Parents, Family, and Approved Pick-ups | Brightwheel Help Center

Overview: Using brightwheel as a Parent, Family, or Approved Pickup

Get started using brightwheel as any contact type. Brightwheel is a crucial tool to communicate with the provider and watch student progress

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Getting Started for Parents

Sign up for brightwheel as a Student Contact

Create a brightwheel account when invited by a student’s provider to view the student’s profile.

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View Lesson Plans as a Parent or Family Member

Easily look up lesson plans that have been shared with you using your brightwheel mobile app.

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Activities Feed for Parents

Log Health Screens at Home

Complete the Health Screen Questionnaire outside of the check-in flow.

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Subscribe to Daily Reports

Receive a summary of logged activities for connected students via email each day.

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Student Activity Feed

View daily activities, notes, and updates as a student contact and schedule daily feed reports directly from the app.

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Download Photos & Videos

Brightwheel allows users to save photos and videos posted on a student's feed and share directly to social media.

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Uploading Photos as a Parent

Parent contacts can upload photos of activities, milestones, and more!

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Messages and Notifications

Messaging the Childcare Provider

Easily communicate with the staff, admins, and managers at your child's program as a Parent Contact by using brightwheel's Messaging feature

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Push Notifications

Receive notifications whenever a new action or activity is logged on a student’s feed. Notifications can be configured as desired.

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Manage Account and Child Profile

Complete Forms with brightwheel

Contacts with parent-level access can complete and submit paperwork for their provider with brightwheel Forms

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Add Additional Student Contacts

Contacts with Parent permissions are able to add and edit Parent, Family, Approved Pickups, and Emergency Contacts on a student’s profile.

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Remove a Student’s Profile

How a parent contact can remove a student's profile from their account without contacting the program

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Modify Student Contact Login Credentials

How to update the email address and/or phone number associated with a student contacts account

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Using brightwheel as a Student Contact and Staff Member

Learn how to set up accounts so that users who are student contacts and staff members can operate in the two different accounts and roles.

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Switching to a new program

Contacts can access a child’s profile from a new program without losing access to the old profile.

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Brightwheel Billing

Payment Methods and Settings

Add payment method(s), set defaults, and manage the autopay settings to pay student balances in accordance with the program’s policies.

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FSA/HSA/Dependent Care Accounts

Learn how to add FSA/HSA/Dependent Care Accounts as parent payment methods and how to overcome issues you may encounter

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Understanding Statements

Statements operate as a snapshot of all billing-related activities that occurred on a student’s account in the specified billing period

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Parent and Payer Billing FAQs

Review commonly asked questions from parents and payers and the relevant answers

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Who should parents contact with billing questions?

This guide will help parent contacts determine which questions brightwheel can help with and which should be directed to the provider

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