Classlist: connecting parents
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Classlist: connecting parents reviews
4.0 out of 5, based on 100 reviews.
What people like
- Helps parents connect and make friends
- Easy to find who is in which class
- Great for selling event tickets and raising money
What they complain about
- Keeps logging you out constantly
- App runs very slowly and lags
- Hard to find old posts or info
Giola
Love the polling feature in the latest update .
Non functional maps
Maps function does not work - doesn’t narrow down by class, just shows the whole school, so a sea of pins.
Great app for streamlining PTA comms
Helps make event admin a breeze although a little clunky in places (not being able to adjust/turn off the questions associated with tickets is a bit annoying!) Would be great if the platform was available in other languages!
Basic and no webapp available
Loads of annoying ads. Highly irritating that you have to take up precious space on your phone to use it. They should make a webapp available.
It’s ok… but lots of quality of life issues that make you wonder if they actually use it themselves
So the apps a nice concept and overall they’ve build something very useful. But this app makes me want to scream more than most. You have to login Every. Single. Time. And there’s no Face ID or Touch ID - it’s not that hard to add. Notifications don’t take you to the right place. Etc etc. Just a frustrating experience to use really.
Great app for school communication
Classlist makes it very easy to stay connected with the school community. The app is simple, useful, and helps parents keep up with events, messages, and updates. Really helpful for staying informed.
Awful
I have just deleted this app after months of complaining about irrelevant emails. It seems that the whole school can be messaged from one person who has lost a jumper. This is really not helpful for a working parent who already has too many emails!! I have asked for help to turn off notifications from the school, all of my notifications are off and I am still getting these irrelevant messages. Not a fan!
A really helpful free tool for PTAs
We feel it’s really effective as a platform. There could be more options for maintaining confidentiality with the guest lists.
Clunky app
UX average, has some errors, annoying to use.
Wokery vs. Tots
Didn't really appreciate being asked to specify my pronouns, or being invited to say if both of my young sons had no gender. So a slightly offputting sign-up, unless you're into trans ideology for children, in which case you'll love it.
Thanks
very helpful
A cause of stress for users
1. Whenever I click on the photos it crashes - I hope a reinstall will do the trick. 2. Difficult to switch schools because my two children are in different schools that both use the app. 3. Everyone prefers WhatsApp - at a push I would prefer if Facebook made a separate encrypted schools section as they would probably do a better job.
Invaluable
Really useful as both a parent and PTA committee member. The parent /child finder is often invaluable when you either can't remember parent names (but your child can tell you their child name) or to check which class /year a child /parent is in. As PTA we now use the events function for all events including ticket sales for fête workshops and activities. The biggest challenge is getting new parents to tailor their notifications so they don’t feel bombarded with too many (eg choosing to limit it to a weekly round up) The support help is always super responsive when we have a query too, and they are always open to ideas to improve. Getting better steadily.
Not a fan of the update.
This app was great- both as a parent and a teacher it was a really lovely way to check in with what’s happening at school. Since the update I have a few issues: 1) Now when creating a post, for some reason I can only select one photo at a time. If I want to upload lots of photos to show parents this now takes double the time. 2) The photos I upload crop out lots of the picture automatically! I’m not sure why this is, but it’s really annoying. I want the whole picture to be on the post, not just part of it! It means when uploading photos, they have to be the correct orientation or I miss off half the photo. 3) It seems to take much longer to create a post now! I’m not sure why, but again it is since the update. I love this app and use it a lot, but I find the update really unhelpful in the ways mentioned above.
No search function
With hundreds of posts made daily it is impossible to find the information you need without a search function. That recommendation for a mouthguard/cake maker/shoe shop you saw 2 weeks ago - you’ll need to scroll through all the posts to find it again.
Easy to use and good value.
Classlist is easy to administer and use by parent. The fees for ticket booking and raffles are good value.
Not an user friendly app
This app is rather painful to use. It is mainly an email like bullhorn as it does not have any additional useful function. It is moody in terms of logins, difficult to create separate groups, does not update properly. Not quite sure why schools would pay for it, a waste of valuable funds.
Really good
Great app - would be useful to have the option to add photos to a post in a gallery format.
App needs more work
The presentation of the home page is not great. More user testing and feedback is needed! Announcements groups and events need equal prominence not defaulting to groups. Please can you make events easier to find. Please can you also address the link to event function? It works if you’re looking at Classlist online but not in the app. We’re disappointed that we can’t signpost people directly to community events this way.
Needs more
It’s a great app. I’m one of the admins as chair of the pta. I find it a bit restrictive and wish that we are able to do a lot more in terms of attachments, providing links and graphics. Also find that app is way too slow and often have trouble getting in. The concept is great but there is scope for making it even better.
Useful app
We’ve been using the app for a number of years. Great way to engage with you school community. Love the events and fundraising ability of the app too. Would recommend. We’d be lost without it
Terrible app
The UX is poor, especially switching between the Admin and Parent views. It’s really buggy and often requires a reinstall to overcome issues. I wouldn’t go near the app but, unfortunately, it’s being imposed on us by the school my children go to. It feels like it’s been designed and built by people who’ve never worked with mobile apps before.
Useful app, some processes cumbersome
This app is useful but not perfect. It takes too many clicks to search for a parent, a search bar should appear by default that you can start typing in straight away when you go to contacts. It often freezes up and I have to delete and reinstall it on my phone to get it working again. Log in by fingerprint ID is good and works well. It’s hard to find events and hard to find a post again if you look at it quickly but then don’t know if it was a post or an event. In the admin side, it would be useful if you could publish an event but hold back ticket sales until a set day and time, so the event can go live before sales do. If there was an easy to see chat section that might help it to overtake WhatsApp in popularity, but so far it hasn’t as people find it too long winded to find things. But overall very useful and has helped connect parents who otherwise would never have got to know each other.
New version bug?
I haven’t had this app for long, but since the new update my different message boards and pages just keep loading and never actually populate. I’m not able to ever read my new messages or respond. Help?
Simple to use
It is really effective and easy app
Keeps logging me out and then not recognising my email address
I like the app when it works but frequently when I click a notification it opens the app and then I’m logged out. When I enter my credentials it tells me the email address is not recognised. I can log in on the web with the same credentials so I know it works. Advise from support it to remove the app and then reinstall which is not really a solution
A great solution for parent contacts
We launched this last year after GDPR came in. It was a good solution and avoids any issue with data use. It enables you to contact parents that you might organise not have contacts for. We are about to receive our first cheque for having suggested some local businesses as advertising so we have even raised some funds for the school.
Latest update isn’t good
After the latest update I’m finding it difficult to access my messages. Clicking the bell gives me an overview but reading individual messages and takes a while to get to and then clicking the back button doesn’t go back to the message list. Sep 2022
Very useful for meeting new families
I have found this app really helpful for knowing who is who at school as we were new, having joined a year after most people. It is great seeing both pupil and parent names in the class. I was able to reach out to parents of children living nearby to arrange some play dates to help my son make friends. Also I can see what is on at school in terms of events run by the parents association and other messages about what’s happening. It is a friendly way of getting to know others at school.
Good idea but doesn’t work well
I have lost count of the number of times I have been logged out and find it difficult to get in again. Most of us have stopped using it and moved to WhatsApp instead
Sometimes
When it works it’s great but I find I get issues switching between my admin account & parent account. Sometimes Classlist doesn’t load at all and a message saying reload appears when I open the app
Latest update notification issues
The latest updated has caused the app to permanently display 4 unread notifications, even after marking all as read within the app as well as logging out and back in. Seems no way to clear it.
Awesome PTA app for tickets and comms
Our PTA started using Classlist this term and we love it. Easy to take payments for events, which arrive in our bank account a few days later. Great way to communicate with other parents. Love it!!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Failing
Since the app updated (21 May 23) it refuses to open , just remains on the dots as per the startup screen and never progresses
Problem
Just updated my Classlist app & it now won’t switch from admin to parent. Been working well up to today. Also, all the nicknames I try to use to send this review seem to be taken 🤦🏻♀️
Hard to navigate
Although the idea of Classlist is good , it is very hard to use and navigate . Finding old posts you are looking for is particularly difficult - WhatsApp is far easier
Superb closed parent networking app
We have used this at our school for 5 years with over 1000 parents registered. Fabulous closed network for easy, secure parent to parent networking.
Keeps logging me out.
This app needs fixing quickly, otherwise we’ll have to seriously consider whether we continue our usage as a parent council. Character limits are prohibitive. Copying and pasting is problematic Notifications remain active when they shouldn’t
Good Functionality but a bit slow
The app has got some great functionality but events needs to be more prominent I.e on the home page and it’s a bit slow when switching between features/ modules. Also the iOS app ask for fingerprint verification every time now which again slows down access. This means that we haven’t been able to get parents to move away from WhatsApp as it’s just not as instant to get in and chat
Clunky
It gets the job done but I really don’t enjoy using it.
So useful
This is so useful. Just used it to get contact details of a family I was trying to take my daughter to for a play date. Amazing to have everyone contactable thro app on your phone like this.
Glitchy beyond belief!
What’s with all the glitches?! Drop downs won’t load properly, runs very slowly (the only app on my phone that does) and links just don’t work! Very irritating as the idea is actually good!
Fantastic App
Great way to communicate with other parents and to raise money.
Great concept but clunky
The app is a great concept and much needed in this day and age to simplify school related comms. However it is clunky, slow and could benefit from some UX changes. It’s just not as intuitive as it should be.
Classlist: connecting parents FAQ
- Is Classlist: connecting parents free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 175 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does Classlist: connecting parents have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to Classlist: connecting parents?
- NumBots (4.7 from 20,194 reviews), iParent App (4.4 from 14,531 reviews) and DoodleMath: Elementary Math (4.1 from 8,189 reviews, premium from $7.99).
Classlist: connecting parents download
Last updated 2 months ago.
Classlist: connecting parents sells in 175 countries. It was released 9 years and 8 months ago, on 22 Jan 2017. It holds a 4.0 rating from 100 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
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