Family, church & platform

Parent dashboard & child safety

Link to your quizzer, handle guardian consent once, and follow their season from a family timeline, on a platform with child-safe defaults baked in everywhere.

Built for parents · coaches

The feature

What is it?

Handing your kid an app shouldn't feel like a leap of faith. The parent dashboard gives you a real seat at the table: a family action plan that tells you exactly what to do next, a card for each linked quizzer with safe, read-only progress summaries (due reviews, weekly study minutes), and a per-child family timeline that walks the whole road: invitation delivered, invitation accepted, guardian verified, consent given, cleared to go.

Consent here is the real thing, not a checkbox you scroll past. A parent, legal guardian, or someone else with documented legal authority states that relationship and completes guardian verification. Then every child gets their own consent request, one that records the exact legal version you reviewed and every acknowledgement you made. And an invitation alone never turns on a child's access. That takes approved guardian verification, active consent evidence, and you explicitly activating the relationship. Change your mind later? You can revoke consent right from the parent dashboard.

We also start kids on the strictest settings, not the loosest. Recite-aloud is unavailable for child accounts, period, and it's preset off for teens unless a verified guardian turns it on. Child leaderboards fail closed: no proven team or organization membership, no board. And account access itself is gated by legal-clearance state. We'll be honest about the edges, too: a few policy rows (match-room scope, quiet hours, and daily pacing) are stored or displayed presets today, not yet fully enforced while the app runs. And when something needs a human, a support panel files a bounded family request and strips anything that looks like a token or an email address out of the summary before it's sent.

  • A family action plan that tells you your exact next step, no digging
  • Read-only progress summaries for each child: due reviews and weekly study minutes
  • Guardian verification tied to a real parent, legal guardian, or other documented legal authority
  • Per-child consent requests that record the legal version and every acknowledgement you made
  • Child access takes verification + consent + activation, never just an invitation
  • Revoke consent any time; you'll type your child's name to confirm
  • Strict defaults: recite-aloud unavailable for kids and off for teens until a verified guardian allows it, child leaderboards scoped to their team, access gated on legal clearance

Step by step

How you'll use it

If you're a parent

Your daughter joined the quizzing team Sunday, and the coordinator's family invitation is sitting in your inbox. Here's what Monday looks like.

  1. Open your invitation

    Accept the invitation from your email and open the parent dashboard. The pending link request for your quizzer is already waiting, and the family action plan spells out exactly what to do next: no guessing, no hunting through menus.

  2. Verify you're the guardian

    Complete guardian verification: state your relationship and follow the approved verification path. Until that verification is approved, your child's access stays closed. Full stop.

  3. Grant consent, per child

    Every child gets their own consent request. Read the legal version, check off the acknowledgements, and submit. The dashboard keeps a record of exactly what you agreed to.

  4. Activate the link

    Once verification and consent are both approved, you activate the relationship. That's the moment your quizzer's access actually goes live, not a second before.

  5. Follow along, and stay in charge

    Peek at the family timeline and the read-only summaries (due reviews, weekly study minutes) whenever you're curious. And if you ever need to pull back, revoking consent is right there on the dashboard; you'll type your child's name to confirm.

If you're a coach

Every minor on your roster deserves a grown-up in the loop. Here's how you make sure that's actually true.

  1. Send parent invites

    Invite a parent for each minor straight from your coach dashboard. The invitation lands on their parent dashboard as a pending link with the consent request already attached, one less thing for you to chase down.

  2. Watch guardian-link status

    Your roster shows guardian-link status for every quizzer, so a kid without a verified grown-up stands out at a glance instead of slipping through the cracks.

  3. Unstick stuck invitations

    The parent dashboard shows delivery, acceptance, and resend status for each invitation, so when a mom says the email never came, you can see exactly what happened and follow up without guessing.

  4. Answer 'is this safe?' with specifics

    When a parent asks, you can give real answers instead of a shrug: recite-aloud is unavailable for children and stays off for teens unless a guardian turns it on, child leaderboards are scoped. And, being upfront, match-room, quiet-hour, and pacing controls aren't fully enforced yet in this pre-release stage.

Quick questions

Good to know

How does a parent connect to their quizzer's account on Memr.is?

Through a three-part flow. The parent or legal guardian accepts a family invitation, completes the approved authority-verification process, and submits a child-specific consent request that records the legal version and every acknowledgement. Only then is the relationship activated; an invitation by itself never creates child legal clearance.

What child-safety protections are built into Memr.is?

Several, and they're on by default. The current product gates minor account access on guardian clearance, makes recite-aloud unavailable for children and keeps it off for teens until a guardian turns it on, masks child names, and fails child leaderboards closed unless team or organization membership is proven. The Minor Protections Policy explains the additional restrictions around match-room scope, quiet hours, daily pacing, retention, and deletion.

What can a parent actually see about their quizzer?

Safe, read-only summaries: due reviews, weekly study minutes, and a per-child family timeline that runs from invitation through consent and clearance. It's built for cheering, not surveillance: enough to celebrate real progress without watching every tap, and private evidence and delivery material are never shown.

Can a parent withdraw consent later?

Yes, at any time. From the parent dashboard, a parent can revoke consent for a child; the dashboard asks them to type the child's name to confirm, and parent-granted authority for that child is then disabled.

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