The Parent / Guardian Portal

Overview

The American Digital Education Parent Portal gives parents and guardians a secure window into their student’s progress: the same scores, mastery, and growth data their teachers see, in a view built just for families.

It is a read-only companion to the classroom. Parents can watch mastery build lesson by lesson, follow assignments and due dates, and understand exactly where a student is thriving or needs a hand, all without any ability to alter grades or coursework. Everything a parent sees is scoped, on our servers, to only the students their teacher has connected to them.

For Parents & Guardians

Your student’s teacher sets up your access. From there, claiming your account and signing in take only a minute, and you can use a password or your existing Google account, whichever you prefer.

Getting Your Account

Your student’s teacher creates your account. You’ll receive an email, “You have been invited to American Digital Education by [your teacher’s name]”, with a Claim My Account button. That link is yours alone: it expires after 7 days and stops working the moment your account is set up.

On the claim page you have two options:

• Use your Google account (recommended). No password to remember: connect the Google account you already use and sign in with one click from then on.
• Set a password. Enter your name and choose a password (at least 8 characters, with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number, and a special character).

Either way, you land directly on your dashboard.

Signing In

From lessons.americandigitaledu.com, click the purple Parent / Guardian Portal button. The Parent Portal page gives you two options:

• Sign Agreement. Sign a Master Agreement for Attendance Recovery, Short-Term Independent Study, or Long-Term Independent Study. No account needed; you’ll just need the agreement code from your school.
• Sign In to View Your Student’s Performance. Email and password (with Remember me for 30 days and Forgot password), or one-click Sign in with Google.

What You’ll See

After signing in, Select Your Student lists every student connected to your account. If you have multiple children on ADE, they’re all here under one login.

Each student’s dashboard shows six at-a-glance tiles:

The Assignments list

Below the tiles, the Assignments list shows everything your student has been assigned: the type (Regular Assignment, Attendance Recovery, Short-Term Independent Study, or Long-Term Independent Study), the course, lesson, and standard, how far along they are (out of the lesson’s 65 steps), their score and mastery, when they last worked, and any due dates, shown in red if the work is past due.

Assessment Analytics

At the bottom, Assessment Analytics breaks down your student’s quiz and test performance: average score, pass rate, score distribution, and which specific questions they aced or found hardest.

Good to Know

• Your view is read-only. You can see everything; changes to assignments and grades go through your student’s teacher.
• You only see your own students. Every request is checked on our servers against the students your teacher connected to you: there is no way to see another family’s data.
• Multiple teachers? One account. If your student has several teachers, or you have children in different classrooms, everything appears under the same login automatically.

For Teachers & Independent Study Teachers

The Parents / Guardians Screen

A new left-menu item, Parents / Guardians (directly under My Students), lists every parent connected to your students, with their students’ names and grades, account status, and last sign-in. Search by the parent or the student, and filter by grade.

Inviting a Parent

The Pending Invitations tab tracks unclaimed invitations, with Resend (issues a fresh 7-day link and disables the old one) and Cancel.

Managing Parents

• Edit. Update a parent’s name or email (email changes update their sign-in immediately, and any unclaimed invitation follows the new address), and add or remove connected students.
• Remove. Disconnects the parent from your students. Their account is only deleted if no other teacher’s students remain connected, so removing a shared parent never affects another classroom.

For Administrators

• Parent accounts are created and managed by teachers; the district independent study teacher can connect parents to any student in the district.
• Parent accounts do not consume student licenses.
• Every parent action is scoped server-side to their linked students only: access control is enforced in the database on every request, not just in the app.
• Parent account changes (invitations, edits, removals) are recorded in the administrative audit log.

Privacy & Security

The Parent Portal was built for FERPA and COPPA compliance from the first line of code:

• Parents see only the students their teacher has connected, enforced on our servers for every single request.
• Invitation links are single-use, expire in 7 days, and are stored only as cryptographic hashes.
• Parents have read-only access: no grades, assignments, or records can be changed from a parent account.
• Sign in with Google uses your existing Google security (including any two-factor protection on your Google account).
• Parent sessions expire after 12 hours of inactivity (or 30 days with Remember me).

Frequently Asked Questions