The class diary

Academics → My teaching → Class diary is the weekly book a class teacher keeps for one class: what was taught each day, a note home about each child, and the parent’s signature coming back.

It is one week per class at a time. A week belongs to a class and a stream, starts on a Monday, and moves from draft to published when it is ready for parents to read.

Note

The diary used to sit under Communication. It moved to Academics because the person who writes it is the class teacher, and gating it behind the send-SMS permission meant most class teachers could not open it. Nothing about the weeks already recorded has changed.

Starting a week

New Week asks for the class and stream, the Monday the week begins on, and a label — Term 3 • Week 2 reads better on a parent’s phone than a date.

Each weekday starts with three empty learning-plan rows: subject, book, exercise and page. That is the homework record. Fill what was actually set; a blank row prints blank rather than pretending.

Writing to a parent

Open the week and pick a pupil. You can write:

• a daily note — one per pupil per day, for the thing that will not wait
• a weekly note — one per pupil for the whole week, written on Friday

Sign what you write. Your signature is what tells a parent the note is finished rather than half-typed.

Publishing

A week is a draft until you publish it. Only published weeks reach parents, so a week you are still filling in is yours alone.

Publishing is also what makes the week signable — a parent cannot sign a draft. Publish on the day you want the book to go home, not at the end of term.

A published week cannot be deleted. Revert it to draft first, which also withdraws it from parents.

The parent’s side

Parents read published weeks in the parent app and sign there. Their comment and signature come back into the same week, beside yours.

A parent signature is the only thing a parent can write. They cannot change the learning plan or your notes.

Printing

Print from the week list or from inside a week:

Print	What you get
Class	Every pupil’s page, one after another
Learning plan	The week’s plan only, no pupil notes
This pupil	One pupil’s page

Printing a class set at the start of the week is how schools that still send a physical book keep both working at once.

If a parent has not signed

Chase the signature, not the diary. An unsigned week usually means the book never went home or the parent has not opened the app — the record itself is intact either way.