There are two kinds of change, and they work differently.
| Just one day | Every week |
Parents | Today only | Recurring Schedule → Repeat on |
Staff | Edit the student on that day's dismissal (or in Student Records) and save | Dismissal Settings → Default Student Schedule |
When it takes effect | Straight away for today. A future date is saved and applied that morning. | Updates the weekly plan. Today only changes if the dismissal hasn't been activated yet. |
Who is notified | Nobody. There's no push notification for one-day changes. | The student's other parents, when a parent saves a Recurring Schedule change. |
Parent cutoff and school settings
Parent Cutoff is the deadline for a parent's one-day change. It's 30 minutes before the start time unless your school changed it.
If there is a cutoff, parents also can't change today once the dismissal has been activated, even if the cutoff time hasn't arrived yet.
If there's no cutoff, parents can change today right up until their child is dismissed or the dismissal is completed.
Weekly changes don't depend on the cutoff. They depend on the Allow parents to change default schedule setting. When it's off, parents see "Your school doesn't allow changes to the default schedule. You can still change dismissal for a single day."
One-day changes depend on Allow parents to change a single day. When it's off, only staff can change a single day.
There's no approval step. If your school wants the front office to handle every change, turn the parent settings off in Dismissal General Settings and make the changes yourselves.
The most recent change wins
If a parent sets Wednesday's transport and a staff member changes it later, the board uses the staff member's choice, and the same is true the other way round. The same rule applies between a one-day change and an early or late pass: whichever was saved most recently is used.
Staff changes
Weekly: in Default Student Schedule, change the day, save, then click Confirm.
One day: open the student on that day's dismissal (or in Student Records), change the transport, and save. You can do this right up until the student is dismissed or the dismissal is completed.
Parent cutoffs and Staff only options don't apply to staff.
Note: Before the dismissal is activated, a weekly change also updates today, unless a pass or a one-day change is already in place. After activation, weekly changes don't touch today, so edit the student on today's board instead.
Passes, activities and absences
If your school uses alternate dismissals, a pass or activity can replace the normal plan for that day. See Passes, activities and alternate dismissals.