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Linking a Family The Family Home Messages From Coaches Your Account Settings What a Family Sees RelatedLinking a Family
A family account shows a parent their child's teams, attendance, schedule and the notes coaches shared with the family.
- Open the player's page and go to Family.
- Enter the parent's email and click Invite a Parent. Coach Binder emails the link. The page also shows the link once.
- The parent opens the link and logs in or creates an account.
- The parent clicks the Join button on the page that opens. The child then appears on their family home.
- Parents
- A parent can link several children. A child can have several parents.
- Players 13 or older
- Invite the player to an account of their own.
- Younger players
- Never hold an account.
The Family Home
Shows a family their children, messages, registrations and schedule on one page. Parents and players also have Account Settings.
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- Player cards
- One card per child, with teams, numbers, attendance and the notes coaches shared with the family.
- Details
- Information your organization shares with your family, such as a jersey size. Other families never see your child's details.
- Edit Details
- Opens a form for the details your organization asks families to keep up to date. Click Save Details to keep them. Your child's coaches see each change.
- Working On
- The open goals of your child's active plan, first on the card. Each goal shows its skill area, its target and what the coaches look for at that target. A skill area in a category shows the category's name first. Appears once a coach shares the plan.
- Development Plan
- The goals your child works toward, with targets, dates and statuses. Appears once a coach shares the plan.
- Training
- Lessons, camps and other sessions outside the team schedule. Appears once a coach shares a record.
- Progress
- A chart for each skill area, built only from the assessments a coach shared. Charts sit under the club's category headings. The dashed line is the target of the shared plan's goal. Appears once a coach shares an assessment.
- Skill Ratings
- The date, scores and notes of one assessment. Scores sit under the club's category headings. Each score shows what the coaches look for at that step. Appears once a coach shares the assessment.
- Registrations
- Registrations and signups, with their status, price and whether each is paid.
- Messages
- The newest messages coaches sent to your account. See Messages From Coaches.
- Schedule
- Upcoming events for the children's teams. A canceled event stays in the list, crossed out and marked Canceled. An event a coach marked Private never shows.
- Where
- The rink's name opens a map. The saved address shows under the name.
- Sessions with another group
- A session your child joins through a custom roster, or alone, appears too. A calendar link covers one team. The session does not appear on that team's calendar.
- Calendar buttons
- One button for each calendar a coach shares with families. Each button reads the calendar's name, such as the team's name.
- Adding a calendar
- Click a calendar button and select Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. Click Copy Link for any other calendar app.
Messages From Coaches
Lists the messages your child's coaches sent to your account, newest first. Each message also arrives by email.
- One email per address
- Each family gets its own email. No family sees another family's address.
- On the family home
- The Messages panel shows the 10 newest messages sent to your account. Other families never see them.
- Replying
- A reply to the email reaches a coach on the team. The email names that coach.
- Schedule notices
- A message about a schedule change, such as a canceled practice.
Every email ends with a link to stop message emails from that organization.
- Open the stop link at the bottom of any message email.
- Click Stop Emails. Opening the link alone stops nothing.
- To get message emails again, open the same link and click Start Emails Again.
Your Account Settings
Edits your name, phone, email, password, theme and help. Click the account icon at the top right of any page. On a phone, click Settings in the menu.
- Name
- Your name as your child's coaches see it.
- Phone
- Your phone number. Only your child's coaches and club staff see the number.
- Save Profile
- Saves your name and phone.
- Click Save Email to send a confirmation link to the new address. The change takes effect when you open the link.
- New Password
- Your new password, 12 to 72 characters.
- Confirm New Password
- Enter the new password again. The two passwords must match.
- Theme
- Shows every page light or dark on every device you use. System uses each device's own setting. Click Save Appearance to keep the theme.
The theme switch at the bottom of the menu saves the same theme. Another device shows a new theme on its next page.
- Help Column
- Starts the Help column open or closed on every page. Click Save Help to keep the setting.
- By Screen Width
- Starts Help open on a wide screen and closed on a narrow screen, whatever your organization chose.
- Help Sections
- Starts each Help section closed or open on every page. A closed section shows only its title.
- Organization Default
- Uses the setting your organization chose.
What a Family Sees
A family sees only what a coach shared.
| Item | What a Family Sees |
|---|---|
| Their own child | Teams, numbers, attendance and photo. The birth year at most, never the full date. |
| Other children | A roster name and number at most. |
| Notes | Only notes shared with staff and family. A shared event note that mentions no player reaches every family at that event. A note that mentions players reaches only their families. |
| Development | Only the plans, assessments and training records a coach shared, on their own child's card. |
| Details | The fields your organization shares with families, for their own child. |
| Messages | Only the messages sent to their own account. |
| Schedule | Every event their children are at, through any roster attached to the event. Never an event marked Private. |
| Everything else | Nothing. Captures, the inbox, staff notes, private notes, contacts and practice plans stay with staff. |
Related
- Notes and Visibility, Who Reads a Note Sharing a note with a family.
- Programs, Registration and Public Pages, Registration Settings Registrations a family makes.
- Share Links and Public Pages, Public Pages Public pages anyone can open.