Playground School Management Reviews

Playground has one of the best interfaces i’ve come across. It’s incredibly seamless to communicate with parents and vice versa, and hosts an array of features that are lacking in other applications. More than that, they have fantastic customer support for on-boarding and any questions one may have. Cannot recommend enough!

There are many apps out there that do this same thing so it’s not the BEST. I appreciate being able to chat with teachers easily and parents. That’s the only gain I’ve had with it. But coming from another app to this one for our school, it has a lot more gaps than gains.

When multiple kids, the switch process is not efficient. Don’t even see which kid you’re switching to/from. It should list child’s name.

When you get a notification badge on PlaygroundSchoolManagement , there is NO visibility to what is new information in PlaygroundSchoolManagement . And with more than one kid, the frustration compounds.

When there are attached documents in the feed for a kid, like lesson plans, you can’t zoom in to read them. You have to download everything to your phone to then see what you need to see.

Work through these topics and you’d have a very worthy app.

PlaygroundSchoolManagement has changed the way we view preschools! As a parent we feel so much more connected and involved in our child’s school and everything from pick-up/ drop-off to communication with the teachers has been amazing! Thank you playground!

I love how easy it is to change my pickup schedule or authorize new guardians. PlaygroundSchoolManagement is super simple and looks awesome. My favorite feature is the ability to create play dates - makes signing out way more convenient. Hats off to the developers.

Our school needed something touchless but easy for families and teachers. THIS was it!! We love PlaygroundSchoolManagement! Helped us save $130,000 per year which we now put back into teacher salaries.

We are a large center that needed an upgrade. Playground was easy to use and train staff on use. Customer service has been spectacular.

The Playground app is incredibly informative, organized, and it’s easy to use. You’re a click away from finding what you need. Two 👍👍 up!

This made my pick up and drop off so much more pleasant. Thank you playground team

This was a great app the first few days then it started logging me out in the middle of checking in/out or after the signature it starts loading and it takes a while and just shuts down. I’ve tried deleting PlaygroundSchoolManagement and reinstalling and same thing. Could definitely be better.

Love the application. Highly recommend. Every school in the world should have this.

Surprisingly simple app, I didn’t realize we needed PlaygroundSchoolManagement until we tried it out.

This has helped make our preschool so organized. The families and our staff could not be happier.

Always get a blank white screen while I use the sign out feature. Would have to uninstall and reinstall app for it to work again.

Had to do this 5 times in the last 2 months

Simplifies what was previously a major headache. App is easy to use, works perfect so far

Very easy to use as a parent. Playground made dropping my kid off a breeze!

Carpooling made simple, an awesome app that does a great job!

This is the best childcare app on the market. I highly recommend.

My kid loves this playground

Playground has a QR code feature that helps us keep everybody social distanced and keeps our lines moving. We printed QR Codes and put them on tables outside our gate and parents come up 3 at a time to sign in. It’s been surprisingly easy to do it this way and many of our parents actually prefer this way.

Please fix the delay between scanning a QR code to sign in/out and being able to sign and complete the process. It kills me every time at pick up.

Having used several similar apps, this one is fine. My 2 cents … PlaygroundSchoolManagement experience needs attention. Having to pull down on screens (pull to refresh) for updated info is outdated.

Most annoying though, PlaygroundSchoolManagement badge won’t reset u less PlaygroundSchoolManagement is closed and reopened.

It works, it’s just a little too legacy as is.

Using the limited photo library setting as playground shouldn’t need access to the thousands of photos on my phone just to send a single photo of a missing item to a teacher via the chat.

Each time it insists that it doesn’t have any library access at all and tells me to enable access or reinstall PlaygroundSchoolManagement .

Reinstallation doesn’t fix it either, it still wants full access to all my photos.

Next step is to report this to Apple - updates that block basic iOS privacy features just shouldn’t be allowed.