What's a Status in Famly?
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 Classroom Overview (Home → Overview), for staff awareness.
Statuses also appear in a child's Activity feed (Child Profile → Activity) for parents to be updated in real-time, and for staff to see as well.
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 Room Overview. Meals, toilet visits, hand washing, (sunscreen/diaper) cream, and temperature checks will appear in small icons around children's profile pictures. Naps, sickness, vacation, 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.
How can I create Statuses in Famly?
To add a Custom Status for your site:
Settings → Classrooms → Custom Statuses
See existing custom statuses
Click
Add new status
Choose whether you want your Status to appear in the Activity feed (most often, this is turned ON)
Turning this setting on will display your custom statuses in each child’s activity feed alongside all other activities. If turned off, statuses will only be visible to staff and managers in the Overview page.
Click Save new status
Please note, that you can only have up to 7 custom statuses at a time.
How do I change the Status of a child?
From the room overview, click on the child's profile picture and a black box will appear on the right with a number of icons. Click the Status icon, and you can now register the child as any of the Statuses you have chosen for your site / classroom.
How do I remove 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:
☝️ Note: The 'x' will not appear for attendance-related statuses that happened in the past. If you'd like to remove a past incorrect holiday or sick day, you do so in the Attendance Report:
Click on the Attendance → Child attendance
Toggle to the relevant week
Open the drop-down menu for the relevant room
Click on the attendance of the child whose status you want to change (as below)
Click the 🗑️ trash icon to remove the vacation/sick day
PLEASE NOTE: If you change a checked-in child's status to 'sick' or 'vacation' or forget to check them out by the end of the day, the child will automatically be checked out of the site and their status will show as Checked out by Famly. 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 on a child's profile will show a child's 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' 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 while adding them.
