Progress Without a Dashboard: What to Ask Parents

There is no teacher dashboard in YHO, and that is a decision rather than an omission.

Why not

A dashboard would need child accounts, which means names and progress leaving the family's device and arriving at your school. It would also turn observation into a chart, and a chart of minutes says almost nothing about whether a child is concentrating.

The four questions that work instead

Ask at pickup, in this order:

• What did they choose again and again? Repetition is the clearest sign a material is doing its job.
• Did they finish it, or leave it out? A child who leaves work out mid-cycle is telling you something about the difficulty, not about their attention.
• Did they correct themselves? The moment a child notices their own error without being told is the whole point of a control of error.
• What did they say while they worked? Language during work is the best window you have into what a child understands.

What to do with the answers

Write them down somewhere you already keep notes. If two or three children in your class describe the same work at home, that is a strong signal to bring it back to the shelf with a fresh presentation.

What the app will never ask for

An account, a login, a parent's email for a child, or a report sent to a school. If a family expects a progress email because they have seen one from another app, tell them plainly that this one is quiet on purpose, and that you would rather hear about the work from the child.