Staff Schedule
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Courtney Hultgren
We would also love to see this feature come into fruition! We have to make an excel spreadsheet and update it weekly and I would love it integrate and use Playground for all our staff needs and not just for paperwork. For state licensing and NAEYC accreditation we have to be able to view the room, who is in each room at any given time, but also move staff and adjust when some is off/out. The other major hiccup is that we are on a college campus so our shifts are not static and regularly change based on the student's schedule each semester/day. For example one sub works 7:30-9:30 on Mondays, 7:30-1 on Wednesdays and then will randomly add hours when soccer is out early or cancelled. I need to be able to move her rooms depending on need and see staffing all at once to also not double book people or over book staff in one room. I've got an excel spreadsheet of our basic version I'd be happy to share but the communication, tracking, and updating of it is very, very manual I would love to see this. I'm also in the N4C (National Child Care Campus Coalition) and this was on a thread the other day as a major problem across centers that would fill a major gap!
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Corinne Kuntz
Having the schedule tell us if we are under staffed based on the students schedules for that class and the classroom ratio.
Adrian Ruiz
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Corinne Kuntz
Paired with being able to also view each classroom schedule to ensure ratio is maintained. Bonus points if the schedule lets us know if we are expected to be under/over ratio!
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Sasha Reiss
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Corinne Kuntz
Sasha Reiss: I am so excited about this feature! Once it is added to Playground my hope is that it will have enough capability that I can stop paying for a separate scheduling program. The features that we currently need are: staff availability, time off requests, the ability to have their schedule change from week to week, build out the schedule for 3-4 weeks at a time, see the schedule for the entire program or just one classroom, attach a classroom to a shift and notes if necessary for floating staff, the ability for staff to clock in/out and management gets notifications when a staff is late, staff get shift reminders, and the ability to see the labor costs (compared to our monthly tuition that can be manually entered or pull from billing) with the schedule to determine if we are under our target %.