School

Customise the overview

The overview has eight cards – but not every family needs all of them, or in the same order. So you put the page together yourself: at the top of the “Overview” page, via “Customise overview”.

“Customise overview” isn't “Settings”

Two buttons sit next to each other at the top, and they do very different things:

Settings change the child's school profile – school name, year, holiday region, who can see the grades. This applies to everyone in the household, so it needs the “Manage school” permission.
Customise overview changes only your own view. You don't need a permission for that, and whatever you hide stays visible to everyone else in the household. You're tidying up your own view, not theirs.

The view applies per person and per household. If a child belongs to two households, the overview can look different there than it does for you – different things often matter in each household.

What's on the sheet

One switch per card. You change the order with Up and Down instead of dragging – that also works reliably on a phone. “Reset to default” restores everything to how it started out.

Switched-off cards move to the end of the list and can't be reordered there: only what you can see gets sorted. Switch one back on, and you slot it back in.

You can't create your own cards. The overview only works out what's already in patchio – it isn't a blank sheet for you to fill in yourself.

The eight cards

By default, the first six are on, and the last two are off:

Tomorrow (new) – with period number and free periods
Next assessment
Assessment density
Subjects this half-year
This week
Until the holidays
To do – open school tasks from your lists; off by default
School events – parents' evening (Elternabend), school outing (Wandertag), school trip (Klassenfahrt); off by default

What's on the other cards is described in “The overview”.

The “Tomorrow” card

It shows the next school day, not just the next calendar day. On a Friday evening it says “Monday”, and with A/B weeks it's already worked out which week that'll be.

If the next day falls away – weekend, a recorded day off, public holiday – the card jumps ahead to the next day school's actually on, and gives a one-line reason.

If the next school day is a week or more away, the card is titled “No school” and, instead of the period list, gives the day school starts again along with the week: “Back on Monday, 19 October · Week A”. A period list wouldn't help anyone during the holidays.

If there's simply nothing in the timetable for a weekday, the card says exactly that: “Nothing in the timetable for Wednesday” – and not “no school”. The difference matters, because the timetable might just not be complete yet, and patchio can't tell the two apart.

If a school event is running the next day – a school outing, a school trip – it's shown as a note above the periods. The periods stay listed regardless: patchio doesn't know whether an outing replaces the lessons, or only some of them.

Which period is that?

Each line starts with the period number – the same one shown in the timetable: “3.”, or “3.–4.” for a double period. The time stays underneath; the two answer different questions, and in the sixth form you arrange to meet after a period, not by the clock.

If there are free periods between two lessons, they get their own line – “4.–6. · 3 periods free · 10:35–13:15”. Several in a row are combined into one line, so the card doesn't sprawl.

If the day starts later or ends earlier, there's no such line. That's not a gap in the day, but a later start or an earlier end – and whether that's unusual isn't something patchio knows: the grid names the school's periods, not your child's normal day. The late start is still shown, though, through the number of the first line: it simply reads “3.” instead of “1.”.

Without a period grid, there are no numbers. In that case, a note under the list points you to the grid (in the school settings); patchio also can't spot free periods then. If a period's time doesn't match any period in the grid – for example, because the grid was shifted later – that one line stays without a number, and the card points you to the timetable.

And most importantly: the card follows exactly the same rule as the evening's school bag reminder. If it shows periods for tomorrow, the reminder that evening means the same day. More on this under “School bag reminder”.

“Subjects this half-year” can be locked

If the child's grade visibility is set to “Only the child”, the card stays in the list, but its switch is greyed out; the reason is on the same line. That's not a bug: the lock sits in the database, not in the view – turning it on would only create an empty card. More on this under “Who can see the grades?”.

“This week” now shows the days

This used to show bars: how often each subject came up in the week. Now it shows the five days with their times – “Mon 8:00–15:30 · Afternoon” – today is highlighted, and free days show with their reason in the list. The header line stays as it was: “31 periods · 2 afternoons”.

Public holidays and holiday days don't count towards this. In a week with a public holiday, the period count is lower than usual – not a counting error, just the week your child actually has.