Free tools: what's here
Available on every plan
Rolling out: if you don't see this yet, it isn't on for your school yet.
The everyday tools that come with Clear Day, where to find them on the web and in the app, and which plans get which.
Clear Day includes a set of small tools for the jobs that eat your week: taking registrations, keeping a waitlist, hearing about absences, filling a sign-up sheet, printing a door sign. They don't need a classroom roster to get started, and most have no cap.
The tools live in two places, and they are not the same list.
On the web: Daily Kit
School admins see Daily Kit in the top navigation. It opens a page of tool cards, grouped Families, The day, Documents and Numbers. Each live card opens its tool and shows a fact, like "3 waiting to accept".
| Card | What it does | Article |
|---|---|---|
| Registration form | A link families fill in on their phone. Submissions wait for you to accept. | Take registrations online |
| Waitlist page | A public waitlist where each family sees its real place in line. | Keep an honest waitlist |
| Absence line | A link families use to say a child is out. | Give families an absence line |
| Sign-up sheets | Conference times, volunteer shifts, potluck and supply lists. | Sign-up sheets and conference slots |
| Lesson planner | Plan your week by dates, keep lesson ideas that aren't tied to a week, and add them to a day. | Plan lessons and keep lesson ideas |
| Printables | Opens the print shop: door signs, notices and other sheets to print. | The print shop |
Some cards are dashed and marked Coming soon. They do nothing yet. Print kit and Supply wishlist are among them. Milestone checklists, the Ouch report writer and the newsletter also show as coming soon on the web, because today they live in the app.
In the app: Tools
Teachers and school admins on Run and Grow open Tools from Today, Rooms or the director home. Tools are grouped Tonight, This week and Anytime, and each row carries a live line, such as "2 out today · 1 not seen yet".
- Absence line opens today's absence reports. See Give families an absence line.
- Ouch report turns what you say into a report and a note for the family. See Write an Ouch report.
- Lesson plan opens next week's plan for your room. On the web, the lesson planner is in Daily Kit. See Plan lessons and keep lesson ideas.
- Milestones opens a room's children and their checklists. See Milestone checklists.
- Newsletter pulls a month together. See Put together a family newsletter.
- Printables opens the print shop in your browser.
Tools shows only what your school has switched on. If none are on, you'll see "No tools here yet".
The app's Tools list is different from Sunny's tools list. Sunny's list is for asking Sunny to do things. This one is for doing the work yourself, with Sunny's help where a tool says so.
Which plans
The web tools work on every plan, including Free. The app's Tools list comes with the classroom side of Clear Day, so it appears on Run and Grow. On Free and Plus, use the web.
Two tools use Sunny to draft: the Ouch report and the newsletter. On Free, each has a monthly count (3 Ouch reports and 1 newsletter), and when it is used up they hand you the plain form instead. Plus has no limit. See Your Sunny tool limits.
Rolling out
Not every school has the tools yet. If you don't see Daily Kit or Tools, they aren't on for your school.
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- Take registrations online
Share one registration link, review what families send, and accept each child onto your roster when you're ready.
- Keep an honest waitlist
Share a waitlist link, put families in your order, and let each family see its real place in line.
- Give families an absence line
Share a link families use to say a child is out, and see today's reports on your home page or in the app.
- Sign-up sheets and conference slots
Make a sheet for conferences, volunteer shifts, a potluck or a supply drive, share the link, and see who signed up.
- Plan lessons and keep lesson ideas
Plan your week by dates you can read, keep lessons that aren't tied to any week, like "The letter B", and add them to a day whenever you're ready.
- The print shop
Print a hiring sign, a closure notice, a welcome sheet, a parent night flyer, a graduation certificate or a field trip reminder, with your school's name already on it.
- Milestone checklists
Tick off what you've seen a child do, add a short note, and print the page for a conference. One snapshot per child, no scores.
- Write an Ouch report
Say what happened in your own words, let Sunny draft the report and a note for the family, then review and print or share them.
- Put together a family newsletter
Pull a month of what families already saw into one page, add your own words, then print it or send it to families.
- Your Sunny tool limits
How many times a Free school can use each Sunny tool each month, what counts, what happens at the limit, and which plans have no limit.
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