Brightwheel Help Center

Program Management

Set up and manage your rooms, students, student contacts, staff, and so much more!

Customize your school settings

Room administration

Get started with rooms

Set up out-of-ratio alerts

Add staff & student schedules

Manage rooms_{3 articles}

Student management

Explore student management features in brightwheel

Assign students to rooms

Set a student's enrollment status

Remove students

Transfer students between program locations (for multi-sites)

Manage profiles & fields_{8 articles}

Best practices & FAQs_{2 articles}

Edit students in bulk_{5 articles}

Student contacts management

Add and invite student contacts

Manage student contacts

Understand student contact permissions

Choose if families can edit their child's profile

Enable a Parent Directory for families

Resource directory for managing contacts

Best practices & FAQs_{4 articles}

Staff management

Overview of managing staff

Assign staff to rooms

Understanding staff permissions and roles

Manage staff profiles & accounts_{7 articles}

Set up devices for staff to use_{2 articles}

Bulk actions_{2 articles}

Monitor program activities

Review room feeds and approve activities

Get an overview of program activities on the go (mobile app)

Gain a holistic view of program activities (on the web)

Connect brightwheel to external state programs

Iowa | Share availability through brightwheel

Kentucky | Set up brightwheel for Child Care Search