On a school account, the office builds a page once and every teacher starts from it. The parent-teacher conference page is the usual first one: the days, the slot length and the question that asks for the student's name, set up the same way for every class. Each teacher gets their own page with their own slots and their own families, and nobody shares a spreadsheet tab or a login.
This is part of the school account.
Share a page as a template
- Build the page the way you want every teacher to start: lists, times and questions. It can be a draft or a live page.
- Open your School page from the dashboard and go to Templates.
- Choose the page and click Share as a template.
You can share any page in the school, including one a teacher made that you'd like everyone to use. Sharing doesn't change the page or move it. To stop, click stop sharing next to it; the page itself is untouched.
What teachers see
Every staff member on the school account sees the template on their dashboard and on their School page, with a Make my copy button. Staff who join later, from the nightly Google Workspace sync or an invitation, see it the first time they sign in.
Make my copy opens the page builder with the template already filled in. The teacher changes what's theirs, usually the title, the room and the times, and publishes. The copy belongs to them: other teachers don't see it, and their families sign up on their own link.
What comes across in a copy
- The lists, rows, slots, counts and questions.
- The title, ready to edit. The description starts blank, so each teacher writes their own note to families.
- Dates. If the template's first date has already passed, the copy moves every date forward by whole weeks, so the first one is upcoming and each slot stays on the same weekday.
What doesn't come across: sign-ups. A copy starts empty, and the original keeps its own sign-ups.
Updating a template
Edit the original page. Copies teachers made before your change keep their own version; new copies get the updated one. For a new term, the simplest pattern is to edit the template's dates and tell staff it's ready, so each teacher makes a fresh copy.
Templates schools share first
- Parent-teacher conferences: one slot per family, with the student's name as a required question. See the conference sheet.
- Class parties: dishes with counts, setup and cleanup. See the class holiday party sheet.
- Field trip chaperones, the staff luncheon and the winter concert.
An example of a teacher's page at a made-up school shows what parents see.
Questions
Write to support@justsignup.io. Cole, the founder, answers, usually the same day.