Family Instructions

As part of your instructions for signing up for parent/teacher conferences you were given a web-address to go to (a "URL").

For ease of explanation these instructions will pretend the address is www.example.com/ptsignup. Whenever this address is mentioned, you will need to modify it to the address you have been given for your school.

* Open a browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet explorer, etc.) and go to `www.example.com/ptsignup`.
* You will be taken to the Sycamore login page - log in using your username and password for your family
* You will be taken to a page where it asks you to approve the app - click on yes
* You will be taken back to `www.example.com/ptsignup`

Your screen is now filled with a grid. The headers show all the teachers and the side columns show the times. Each cell on the inside will either contain the name of another family (if someone else has already signed up for that timeslot with that teacher) or the word "Unavailable" or a button saying "Sign Up". Find a time slot that works for your schedule and click on the appropriate "Sign Up" button. The button in that cell will be replaced with your name (as recorded in Sycamore for your family).

If you made a mistake or for some other reason need to "unsignup" for that timeslot, simply click on your name. You will be prompted to be sure that's what you want to do and then if you confirm it the slot will be changed back to a "Sign Up" button.

If your family has students in different departments (perhaps "Elementary School" or "Middle School" or "High School") then you will be able to view the page corresponding to that department by hovering your mouse over the menu in the top left corner and then choosing the department from the resulting pull-down menu below.

If you wish to display your schedule (for all departments) you can simply click on the menu item "Display Family Schedule" next to the department. When viewing this schedule there is a PRINT option at the bottom if you wish to make a hardcopy to take with you.

Once you have logged in on a given computer and with a given browser, you will be able to access the signup page for your family for approximately one year! (We assume this is a low-security-risk application and that's why such an extended period is allows.) If you don't want anyone to have access to the page then you will need to click on the "Log Out" button in the top right. Once you have logged out you will need to go through the Sycamore login and application approval process again before you can access the signup page.

If you use a different browser or a different computer or log out then you will need to start at the top with the Sycamore login procedure and the application approval again.