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How do I invite parents?

Invite parents to follow their child's progress and submit miles from home.

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Written by Stefanie Ediger
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It's best to invite parents when you roster your participants especially if you have a large number of participants. This can be done through the copy/paste feature or when uploading in bulk

When including parent emails, this no longer automatically sends the parent invitation. These methods now only associate parent‐information with the participant.

To send the parent invitation, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Parents tab in your coach dashboard.

  2. Use the top left checkbox to select all parents (or individually select specific parents).

  3. Click Send Invitation.

You can also invite parents individually at any time.


Invite parents in bulk

  • Upload File by including the parent's email

    • Use the Parent Email column of the spreadsheet to invite the parent.

  • Copy/Paste by entering one parent's email in the parent email column will connect the parent and child and send the parent email invitation.

  • Recruit Tool automatically gives parents the option to create their account

    • After a parent completes the online enrollment form they are directed to check their mail for the invitation to create their account.


Invite parents one by one

To existing participants

  1. Select the Participants tab

  2. Use the table filters or search feature to locate the participant.

  3. Click More Info next to the child's name

  4. Enter parent's name and email address

  5. Select Send Parent Invitation

When adding new participants

You can use Manual Entry/Copy Paste to add parents when you first create your club or while adding a new participant after the club has been created.

  1. Click Add Participants

  2. Select Manual Entry/Copy Paste

  3. Click into the cell to add the name of the new participant and enter the corresponding parent email.


What will parents see when invited?

Steps a parent needs to take to create their account

  1. Parents receive an email from noreply@marathonkids.org

  2. Parents fill out the information for their accounts.

  3. Check their email to validate their account.

  4. Log into their account to accept their role as parents of their child.

Then they are all set to follow their child's progress and submit miles to the coach for approval depending on the club type you set.


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