For public and private school families
Know what is due before the backpack is unzipped.
Homework, tests, permission slips, grades and the early release nobody remembered, in one place the whole family can see. Your child ticks off their own work, you get the reminder the day before, and the kitchen wall shows what tomorrow needs.
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A school day
From the afternoon they get home to the morning they leave.
3:45 pm · Home from school
Micah’s homework is already on the list.
Homework sorts itself into Overdue, Due today, Due tomorrow and Later. Micah ticks it off on the wall or on his own device and adds anything the teacher said out loud.
With Parent checks schoolwork on, his “done” reads Ready to check until you have looked. You can send it back with a note.
4:10 pm · The kitchen counter
A photo of the assignment sheet becomes the week’s list.
Your second grader brought home a weekly sheet. Take a photo of it and Doorpost proposes each item as a card with its class and due date. You fix anything that was misread, skip what you do not want, and nothing is saved until you say so.
This uses AI, so it works only when AI is on and you have turned on Let AI use the children’s details. How bringing homework in works.
7:30 pm · After dinner
Spelling test tomorrow, and a slip to sign.
The day before a test or quiz, parents get a reminder that it is a good evening to study. The day before a form is due, you get one for that too.
The field trip slip is on your Today with what it needs: sign it, pay for the trip, send it back. Tap Done when it is in the backpack.
7:10 am · Breakfast
The wall says what today needs.
From the afternoon on, the wall shows School tomorrow for each child. In the morning it reads School today: an early release, the test, what is due and what has to go back to school.
If you turn it on, the card also carries a verse in your family’s Bible and one line to pray for that child before they walk out the door.
One question for each child.
In People, Doorpost asks where each child does school during the week. Answer At a school every weekday and choose public or private, and that child gets the school tools on this page.
- All at home
- Lessons from the courses you plan, to tick off on the wall or in the app.
- Attendance, recorded when a lesson is ticked off.
- The gradebook, report cards, a four-year high-school transcript, and your state’s homeschool paperwork prepared for 48 states and the District of Columbia.
- At home, plus a weekly co-op or community day
- Everything a child taught at home gets.
- The co-op day marked on the week as a Co-op day.
- The week's co-op memory work on the wall and in the child's own view.
- At a school some days, at home the others
- You pick the days at the school. Those days get the homework tools and the other days are home days with lessons.
- From the school side: classes, homework, tests, a reading log and report cards.
- From the home side: attendance and the gradebook for the courses you teach.
- At a school every weekday
- A homework list sorted into Overdue, Due today, Due tomorrow and Later, which the child can tick off and add to.
- Tests and quizzes on the family calendar, with a reminder to parents the day before.
- Forms and permission slips to sign, pay or return, grades you log from the school's portal, and teacher contacts.
- The school's days off and early releases, a reading log, a supply list, and report cards you upload or type in.
- Not in school yet
- Nothing to keep up with. School stays out of the way until you change the answer.
Then add the classes with their teachers, and as much or as little of the rest as helps. Nothing has to be filled in before the homework list works.
What is due, what is late and what is coming.
Each child has their own list and sees only their own. Overdue work is shown clearly instead of quietly dropping off, and homework due on a day the school is closed is flagged.
- Tests and quizzes
- A test goes on the family calendar. The day before, parents get a reminder that it is a good evening to study.
- The school’s calendar
- Add days off, early releases and breaks yourself, or point Doorpost at the school’s calendar link and they come in by themselves.
- The reading log
- A book and the minutes, logged from the wall or the child’s device, with weekly totals for the sheet the teacher sends home.
- Points, if you want them
- Finished homework can earn points in your family’s chore rewards. It is off until you turn it on for a child.
Two ways to skip the typing.
Either way, anyone can still add homework by hand, and your child can add their own.
Doorpost has step-by-step directions for Canvas and Schoology, and for Google Classroom and Blackbaud, where the link carries less or the school may have turned it off. We have not found a homework link in PowerSchool parent portal, Infinite Campus, FACTS (RenWeb), Microsoft Teams, ClassDojo and Seesaw, and the app says so when you pick one of them.
The school’s calendar link. Many school systems give each student a private calendar link that lists their assignments. Paste it once and Doorpost shows you what would come in and what would stay out before anything is saved. After that it checks the link a few times a day: new assignments appear on the list, a changed due date is updated, and work your child has already ticked off is left alone. Imported work is marked with where it came from.
A photo of the assignment sheet. For the weekly sheet or the planner page, a parent takes a photo and AI reads the assignments into cards to check. An item with no readable date asks you for one. Possible repeats of homework already on the list are flagged and left unticked. The photo is used to read the page and is not kept. Where AI is used.
Forms and permission slips
The things only a parent can do.
A field trip slip, picture day money, the form that has to be back by Friday. Add it for a child with a due date and tick what it needs: a signature, a payment and the amount, returning it, or something to send in. You can attach a photo of the form or a link to pay.
Forms that are due soon or overdue show on your Today and in your inbox with a Done button, and an undo if you tapped too fast. If the due date falls on a day the school is closed, Doorpost tells you the school day it really has to go in by. Marking a form done is for parents. A child can see their own open forms, so “bring back your slip” is on their screen too.
Write down what the portal says, and see where it is heading.
When you check the school’s portal, log the grade for a class in a few seconds: a percent, a letter, or a mark such as “Meets” for schools that grade that way. Each class shows the latest grade you logged and a plain sentence about the direction since the one before.
These are the numbers you entered, not the school’s official record. Doorpost does not work out a GPA from them. Report cards have their own place: upload a photo or PDF each term, or type the grades in.
Who to call, what was said, and what to buy.
- Teachers
- Each class keeps its teacher, room, email, phone and the best way to reach them. Email and phone are links you can tap.
- School contacts
- The front office, the attendance line, the nurse, the counselor and the bus. With an attendance line saved, a link to call it sits at the top of that child’s school page.
- Conference notes
- What was said at the parent-teacher conference, what you agreed to follow up on and by when. Only parents can read these.
- The supply list
- Paste the school’s list and Doorpost splits it into items with quantities. Mark what you already have and send the rest to a family shopping list. Sending twice does not add anything twice.
The school day where everyone walks past it.
The wall’s School tab leads with a card for each child at a school: whether there is school, an early release, the tests, what is due and what to bring. On a Friday evening it looks ahead to Monday, and it skips days the school is closed. Each child sees their own card on their own screen, written to them. On the wall, forms show what is needed without the amount.
A verse and a prayer for the school day is a switch in Settings, Family, and it is off until a parent turns it on. With it on, the card shows the verse your family is memorizing, or one chosen for a school day when you have none, in your family’s translation and labelled with it. Beside it is one line to pray, written from that child’s real day: tomorrow’s test, the early release, the first day back after a break. No AI writes it. Scripture in Doorpost.
If your family keeps a Sabbath in Doorpost, school stays off the wall that day.
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
Every switch, by name.
| Setting | Where it is | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Where does your child do school during the week? | People → a child, and setup | At a school every weekday, public or private, gives that child the tools on this page. |
| Parent checks schoolwork | People → a child | Off. On, finished homework waits as Ready to check until you have looked. |
| Homework earns points | People → a child | Off. On, finished homework adds the same points as chores. |
| Let AI use the children’s details | Settings → Privacy | Off. The photo of the assignment sheet works only with it on. |
| A verse and a prayer for the school day | Settings → Family | Off. On, the school day card carries a verse and one line to pray. It also needs Show Scripture on Today and the wall. |
What it does not do
Plainly, so you know before you start.
- No sign-in to the school’s portal
- Doorpost does not log in to a school’s system and has no direct connection to Google Classroom, Canvas or any other. The calendar link you paste is the only thing it reads from a school.
- The link is a secret
- Anyone holding a calendar link can read that calendar, so Doorpost stores it encrypted and does not show it again after you save it. You can remove it at any time.
- It depends on the school
- Some schools turn calendar links off, and a link carries due dates, not grades or whether work was handed in. We have not been able to test every school’s link, which is why you see a preview first.
- Grades are yours to enter
- Nothing is read from a grade portal. The trend is only as current as the last grade you logged.
Tonight’s homework and tomorrow’s test, on the wall by dinner.
School is set per child, so a brother or sister taught at home gets lessons and a gradebook instead.
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