Coach Dashboard

Last lesson and Next up are shown for each subject. Next up is the next skill in the scope and sequence that this child hasn't been taught yet. Open Progress for mastery, growth, and standards.

"Practiced" means the child saved work on that skill after it was assigned. Families can also mark an assignment done.

Family Messages

Parents' notes and uploaded schoolwork, one thread per child. Open a thread to read, see attachments, and reply (your reply is emailed to the family).

Lessons and materials you build (HTML lessons, PDFs, images), filed under the skill they teach. Coaches only. They also appear under Resources on that skill's lesson page in coach view.

Post news, newsletters, and community posts to the family portal. Only Learning Plus families can see them. Parents can like and comment; their comments stay hidden until a coach approves them. You'll see how many families have viewed each post.

Posts

Once you and a parent have confirmed the first session, fill this in and the portal writes the welcome email for you, with a private link to the child's About Me form and the welcome video. You can edit the email before it goes out. You, Jason, and Akin get one copy, as with every family email.

Family onboarding

Every family has four Getting started steps in the portal: the welcome video (voucher or private pay, by funding), the handbook and acknowledgment, the liability waiver, and About Me for each child. Families check them off; click a step to mark it done for them (for example, when a signed form arrives), or click again to undo. Use Fill in to complete About Me for students you already have.

Families who asked about tutoring but aren't enrolled yet. Add them here, then email them from a template: the portal turns each [blank] into a box to fill in, so nothing goes out half-finished. Every email is saved under Email families → Sent emails, and you, Jason, and Akin get a copy. When a family says yes, press Enroll to add the student with their details filled in.

Email families

For newsletters, schedule changes, and reminders. Each family gets its own email, so no one sees other families’ names or addresses, and siblings share one email. Replies go to the coach inbox, and Amy, Jason, and Akin get a copy of everything sent.

Sent emails

Family emails: weekly reminder & monthly snapshot

Automatic emails to Learning Plus families. The weekly reminder has each child's plan, and the monthly snapshot has their growth, mastered skills, and sessions. Preview them here at any time. Admins only.

Choose a period and who to include, pick a report, and press Run report. Every report can be downloaded for Excel or Google Sheets, or printed. For class-wide charts (trouble spots, score grid, standards), open Analytics.

Enter a child's screener results. The portal finds the gaps, reaching back to earlier grades, and drafts a plan of lessons. Nothing is assigned until a coach approves it. Assigned lessons are at-home practice, so they go only to Learning Plus families. For tutoring-only families, the plan is saved for you to use in sessions.

Log a one-minute cold read during a session. The portal works out words correct per minute (WCPM) and accuracy and compares them with the DIBELS® 8th Edition ORF benchmark goals for the child's grade and the time of year.

Benchmarks: DIBELS® 8th Edition Benchmark Goals (July 2020), © University of Oregon. Benchmarks assume a grade-level passage. Aug–Nov uses beginning-of-year goals, Dec–Feb middle-of-year, and Mar–Jul end-of-year. Kindergarten has no ORF benchmark, and Grade 9 is compared with Grade 8.

Reports parents and coaches send from lesson pages: answer-key errors, technical problems, and content concerns. Each one also emails the coach inbox.

Admins only. Card details are never stored in the portal; payments are managed in your Stripe dashboard. Marking a family “invited” does not start a trial: only the parent’s click on Activate does.

Teacher notes

Send new notes from any grade's Family & Teacher Hub in coach view.