Ability to lock children to locations

34 votes

Prevent parents from checking their 4 year old into a 5 year old room if the 4 year old room is full.

Done Suggested by: Keith (20 Apr, '21) • Upvoted: 24 May • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

28 Jul, '21
Bradley
Yes, this feature is definitely needed! We have multiple services and have parents checking children into the incorrect service and/or classrooms. Since we have the ability to update a location using the Admin Console, even if the location was locked...we could still make any necessary changes in real time. Please, please...this feature would be a great addition and much needed improvement!
10 Aug, '21
Roni Armstrong
Yes! This would help us keep our classes straight and take out operator error.
10 Aug, '21
John
"Allow KidMin Team to Organize Kids into Pre-set (locked) class "locations."" (suggested by Logan Jaks on 2021-08-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

Description: It would be helpful if our staff could assign kids to specific classes (or "locations") in KidCheck rather than allowing parents to select which "location" their student belongs to. Most of the time this is ignorance rather than defiance but it would be much easier to take it out of the parents hands completely.
22 Feb, '22
Debbie Kubish
I would love to see this update and the sooner the better! We have a few preschool locations that are difficult to determine the correct selection without knowing our definitions for age grouping so it would be helpful to have the correct location automatically pre-selected as the preferred option.
24 Mar, '22
David Love
I agree with all that has been said! I have requested this for the past four years! When you have multiple service times and parents come to different ones, they just hit the green button and don't even look where their child is checked in at. Plus the preschool parents try and move their child up to the next class on their birthday vs. waiting until we promote all the kids up so it throws off the balance of the classes.
30 Apr, '23
Heath
Definitly needed! With parents able to check in on their own (and even staff check ins if busy or training), OFTEN kids are check into the wrong classes... no matter how easily the classes are labeled. Being able to lock kids into certain classes would help prevent accidently checking kids into the wrong class.
I would add, that for us, the lack of this feature creates a safety risk in the event of an emergency. Being able to assign kids to a class during a period would be amazing and help staff greatly!
09 Aug, '23
Logan Jaks
This capability is now offered through event registration and it was VERY helpful for childcare at our church's last conference. Would love to see this implemented for templates as well!
12 Dec, '23
heather
Completly agree this needs to be a feature! We have parents check in to the wrong classes EVERY SERVICE! This becomes incredibly frustrating as we have different ages in different buildings and no single point of entry. We ulimately have kids checked out of classes and then are scrambling to attempt to get kids checked in by their classroom teachers thus parents do not have tags that match their kiddos.