched off or archived is not shown, unless the child already has a mark in it. Marks a family has seen do not disappear.