Childcare by Tadpoles Hack 12.9.16 + Redeem Codes

I love the idea, but the app design is horrible. I have to refresh a thousand times to see if anything is put in by another teacher. It looks like this app came out when the iPhone first came out. If I take a photo on tadpoles, it comes out blurry so I have to take it on my phone then upload later, I can’t upload multiple photos for one child at once so that’s more time wasted. Messaging is never refreshed so i have to close the app multiple times to see a parents message. It’s very laggy and should automatically publish daily sheets to parents when it’s put in. The tadpoles parent app is miles better than this one.

I love the idea behind this app and all the families I work with really like it too.

I would have given a 5 star rating but there are a couple of issues I'd like to see improved upon first.

When children age out of a classroom, no matter how many times I change their homeroom in the child profile area,
they revert back to their old homeroom the next day. I've tried doing it on the website as well as the app. I also have a child whose birthday is incorrect and I change that information daily.

I have one other suggestion. If like to see an improvement in the "add photos from album" area. Please introduce a way to select multiple photos to upload for one selected child at once. It would cut my time adding photos to daily sheets in half, at least.

Lastly, the area for observing and evaluations could be better, but I have no specific suggestions on how to do that.

Otherwise, everything about this app is wonderful. It's nice to be able to add photos and videos as observations right away. Parents love the communication and ability to keep them updated during the day. Attendance and name to face have never been easier.

Thanks to the creators.

This app has everything I need for my daily routine in my pre-k class. It is a little glitchy but I love what it includes. It’s impossible to find everything all in one app and trust me I’ve looked at several. I was desperate to find something that was created by someone who understood what a teacher actually needed and I feel I got that with this app. Thank you developer and please keep improvements coming. This app is by far the best Ive found as far as what it includes and is capable of doing. Great job!!

I like the general concept of this app, but it needs a lot of work. The message system glitches every time I try to send a message to a parent. It doesn’t let me see what I’m typing. Also, when trying to tag children in a photo with a certain activity, half the time the activity isn’t there to tag. On children’s daily reports, the font overlaps and you can’t read it sometimes. Lastly, the app should be designed so that every center that uses it has to have real time updates for parents. Otherwise, parents can’t see any info about their child’s activities, meals, diaper changes, etc until the end of the day. This app needs a major update. When will it receive one??

I absolutely love this app. I have used it at the last 2 daycares I worked at. There are a few things that could use to be added. As a director it would be amazing to be able to do billing and as a teacher in the classroom it would be extremely helpful to see if each child has a picture from the classroom (not on the dashboard) over s this app is wonderful and the parents love it too.

The app is great and has so much potential and it used to work so much better about a year ago, but not it always gets hung up on syncing or crashes. The bugs need to be fixed. Many parents are getting daily sheets and time/attendance are a problem when things constantly get stuck. Right now the app isn’t reliable and we are looking at other app options. I was very much team tadpoles until all the recent problems. Also technical support doesn’t help, they put in tickets that never get the root cause actually fixed.

I use to play music on my iPad, while the app was open. Now for some reason It won’t allow me to do both. Plz fix this or tell me how too.

Tadpoles has been a great way to streamline our program over the past two years, but there are some major concerns.
1) Crashes continuously throughout the day.
2) Students will update into incorrect classrooms (infants in Pre-k and not in their actual assigned classroom) or duplicate same student account
3) Great for Teacher to Parent communication but not vise versa.
4) If running 2 tablets on one classroom, roster will not update properly with the online administration account - showing incorrect ratios and attendance
5) 👎👎👎👎👎 After building a curriculum for Two Years, it magically disappeared and is unrecoverable. I am having to input countless hours of work back into recreating a full classroom curricula. ❌ There is no way to back up your curricula to prevent this from happening.

I hate that music stops playing whenever I open the app. Also with the newest update everything is spaced out more making it harder to read the individual profiles, and now it’s glitching and overlapping text when I switch between kids profiles

It wants to force us to login with google account. Asking for my google password. I did login through the computer browser, but the apps are asking for my google account. I just want to check on my daughter why do they want my google account? Go to your computer and login. Be careful people.