Set up your school

Create your school, add its grades, then add classes with rooms.

Practice first if you like. In the app, this walkthrough can run in practice mode with a sample school, so nothing is saved to a real account. If you’re not signed in, practice mode is the only mode.

Step by step

Where: School setup.

  1. Set up your school

    You’ll be the school’s owner. Ponder checks every school before it can invite parents, usually within a working day.

  2. School name

    Type your school’s name.

  3. Type of school

    Pick primary, secondary or tertiary. Ponder suggests the usual year levels for you. Add your suburb and state too.

  4. Create school

    Tap “Create school”.

  5. Grades

    Setup has five steps. Open Grades.

  6. Add year levels

    Add the usual grades in one tap. You can also type a custom one, like Kindy.

  7. Classes

    Now open Classes.

  8. Class name

    Type a class name.

  9. Grade

    Link the class to one of your grades.

  10. Room

    Add a room if it helps families and teachers find the class. It’s optional.

  11. Add the class

    Tap “Add class”.

  12. Your classes

    Once teachers have joined, assign them with “+ Teacher”. Next: invite your teachers.

School setup in practice mode: the five setup steps, pending verification, and a class 4B added under Classes. (open the full-size screenshot)
On a computer, in practice mode with sample data. Select the picture to see it full size.