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How Bowerstead works, in the order you meet it. Start at the top if you’re new. If you already know what you’re looking for, the sections below go from setting up a year to handing someone a finished record.

Start here

What the app is for, and the first few minutes of using it.

  1. What Bowerstead does

    The shape of the app, and what it deliberately isn’t.

  2. Your first ten minutes

    Signup, your first child, and the one thing worth doing today.

  3. School years, and moving between them

    How years are kept apart, and what happens when you start a new one.

Planning your year

Subjects, terms, and a weekly rhythm you can change any time.

  1. Subjects, terms, and your weekly rhythm

    Setting up the plan, and why it never grades you.

Capturing as you go

Saving evidence that learning happened, in a few taps.

  1. Capturing work

    Notes, photos, and grades, and what updates itself afterwards.

  2. Capturing offline

    What happens with no signal, and how to read the messages.

Records and exports

Attendance, grades, and the documents you hand to someone else.

  1. Attendance and instruction days

    How days are counted, and how to add one the app missed.

  2. Grades, GPA, and the transcript

    Grading scales, averages, and how the transcript is built.

  3. Exporting records

    The documents you can produce, and what each one is for.

If this didn’t answer it

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