AWS Classes Admin

Admin dashboard

School year

Current page Class Calendars

Amend Public View

Edit the public page branding, key public text, and the Download Week PDF colours/logos.

Public page text Browser page title Header title Select classes title Public page font

Public page colours Header - light Header - dark Accent colour Page background Card background

Urgent colours and upcoming closure notification Urgent banner background Urgent banner text Urgent banner border Closure notice background Closure notice text Closure notice border Upcoming closure days before

Upcoming Closure Notification controls how many days before a closure the public-page notice appears, and the colours used for that notice. Set this to 0 if the notification should never show.

Download Week PDF text PDF title Urgent contact text Menu box line 1 Menu box line 2 Allergen text

Download Week PDF colours PDF background Box background Border colour Title colour Title box background Title border Urgent text colour Allergen background Allergen border

Download Week PDF logos Top-left logo Left logo size Top-right logo Right logo size

Continuous Feedback

Create short, optional feedback prompts that appear occasionally on the public class page.

Beginner guide

Use one live question at a time for most classes. Keep it short and focused.

Ask about things you can act on, such as communication, class information, mornings/after school, events, meals, or the school environment.

Avoid urgent or sensitive questions. The prompt is anonymous and is not for safeguarding, complaints, or anything needing a direct reply.

Leave time between questions. A good starting point is a 7-day cooldown after a view/skip and 21–30 days after a response.

Review response rates. If views rise but responses drop, reduce the number of live surveys or make the question simpler.

Internal survey name Status Question text 0 / 160 characters. Aim for 120 or fewer. Active from Active to Response type

Response labels / settings

Response labels shown to parents/carers

You can change the words parents see. For face scales, the images stay in order from worst to best.

Colours

Question background Text colour Border colour

Question font size Answer font size

Question 2 Add a second question Question 2 text Question 2 response type

Question 2 response labels / choices

Question 2 can use the same response types as Question 1. For Multi-word, enter one word or short phrase per line, maximum 8.

Who sees it? Select all classes and key stages

Key Stages

Classes

Advanced display settings

Chance of showing on an eligible visit (%) Auto-hide if ignored (seconds) Cooldown after view/skip (days) Cooldown after response (days) “What’s this for?” text

Manage Users

Invite new users, activate/deactivate users, and allocate tabs/classes.

Email Display name Role

Tabs available to this user

Active users

Archived users are hidden from this list and search.

Search users

Information

Manage useful links and short information messages for the public page.

Useful Links

Create public links grouped by category. The preview shows how the link will appear to parents.

Preview

Saved useful links

Add new category

Urgent Information

Schedule short urgent messages for the public page. A message will only show between its start and end date/time.

Past Urgent Notes

Scheduled urgent information

View Usage

Anonymous usage totals by date and hour. No individual visitors are tracked.

Manage Classes

Create Key Stages, then add classes inside them.

Admin branding

Change the logo and title shown at the top of the admin area.

Current structure

School and Key Stages

Master calendar status, school-wide entries, Key Stage entries, attachments, and read-only class calendar notes.

Holidays are populated from Manage Calendar. Key Stages are populated from Manage Classes. Input school-wide or Key Stage events in the grid below by clicking the relevant date/column and saving. Information will automatically populate onto the relevant classes on the public page. Weekends are read-only.

Public page timing: The next week will become visible on the public page at 3pm on Friday. Please ensure messages, routines and homework are fixed by then.
Future events: To show future events on a class page, select the star. Starred events will then show as Upcoming Events for relevant classes.

Manage Calendar

Select one or more dates, then set them as Inset Day, admin day, school holiday, or Public/Bank holiday.

School years

New school years default to 1 September through 31 August of the following year.

Year Calendar publishing

Tick the school years parents can choose on the public Year Calendar page.

No dates selected.

School holiday Public/Bank holiday Admin day Inset day Today

Class Calendars

To view classes, choose a Key Stage and press Load. Enter routines, class events and attachments, and add weekly teacher messages.

Key Stage

Meal plans

Create week menus, allocate them to school weeks, add overrides, and manage the public meal payment link.

Link for Meal Payments

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Saved menus

Manage Resources

Add phonics, spellings, maths and related resource settings for Class Comms and the public page.

Phonics

Add PhonicClick to expand ▾

Choose a phase first if needed. If no phase is selected, the phonic will be saved as ungrouped.

Edit PhonicClick to expand ▾

Select a phonic from the grouped list, then update the text, phase, image, or sound.

Manage PhasesClick to expand ▾

Add phases, rename them, or move them up and down. Deleting a phase keeps its phonics but moves them to Ungrouped.

Phonic Reading SettingsClick to expand ▾

Set how the public page plays phonics. Times are in seconds.

Edit Phonics PDF OutputClick to expand ▾

Set the logos, wording and colours used when saving Phonics as PDF/Image from Class Comms.

PDF logos Top-left logo Left logo size Top-right logo Right logo size

PDF wording Help text Sounds section text Practice words section text Sentences section text Tricky words section text

PDF colours and sizing

Border colour Background

Default font size 24px Sound card size 200%

Spellings

Spelling Reading SettingsClick to expand ▾

Set how the public page reads spellings. Times are in seconds. The sample uses example words so you can hear the pattern before parents use it.

Fast How many times to say each word Time between repetition Time before next word

Slow How many times to say each word Time between repetition Time before next word

Sample script

Edit Spelling PDF OutputClick to expand ▾

Controls the logo, logo size, and table columns used when saving Spellings as PDF/Image from Class Comms.

Weekly Email

Generate a parent/carer weekly email, including class/key stage events, meals and attached letters.

Class

The Weekly Letter uses the same next-week logic as the public page. Choose a class, then generate.