Setting up/removing home access to the Child Login

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As well as logging in whilst at school, using the Child Login children can log into Tapestry from home via their parents'/carers' relative accounts, if you've allowed that. This might be something you want to set up if you're putting activities for home learning on Tapestry. 

Please note you will need to make sure that the child is linked to an active relative on your Tapestry and they are with that parent/carer when they want to log in. For information on linking relatives with children on Tapestry, please see this tutorial.

To see how the children log in once this is set up, you can have a look at the guide for children on logging in at home and the one for relatives for to get their children logged in.

This guide will take you through the home access set up steps; you should only need to carry out these steps:

• At the start of the school year
• When you have a new class or group

First though, some FAQs!

 

Why do relatives need to log in first?

Passwords used by children need to be easy to type and easy to remember, but this means the passwords may be easier to guess. Children may also not be particularly security conscious when it comes to keeping their password a secret. By having a relative log in first, the child's account and data is kept more secure.

This feature also allows you to optionally not give a child a password but instead only require their relative to log in.

What are the security implications?

By allowing children to log in at home, you should be aware that relatives will have easy access to their child's account; anything visible to a child will be visible to a relative who has the ability to log in as their child. Even if the child is given a password, the child is likely to share it with their relatives. This is something to bear in mind when you reach the part in the process that allows you to choose which relative accounts the child can use to access their account.

We'll start by looking at how you can allow children to log in from home. To skip to the section on restricting access, click here.

Allowing children to log in from home

Start by going to the 'Child Login' tab (1) and then clicking on 'Manage whether children can log in at home' (2).

 

 

You will see that Tapestry gives you three options of what you can do from here; select the first option, 'Allow children to log in at home'.

 

 

That will take you to an information page, essentially just telling you what I said above about relatives needing to log in first and the security implications. You just need to click 'Set up home access'.

 

 

On the next page you can choose the group you want to grant home access to from the drop-down list. The groups that appear are those you have set up in Manage Groups within the Control Panel. If you haven't set any up yet but you'd like to, take a look at this tutorial. 

You don't have to do this one small group at a time. If you're setting this up for all classes,  you might want to just choose 'All children', which will be the last group in the list.

 

 

Once you have selected a group, the names of the children in that group will then appear below and you can choose whether you'd like to include all of those children (1), or just some of them (2). If you do only want to include some of them, you will be able to tick the ones you like using the tick boxes next to their names (3).

It's worth knowing here that if you select the whole group, the included children will change if you change the group within 'Manage Groups'. You can read about that in our tutorial about editing a group login page. 

When you are ready, click 'Next' (4).

 

 

The next page will allow you to choose which relative accounts you want the child to be able to use to login in through. Similarly to the last screen, you can either allow all (1), or you can use the same process as above to allocate specific relative accounts to use the Child Login feature (2). When you are happy with your choices, click 'Next' at the bottom of the page.

 

 

The last step is for you to choose whether the children need to use a password when they log in through their relatives' Tapestry accounts and whether it's different for different relatives. When you are happy though, you can press Finish. 

 

 

Restricting access to home login

There may come a point when you want to remove a child's access to home login altogether, or remove this option from a particular relative's profile - either of these can be done by altering either the permissions for the child or for the relative.

Full instructions can be found in Tapestry itself. Start by going to 'Child Login' (1), then 'Manage whether children can log in from home' (2).

 

 

Then select 'Stop children logging in at home'.

 

 

A page with full instructions will then appear along with direct links to the respective permissions pages that you will need to access. If you right-click on either of the 'Open Permissions' buttons and choose 'Open in a new tab', you can leave the page you're currently on open to refer to whilst making the changes to the permissions on the other newly opened tab.

 

 

You can also view and change the permissions by going to 'Control Panel' (1) -> 'User Permissions' (2) and you will find them under the 'Relative' and 'Children' tabs (3) respectively.

 

 

 

On the 'Relatives' tab on the User Permissions page, open up the 'Child Login' section. Here you just need to click on the 'Edit' button to change the permission 'Child allowed to log in at this relative's home'. This tutorial will talk you through the whole process of setting up user permission for relatives. 

 

Alternatively you can do this from the 'Children' tab on the User Permissions page. Select the section 'Logging in at school at home' and for the option 'Log in at home', click on the 'Edit' button. 

 

 

 

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