Child statuses help you record and share what children are doing throughout the day. They get displayed around each child’s photo in the Room Overview and in their Activity feed. Parents can even choose to be notified when their child’s status changes.
What do Child Activity Statuses Look Like?
Child activity statuses will always be displayed in the child's Activity tab on their profiles, but you can also see which statuses have been applied in the Room overview. Depending on the status type, you'll see them in different areas within each child's room:
Meal times, toilet visits, hand washing, (sun)cream, and temperature checks show as small icons around the child’s profile picture
Sleeps, sickness, holidays, and custom statuses appear on top of the profile picture
Underneath each profile picture, you will also see information such as sign-in and out times, nap durations, allergies, dietary requirements, and if the child is going home with another family
💡 Medication can also be administered from the Status bar, and will show in the Medication tab in the Room Overview. This option is only available if the child has an active medication form. If not, the medication status will be greyed out
Creating Custom Statuses
You can create your own custom statuses to fit your setting.
Open up your Settings by clicking on the cog icon in your sidebar
Select Rooms, then Custom Statuses
Here, you can view your current custom statuses, pick an icon and colour, and give your new status a name
Choose whether the status should appear in the Activity feed
Click Save new status
💡 You can have up to 7 custom statuses at a time
Adding a Child’s Status
You can add or update a child's status by following the steps below:
In the Room Overview, click on a child's room, then on the child’s profile picture
A black box will appear on the right with icons
Click the Status icon and choose the relevant status
Removing an Incorrect Status
You can remove statuses directly from a child’s Activity tab on their profile. To do so, hover over the status and click the x that appears:
If the status happened in the past (for example, a holiday or sick day), the x will not appear. In this case, you can only remove future dates in the Activity tab. To remove past dates, go to the Attendance Report:
Click the Attendance icon in your sidebar and select Child attendance
Toggle to the relevant week
Open the drop-down menu for the child’s room
Click on the child’s attendance record
Use the rubbish bin icon to remove the holiday
💡 If a signed-in child is marked as sick or on holiday, or if they are not signed out at the end of the day, Famly will automatically sign them out with the status Signed out by Famly. To update this, follow the steps above to remove the incorrect status and then sign the child back in
Statuses in the Activity Feed
A child’s Activity tab shows all statuses in the order they were added, along with a timestamp. You can also update a status directly from here by clicking Add and selecting from the drop-down menu.
By default, statuses are logged in real-time. If you need to add an activity from earlier, you can adjust the date, time, or both while recording it.
