Playground School Management

After School Development

About this app

Playground features both a parent and admin app.

As a parent you can look at an overview of your children's schedules, create and edit authorized guardians, change your pickup locations, and create playdates.

As an admin you are able to sign students in and out of school using either a classroom roster or through Playground.

Ratings and reviews

I like the clean look, though it doesn't come across as friendly as the previous app my son's school used. It doesn't waste a lot of space, but I'm not able to click on any notifications in order to see more info, though I'm not sure if that's something necessary as I've only received a few short notifications. One thing I don't like is that there's nowhere for me to see the menu or check on what he's eating. Just says "breakfast all" but idk if it's something the teachers are able to do or not.

It does the basics, but there a couple issues that have really bothered me over time. The biggest issue is that the app often gets so slow when I'm typing a message that I have to draft the message in another app and copy it in. The second issue is less of a big deal, but it's also annoying: I have to download pictures to zoom in.

Poorly designed because there is no place to create an account. It started by asking for email and password. But there is no website to set up a password, so most new users will be confused because they have no experience with the app and so no password will have been set up. To bypass this, click 'forgot my password' and then create one.

What’s new

• Added live chat and help center articles directly embedded into the mobile app
• Performance improvements and bug fixes