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On Famly, you can assign a status to both staff members and children throughout the day to reflect what they've been up to. You can choose from a list of default statuses, or you can create you own custom statuses.
How to make a Custom Status
To add a Custom Status for your center:
Click on Settings from your sidebar
Select Classrooms then Custom statuses
From here, choose an icon, color, and name for your custom status
Choose whether you want your status to appear in the Activity feed (for children)
Click Save new status
You can assign a Status to children to record (and share with the child's parents) what they're doing. The Statuses assigned to children appear around their photo in the Overview, and also appear in their Activity tab on their profile. Parents can choose to receive a notification when their child's status changes.
Any statuses added to a child will show as a badge on or around their profile picture in the Overview. Meals, toilet visits, hand washing, (sun)cream, and temperature checks will appear in small icons around children's profile pictures. Sleeps, sickness, holidays, and custom statuses will show on top of the children's profile pictures.
Information about children's check-in and out times, nap durations, allergies and dietary requirements, and whether they are going home with another child are underneath their profile pictures.
For staff members, custom statuses will appear over their profile pictures in the Overview. Their check-in and out times are displayed underneath.
Add a Status
For children:
From the Overview, select a classroom and click on the child's profile picture (you can also select multiple children to add a status to more than one child at once). A box will appear on the right with a number of icons. Click the Status icon and choose a status for the child from the preset statuses or your custom statuses below.
For staff:
From the Overview, select a classroom and click on the employee's profile picture (you can also select multiple staff members to add a status to more than one employee at once). A box will appear on the right with a number of icons. Click the Status icon and choose a status for the employee from the preset statuses or your custom statuses below.
To remove a custom status, follow the same steps and click the status you chose earlier. Re-clicking the custom status will remove it.
How do I Delete an Incorrect Status?
Incorrect statuses can be removed from the child's profile in the Activity tab. Just hover over the status and click the 'x' that appears to remove it:
Sometimes, the 'x' will not appear as the status happened in the past. This is often the case for vacation or sick day statuses, where you will only be able to remove future vacation or sick day dates from the Activity tab. If you'd like to remove a past incorrect vacation or sick day, you can do so in the Attendance report:
Click on the Attendance icon in your sidebar and select Child attendance
Toggle to the relevant week
Open the drop-down menu for the relevant classroom
Find the child showing an incorrect vacation or sick day and click the cell it's in to expand
Click the trashcan icon to remove the vacation or sick day
If you accidentally change a child's status to sick or on vacation, the child will automatically be checked out of the center. As well as following the steps above to remove the status, you will need to ensure the child is checked back in!
Statuses in the Activity Feed
The Activity tab on a child's profile will show their statuses (in the order in which they were applied), along with a timestamp. You can also update a child's status from here, by clicking Add and then choosing a status from the drop-down.
Activity statuses will be added in real-time by default, but if you'd like to add a past activity, you can edit the date, time, or both for most activities whilst adding them.
