Parent Observer View in C4E

[adam_wiseman]

We have noticed in the web-based view on an observer account, that observers cannot see their child's grades. Also, the "Schedule" button shows up like it does for a teacher user and just says "Teacher Schedule Preview" of how students will see their schedule. Can this be fixed so that parent observers can see grades view and schedule view?

[erinhmcmillan]

Hi, Adam!

Parent Observer support is coming in Q4. Watch for an update from our product managers in their weekly updates.

Thanks,

Erin

[dsauthoff]

More thoughts on the Parent Observer account : For parents who have students in secondary AND elementary, the layout for the parent is the elementary view (which is causing some parents stress)   and they are unable to change the tile color for their different students the way we have taught them to easily see which courses belong to which of their students.  This is an important fix for helping parents with Canvas.  

[audra_agnelly]

Agreed @dsauthoff I was thinking about this today. With course nickname and color overlay gone, parents with multiple children are going to be frustrated with their dashboard. "Friendly name" will help and I'm super-excited about the drop-down menu demoed in the blog post a couple weeks ago, but neither feature is in the production environment, and I haven't seen any dates for their release yet. Hopefully we get those features for parents soon.