Follow your child’s school, and know who can reach them
Read the school’s news and events, get told when something needs your attention, and decide which schools and businesses your child may write to.
You’re told when your child
- blocks someone, or reports a person or a message
- writes to a school or a business, or gets a reply
- rents or buys a study material on the website
- deletes their account
At most one alert a week for each kind, except replies from a school, and study material rentals and purchases: you always see those.
You decide
- which schools your child may write to, and which businesses
- everything on the account of a child under 13, which you open and hold for them
You don’t see your child’s messages with other people, only a short summary: how many connections they have, and how many reports about their messages were reviewed.
What your child never meets here
- An adult who can add them as a connection or start a message with them
- An advert or a promoted post
- A search result with their name in it
How to link to your child
Parent accounts are made in the EduPress app for Android. The website can’t make one. At sign-up you add your child: their school, name and username, and whether you’re their mother, father, guardian or another relative. If your child already has an account, ask their school for help.
- Add your childWe create their account and ask their school to let them in.
- The school confirmsSchool staff see your link and confirm you’re the parent.
- Your child says yesThey switch on Acknowledged as my guardian. If you created their account, this is done for you. They can take it back later.
- You see the summaryOnce the school and your child have both said yes, Family safety shows your child’s summary.
Worried about a child right now?
Call Sauti 116, Uganda’s free child helpline. It’s open 24 hours and you can talk in English or your own language. If a child is being abused, report it to the police.
Is your school not on EduPress yet?
Send this page to the head teacher, or to the school’s WhatsApp group.