How-to: Connect Students with their Parents

However you're making use of Prodigy in your classroom, connecting your students to their parents benefits everyone!

Once a student is linked to their parent, parents can:

  • Retrieve their child's login information 
  • Access reports on their child's performance
  • View monthly report cards, and more!

Continue reading for instructions on how to invite parents to create their own Prodigy account and link to their children!

Parent Invite Instructions

1. Log in to your Prodigy Teacher Account.  If you need help with this, more information can be found in this article.

2. Select Manage Classes, with the gear icon, at the bottom left of your screen:

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3. Locate the classroom you'd like to invite parents for. If you have more than one active class, scroll down to view additional classes.

4. Select the Actions menu of your class, then select Invite parents:

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5. Enter your students' parent emails, then select Review invites and double-check that your students are matched with the correct parent email.

6. Click Send invites and you're all set! You can send one invite per student, up to a maximum of 25 parent invites per day.

Parents will receive an invite asking them to sign up for Prodigy and attach their child’s account. If they already have an account but haven’t attached their child, they’ll be able to skip straight to that step!

You can view the status of your invitations under your class Actions menu, and can edit, resend, or cancel any pending invites.

Parent Letter PDF & Printing Instructions

Parent letters can be used to provide parents access to the below information via PDF, or by printing:

  • Student Username and Password
  • Information about Prodigy
  • Instructions for the parent to create a free Prodigy Parent Account

If your students are learning from home, you have the option to download student login information as individual PDFs. Then, you can easily email student information to parents as a PDF attachment.

Important!

Parent letters contain a student's unique username and password and should be kept confidential to prevent any unauthorized access.

Do not post this PDF document online on any channel or website accessible to someone who is not the parent.

We highly recommend you share this information with parents directly on 1:1 channels like SMS, email or print.

To access parent letters in PDF format for easy printing, take the following steps from your classroom page: 

Please Note:

Accounts that are linked with Google or ClassLink cannot have their credentials displayed. You will need to contact your admin, Google or ClassLink for this information.

1. Log in to your Prodigy Teacher Account.  If you need help with this, more information can be found in this article.

2. Select Manage Classes, with the gear icon, at the bottom left of your screen:

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3. Locate the classroom you'd like to download letters for. If you have more than one active class, scroll down to view additional classes.

4. Select the Actions menu of your class, then select Download Letters:

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5. You'll then be presented with options to download your letters in English or Spanish and choose your desired format. Once you've made your choices, select Download letters:

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6. Share the letter with parents!

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