Excellent App
Fabulous information at quick reach for families.
Honestly - terrible
Quite possibly the worst app for school communication. So disappointed that our school has switched to using this instead of emails.
Issues with passwords then when trying to reset password (probably every third time I try and log in) the link won't come through or it won't allow the new, updated password to work.
Parent Orbit has been so much better to use for the school my older child attends.
Issues with passwords then when trying to reset password (probably every third time I try and log in) the link won't come through or it won't allow the new, updated password to work.
Parent Orbit has been so much better to use for the school my older child attends.
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Issues
Not the easiest app, issues logging in and logging absences
One of the Worst
One of the worst, most non user friendly apps I’ve had the displeasure of using. So many long time bugs still not fixed, in particular the sign in issues
Just brilliant
Such a wonderful resource for parents, I can see all of my children’s information in a clear well laid out format. I can log an absence, complete permission forms, see their reports and timetable. Well done BCE, such a great resource!
Just frustrating
Im just trying to see my report card bro and everytime i log in it takes me back to the log in page so i have to put my info in again but takes me back to the log in page every single time.
I cannot login
I have deleted, updated, reinstalled this app, reset my password 3 times and I cannot login. It comes up with f5 error. This is so inconvenient as I can’t log absences or appointments or even easily access my kids school report -.-
Cheap and buggy
I’ve repeatedly given feedback on this app to BCE and the school. The app isn’t stable or something. Every time I try to use it there is an issue. It is literally so frustrating when all I am attempting to do is mark my child absent.
Hard to find information with new blog setup
Update after developer response
The response from the developer does not address the issue. The new way may have been designed to make it easier but it makes it harder. There was never an issue when you could select the individual year level blogs. If you wanted to see information related to year 3 you could select the year 3 blog and see all the relevant blogs in one place. If you wanted to see information for prep you could select the prep blog and see all the blogs related to preps. The new blog set up does not give you any way to filter the blogs. All information is dumped together in a central blog, split between 2 tabs. This makes it incredibly difficult to find information related to one child in any given year level because it is now mixed in with every other year level that you have children attending the school. Combining all the blogs together does not make it easier, it makes it harder. Perhaps adding an option to filter the posts would be helpful, although having the individual year level blogs was a significantly better set up.
Original review
The new blog setup makes it impossible to keep on top of information for multiple children. It was much easier to find information relating to a particular year level when you could choose the blog for that year level. Now you need to search through both the news and blog tabs as some year levels are posting in the the news and some are posting in the blogs tab. If you have multiple children, not only do you need to sort through multiple year levels worth of information, you also have to sort through all the other non year level specific posts that have been made that are all mixed in together.
The response from the developer does not address the issue. The new way may have been designed to make it easier but it makes it harder. There was never an issue when you could select the individual year level blogs. If you wanted to see information related to year 3 you could select the year 3 blog and see all the relevant blogs in one place. If you wanted to see information for prep you could select the prep blog and see all the blogs related to preps. The new blog set up does not give you any way to filter the blogs. All information is dumped together in a central blog, split between 2 tabs. This makes it incredibly difficult to find information related to one child in any given year level because it is now mixed in with every other year level that you have children attending the school. Combining all the blogs together does not make it easier, it makes it harder. Perhaps adding an option to filter the posts would be helpful, although having the individual year level blogs was a significantly better set up.
Original review
The new blog setup makes it impossible to keep on top of information for multiple children. It was much easier to find information relating to a particular year level when you could choose the blog for that year level. Now you need to search through both the news and blog tabs as some year levels are posting in the the news and some are posting in the blogs tab. If you have multiple children, not only do you need to sort through multiple year levels worth of information, you also have to sort through all the other non year level specific posts that have been made that are all mixed in together.
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Never works
Never works
Terrible
Issues logging in every single time absolutely impossible to use you really need to fix this login issue and just have an auto login with iPhone password or face id not this whole login via the website and have the login reset; every time I need to reset the password it is the biggest waste of time ever
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Incredibly bad app, shame on Catholic education for having it
I regret enrolling my child into catholic education solely due to this app. It’s the single most frustrating app I have ever used. It will randomly logs you out and when you try to log in it will tell you password is incorrect, when you try to set up password it will tell you it’s used already but if you try logging with it will say incorrect. Sometimes you click on parental portal and will ask you to log in again even if you are already logged in app. Ohh and when you do put your credentials in it will just finish in white screen and you have to start again and if you are lucky it will not force you to again change password for no reason. Menus in app are stupid too, trying to book parent teacher meeting it’s in random location under booked…. Why would it be under booked if you have not booked yet. Terrible/horrible app and they refused to fix, think about enrolling your kid elsewhere…
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The WORST app ever
This is the most disjointed, confusing and woeful app I have ever used. If the aim of this app is to frustrate the user and waste their time then it has achieved their mission. Absolute rubbish.
Cannot download app
I have been very frustrated because I cannot download the new app. I have tried numerous times and have to google BCE every time and login that way
Once logged in it is easy to navigate so I have given 3 stars for that
Once logged in it is easy to navigate so I have given 3 stars for that
Frustrating!!!
The app is so useless and doesn’t even work. I try to log into the app with my school email and when I press ‘Sign In’ it just takes me back to the sign in screen. I tried deleting the app, restarting my phone, logging into the app with or without wifi, making sure my phone is up to date, and it still doesn’t work!!
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Not user friendly
Frustrating that I continually get logged out and have to change password every time I use the app.
Frustrating Beyond Belief
This app has a mind of its own. One day the information is there, the next it’s not. Continually having to close app and “reopen”. It should not be this difficult.
Painful
Hard to believe it was possible, but this app is even worse after the update.
So unstable
App not working … again. Always glitching, data sometimes loads, sometimes doesn’t. So frustrating.
Probably the worst app I’ve ever used
Doesn’t work, full of bugs, but is used for all important announcements, so most are missed.
