Brightwheel is the #1 software solution for preschools, child care, daycare, camps, and after school programs. Brightwheel is the only app that integrates everything you need: sign in/out, messaging, learning assessments, daily sheet reports, photos, videos, calendars, online bill pay for parents, and much more. Brightwheel lets you manage your center, streamline workflows, and engage with parents, so you can save time and money, make life easier for your staff, and improve satisfaction for your parents. Join the thousands of preschools, child care, and daycare programs across the globe that have fallen in love with brightwheel! PRESCHOOLS / CHILD CARE / DAYCARE / CAMPS: Manage your students and classrooms, track attendance and room ratios, share photos and videos, assess learning milestones, communicate with parents, send paperless invoices and payments, review daily sheets, and manage staff. Brightwheel is your all-in-one child care and daycare management app! PARENTS: Engage in your child’s day with a real-time feed of photos, videos, reminders, and updates. Use brightwheel’s digital check-in to securely sign in and out, pay tuition online, and even invite grandparents, nannies, and friends to join in the fun! Features include: • Central Database: Store everything related to kids and families in one secure place. • Student Check-In: Multiple digital check-in options available including digital signatures, 4 digit check-in codes, and a kiosk mode - all aligned with child care licensing requirements. • Staff Check-In & Ratios: Make administrative tasks easier by managing staff check-in to see your ratios across all your rooms in real time. • Attendance: Easily log attendance and absences for your school-age students, infants, and toddlers. Use our attendance tracking system to keep track of your toddlers. • Photo and video sharing: Snap photos, record videos and tag students with one click. Automatically saved to your account and shared with parents (with no extra work!). • Daily Sheet Reports: Log naps, meals, bathroom, and other activities. Parents get a feed and daily summary. Daily sheet reports are a breeze with brightwheel. • Assessment & Observations: Make note of progress, achievements, and activities with pre-loaded state standards and a DRDP tool. Share with parents or privately amongst teachers. • Student Feed: Parents get a personalized feed throughout the day. Save time – no more paper tracking sheets or sending individual photos. • Parent Communication: Manage parent communication from one central hub (notices, calls, texts, etc.). • Calendar: Share events, holidays, and important dates with both families and staff. • Paperless Billing: Seamless electronic billing and payments for tuition and fees. Use brightwheel for all your child care accounting needs. • Reporting: Detailed reports of every brightwheel feature for billing and licensing requirements. • Seamless Sync: Brightwheel stays up to date across all phones and tablets – so teachers can use their own device or a school device. • Web Portal: Easy management and great functionality available on the web, too. • Affordable. Both free and premium plans available to fit your needs.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 4.6.90 posted on 2020-11-16
Stability and performance improvements. - Version 4.6.80 posted on 2020-10-29
Coming soon! Admins will soon be able to add a custom health questionnaire to staff check-in. - Version 4.6.71 posted on 2020-09-17
Coming soon: Staff Quick Scan Check-in! You can provide your staff with a contactless check-in option by having them sign in from their own mobile devices to minimize the spread of germs. - Version 4.6.61 posted on 2020-08-28
Rolling out to your school in the next few days: Admins can log Health Checks to track temperature of their staff members upon arrival or throughout the day to proactively monitor staff health. - Version 4.6.51 posted on 2020-08-18
Staff messaging will be available soon! Admins can easily share updates and coordinate instantly with staff through group messages for each room. Keep an eye out for it coming soon. - Version 4.6.40 posted on 2020-08-10
Schools, we've made improvements to check-in signatures to ensure it's enabled for your entire school when you have the setting turned on. - Version 4.6.30 posted on 2020-06-23
To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, schools will soon be able to add a health screen questionnaire as part of the student check in experience! Keep an eye out for it this week. - Version 4.6.18 posted on 2020-05-14
We've added the ability to log a new Health Check activity, which can be used by admins & staff to track and monitor student health. - Version 4.6.7 posted on 2020-02-27
We've made improvements to our messaging tool to better support longer messages. You can now create a new line of text or start a new paragraph. - Version 4.6.4 posted on 2020-01-17
We've made a few improvements to the app. It will now be easier to select which students are in photos that you post. Also, we've improved the layout for check in on phones. - Version 4.6.1 posted on 2019-12-10
The check-in kiosk is getting a brand new look! It will work exactly as it does today, but we are updating the screen to make it even easier for parents to check in their children. Coming soon to your school! - Version 4.5.10 posted on 2019-11-04
Admins - we heard you! We added new reminder types for medication, naps, potty and name to face. - Version 4.5.9 posted on 2019-10-24
Performance and stability improvements. - Version 4.5.7 posted on 2019-10-07
Admins, easily set the maximum desired ratios for all your rooms on one screen by clicking the gear icon on the Room Check screen. Once you’ve set desired ratios, you will receive notifications when a room is out of ratio! - Version 4.5.6.6 posted on 2019-10-03
Admins - this update is for you! You can now set a maximum ratio for a room and be alerted if a room is out of ratio. You can set a maximum ratio and a capacity in room settings, accessible from the ‘students’ tab by tapping on the gear icon in the top right corner. - Version 4.5.6.5 posted on 2019-09-26
Admins - this update is for you! You can now set a maximum ratio for a room and be alerted if a room is out of ratio. You can set a ratio and a capacity in room settings, accessible from the ‘students’ tab by tapping on the gear icon in the top right corner - Version 2.3.18 posted on 2017-01-11
v2.3.18:,- Fix a bug when uploading photos.,v2.3.15:,- Change Rooms: easily move a student from one room to another without notifying parents by long pressing that student on the Check-In screen. - Version 2.3.15 posted on 2016-12-22
v2.3.15:,- Change Rooms: easily move a student from one room to another without notifying parents by long pressing that student on the Check-In screen.
Program Details
- Category: Education > Teaching & Training Tools
- Publisher: brightwheel
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: 4.7.3
- Platform: android