Not user friendly
Update failure and redirect me to downland a scam app
Ok but needs improvement
Overall the app is very useful and quick to use. However, when reviewing the weeks bookings (trips, after school clubs, movie nights) not all bookings come up or it comes up blank. If you make a booking in advance the only way you can double check after the fact is by looking in your emails for the confirmation as there’s no set place in the app to see. It would be so much easier to just be able to completely and reliably click on “my bookings” and see per day what has been booked.
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Absolutely terrible
Why any school would chose to use this app/service is beyond me! Do they not read reviews beforehand? It is the WORST app I’ve ever encountered in my life. It never works, the notifications don’t work, it logs you out almost daily and you can’t log back in again because the ‘credentials do not exist’. Then to get that rectified you have to spend time trying to call the school office, explain what’s happened, then they have to do something there end and you have to wait for an email before you can log in again through a link they send you. Honestly it’s the biggest waste of time ever. I am currently locked out again, whilst the debt is going up for school activities because I can’t actually pay for them! Many of us parents nearly missed a trip the other day because there wasn’t a single notification about it and to find out any information you had to click through every option on the app. So many parents are having the same problem. Schools need to stay clear, it’s a waste of time and I imagine very costly for a service they simply can’t deliver. Even if it worked as it should do, it isn’t user friendly and certainly not something grandparents or older caregivers would manage easily.
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Awful
Kicks us out every few days and then it won’t let us update or log in. Completely not fit for purpose.
Can’t now login
Used to work. Now asks for an email that isn’t accepted
Not good
I have no option but use this. As it’s been chosen by the school. But it’s really not good.
Super clunky, difficult to navigate. Not a fan.
Super clunky, difficult to navigate. Not a fan.
Daily logouts
Gotta love this new feature of being logged out daily and then unable to log back in even after changing your password. But hold up, completely uninstalling and reinstalling the app allows you to log back in!
It’s such a good feature it helps waste your time so you have less time to doom scroll the latest Tiks and ‘Grams. Oh wait, time is important to people and they don’t want to waste it trying to book breakfast clubs for the week and trying to fill in simple surveys? Huh… who would have thought?
It’s such a good feature it helps waste your time so you have less time to doom scroll the latest Tiks and ‘Grams. Oh wait, time is important to people and they don’t want to waste it trying to book breakfast clubs for the week and trying to fill in simple surveys? Huh… who would have thought?
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Rubbish
Trying to register won’t let me just tells me to enter my email and password which I don’t have because I’ve not create an account yet won’t let me in.
Rubbish
No option to create an account either through the app or on the website. Utterly useless.
Absolutely useless
Had no issues with this app over the years until the recent update & how you log in. It continuously logs me out everyday. Now it tells me my credentials do not exist and I can’t log in even after password changes. School can’t do anything because it shows I have an account. Needs sorting out asap because I can’t access anything!!!
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Daily logouts
Gotta love this new feature of being logged out daily and then unable to log back in even after changing your password. But hold up, completely uninstalling and reinstalling the app allows you to log back in!
It’s such a good feature it helps waste your time so you have less time to doom scroll the latest Tiks and ‘Grams. Oh wait, time is important to people and they don’t want to waste it trying to book breakfast clubs for the week and trying to fill in simple surveys? Huh… who would have thought?
It’s such a good feature it helps waste your time so you have less time to doom scroll the latest Tiks and ‘Grams. Oh wait, time is important to people and they don’t want to waste it trying to book breakfast clubs for the week and trying to fill in simple surveys? Huh… who would have thought?
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Cant create account
There is no longer a create account page. You download the app and it takes you straight to a login page
No longer works after update
Since the update, notifications won’t disappear when closed, can’t login, school list disappeared
Useful app to manage all the admin in one place!
My kids’ school uses this app for all their comms and payments (it also auto sends to personal email, so we do receive emails too).
Overall it works well. Very easy to make and manage payments using ApplePay, and much easier to scan through old comms, rather than trawling the inbox.
I do think the calendar could be a bit more user friendly, but overall I’d say it’s greatly improved “customer service” from a parent’s perspective for us.
Overall it works well. Very easy to make and manage payments using ApplePay, and much easier to scan through old comms, rather than trawling the inbox.
I do think the calendar could be a bit more user friendly, but overall I’d say it’s greatly improved “customer service” from a parent’s perspective for us.
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Cannot login
Useless, send email to say now have to login with email etc. doesn’t recognise my login details. Try to reset password that also does nothing doesn’t even send email link. School cannot do anything there end yet school spider say I need to speak to school!
Worst timed update
I’d just about got the hang of school spider and its quirks. Now a few weeks off the youngest child finishing primary school so that I won’t have to use it any more, they launch a significant update changing how you log in. In any case this time of year is by far the busiest in terms of school activities, and therefore comms. Why do these changes now? Couldn’t you wait until the summer holidays? I’m locked out for now because the reset password button isn’t doing anything.
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Update notification close button is off screen on launch
As title
Amazing!
One of the best school apps ever
Best parent app of those I have to use
Kids in 3 schools means I have countless apps and an endless pile of email, texts and endless social channels to try and keep up with. I wish schools could just use the one app for everything.
Of the bunch, School Spider seems to be the simplest and has proven the least frustrating to use as it doesn’t seem to be trying to do too much.
Of the bunch, School Spider seems to be the simplest and has proven the least frustrating to use as it doesn’t seem to be trying to do too much.
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Rubbish dojos better
The app doesn’t load, keeps say wrong details when you have to log out for two different schools. It can’t find schools because it keeps erroring. Reset passwords and it doesn’t recognise them. I hate this app I wish schools would adopt a different app. The Worst school app ever invented!
