📚 Parents’ guide

On your child’s page, tap “Edit” at the top next to the name – on a phone it is just the cog icon. There you will find the “Class” section with an input field. Enter the code, for example TIGER-42, and tap “Join”. After that, the teacher still has to accept your child. Until then the code shows “waiting for the teacher”. Important: you as a parent always create the account, not the school and not the child. In the same place you can leave the class again at any time.

The teacher only sees what your child has done with the class’s dictations: stars, number of mistakes and which words were spelt wrong. What your child practises at home besides that, the teacher does not see. In the parents’ dashboard you still only see your own child, not the other children in the class. If you leave the class, the teacher can no longer see anything.

Move practised dictations to the archive. On your child’s page, tap “Select” above the dictation list, tick the dictations you want to remove and tap “Move to archive”. They disappear from the list – from your child’s view too – and are kept under “Archive” at the end of the list. From there you can bring them back with “Back on the list” at any time. The results stay in the overview, archiving deletes nothing.

“Move to archive” takes the dictation off the list; with “Back on the list” it comes back, stars and all. “Delete dictation for good” removes the dictation itself, and that cannot be undone. The practice results stay in the overview either way. You will find delete on a dictation’s detail page under “Danger zone”.

That depends a lot on age and level. In Years 1–2, it is normal to make 3–5 mistakes in a short dictation. In Years 3–4, it should ideally stay below 3 mistakes. Progress over time matters more than the number of mistakes!

Ideally 3–4 times a week for 10–15 minutes. Practising regularly matters more than long sessions. Better 10 minutes every day than one hour once a week.

Take a break! When your child is frustrated, switch to an easier dictation or take a longer break. Dictation practice should not become a bad experience. Focus on small successes.

Let your child finish writing the whole dictation first. Going through the mistakes together at the end works better. Point out mistakes in a positive way: “Look here – how do you spell this word correctly?”

Categories help you practise by topic. If your child is interested in animals, start with the 🦁 Animals category. That boosts motivation! You can also filter by school topics.

Yes. On your child’s page, tap “Connect a device” – Pippo shows a 6-digit code and a QR code (valid for 2 minutes). On your child’s device, go to pippo.app/pair and enter the code or scan the QR code. Done – no password, no email address, no installation. You can unpair the device again at any time. In the “own access” section you also decide whether your child may create dictations or play learning games on their own.

Yes. On the parents’ dashboard you will find the “Family & access” section. With “Invite a caregiver” you choose which children the access is for and create a 6-digit code (valid for 2 minutes), which you pass on to your partner. The person opens pippo.app/invite, signs in (or creates a Pippo account) and enters the code – and sees the chosen children straight away in their own dashboard. In blended families you can share different children with different people; access is set for each child separately. Everyone who looks after a child may change, share and delete their dictations, no matter who wrote them.

Yes. A Pippo device can be paired with several children at the same time (family tablet mode). Create a pairing code for each child and enter all of them on the same tablet. A profile switcher with the avatars of the connected children then appears at the top – one click switches to the other child. If a child taps “Sign out”, the next child takes over automatically (or the tablet goes back to the code screen if only this one child was paired).