Coming soon: the Chapta apps for staff and parents

Chapta is coming to phones as two mobile apps. Chapta is for school staff: administrators, principals, teachers, form teachers and bursars. Chapta Parents is for parents and guardians. Both are coming soon to iOS and Android, and both will work alongside the Chapta web app, which school leaders use from a browser.

Why two apps and not one

Staff and parents open Chapta for different reasons. A form teacher opens it at 7:45 to take the morning register for JSS 2B. A parent opens it in the evening to see whether their daughter was marked present, or to check what she has on Thursday.

One app for both would mean parents scrolling past menus they can never use, and teachers carrying screens built for families. So each app opens on the work of the person holding the phone.

Underneath, the two apps share the same school records. The register a form teacher submits in Chapta is the attendance a parent later sees in Chapta Parents.

Chapta, for school staff

The staff app puts the school day in a teacher's pocket: registers, scores, classrooms and the timetable, in a few taps each. What each person sees depends on the role the school gives them, so a subject teacher, a form teacher and a bursar each get the screens they need.

We spent most of our time on the screens teachers open every day, so that a register takes a minute and a set of scores goes in once.

Chapta Parents, for guardians

Chapta Parents is built around your children: their attendance, grades, report cards, timetable and fees. One account covers every child, even if they are in different classes, and parents only ever see their own children.

Built for real networks

The staff app keeps working when the signal drops. A register taken in a classroom with no connection is not lost, and nobody has to type it up again later.

The web app isn't going anywhere

Schools that prefer a laptop can keep using one. The web app is where school leaders see the whole school, and it works from the same records as both apps.

Getting the apps

The apps aren't in the App Store or on Google Play just yet. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know as soon as they are. Once you've joined, you can watch a short walkthrough of both apps and the web app.

If your school already uses Chapta, your administrator will set you up when the apps launch: Chapta if you work at the school, Chapta Parents if you are a parent or guardian.

If your school is not on Chapta yet, book a demo or email inquiries@chapta.tech, and we will walk you through both apps.