Batch Childcare Daily Sheets

When filing daily reports, do you ever find it a hassle to rewrite a particular entry that applies to every student? Say, nap time or a special activity?

Our latest Tadpoles feature, batch daily reports, can fix that! Now, you can record a daily report entry for an entire class, rather than tediously writing out the same note for each individual child. Check out how to access this simple, quick and paperless tool!

Start at the homescreen and tap "kids". We are going to file a batch daily report for the toddler class. Touch "actions" in the top right hand corner and select "daily reports". 

A blank childcare daily sheet will appear. At the bottom of the screen, scroll all the way to the left until it shows the classroom you want to file the batch daily report in.

In this scenario, every toddler napped from 2-2:45 pm and participated in music day! These notes will be filed in every toddler's daily report. If there is an exception to one of these notes (say one child only napped from 2:30-2:45 pm), you can edit it individually in the child's report without changing the entire batch entry. 

After the batch report is saved, you can continue filing all other daily report entries and finish by uploading them. 

Saving time and paper has never been easier! The daily reports have been filed, saved, and submitted to parents, making everyone happy!

Download the Childcare by Tadpoles app today! File a batch daily report yourself, and find out how quick and simple it is! 

Auto checkout at the end of the day.

We recently had a request for a new feature related to doing attendance using tadpoles.  Several providers mentioned that sometimes they may not get a chance or forget to checkout students at the end of the day.  They would love to have our system automatically checkout students if they didn't get to it.  With lots of parents coming to pickup their children at the end of the day we completely understand!  

With auto checkout hopefully you can save time and focus on wrapping up your day.  This new feature would help if a teacher or director forgot to upload a daily report since that would automatically be sent once the child had been marked out on the attendance sheet.  Parents benefit because we can now guarantee that every daily report will be delivered!

We're looking for feedback on what time you'd like to have children automatically checked out so its not too early and not too late.   Between 7pm and 8pm local time seems about right.  We'd also be interested to hear if anyone wouldn't want this feature automatically enabled.  So far everyone we've talked to loves the idea. 

Reach out to us at talk.to.us@tadpoles.com about this feature or any other ideas you might have.  We live for customer feedback!  Special thanks to Cara for requesting the feature.