You have every part of Homebook. This is what each area is for, and the handful of things worth setting up once so they run themselves.
Attendance so far, balances, messages waiting, and anything overdue.
Every record: family, health, documents, support plans.
Whole-school view. A teacher's roll and a parent's absence report both land here.
Enter grades for a class, import scores, print report cards and transcripts.
Under Money. Mark who ate, add fees, see every family balance.
Under Money. Who owes what, and online payment if you turn it on.
Under ⚙ School setup. Closures, breaks, events, and your EFA deadlines.
Under ⚙ School setup. Invite teachers, set roles, approve time off.
Not in app code — in the database. No other school on Homebook can see your records, and we never collect Social Security numbers.
Two features worth ten minutes of your time before the year starts.
⚙ School setup → Classes → Set up many classes. Pick the grades, tap the subjects, choose a teacher, and Homebook creates every class and puts the right students in each one.
Every class has a grading scale. Academic subjects use numbers or letters and count toward GPA. Specials — Art, Music, PE, Library, Bible, Spanish — are usually O / S / N / U, which does not affect GPA. Set it when you create the class and teachers get the right screen automatically.
⚙ School setup → Settings → Front-desk sign in / out. Set a staff PIN, then start it on a tablet or Chromebook at the office. Families sign their own child in late or out early: they pick the student, pick their name from that child's approved list, and add their initials.
Student, date and time, the adult's name, and their initials — the four things an attendance record is normally asked for.
That device is signed in as you. The PIN is what stops a parent tapping out of the sign-in screen and into student records.
Parents manage their own child's pickup list from their portal, and you can add or remove anyone yourself. Ask families to fill theirs in before the first day.