TuitionDesk publishes one Android app named TuitionDesk
(package in.tuitiondesk.app). Owners, branch admins, teachers, and parents install the same app
and sign in at the unified login screen.
| Role | Can they self-register? | How they start |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition owner / director | Yes — public Sign up creates a new tuition account | Sign up, then create your centre. Login at /login/ |
| Branch admin / manager | No — invite activation only | Accept owner invite, then log in on the same screen |
| Teacher | No — login only | Owner creates your account and can reset your password any time |
| Parent / guardian | No signup for a new centre — activate parent access once | Centre adds your email; you activate a password, then log in at /login/ |
The app talks to TuitionDesk over the internet. If your phone loses signal, a compact You're offline strip appears and explains that we will reconnect automatically when you are back online. While offline, form saves and other writes wait until you reconnect (they do not silently fail mid-save).
Brief connection blips (for example while the API is updating) are retried automatically for reads and safe updates. If a write still cannot reach the server, you see a friendly We're reconnecting or temporary issue message with Retry — never a raw "Network Error" or "Internal Server Error". If your session has expired, login says Your session has expired instead of "Unauthorized". During planned updates you may see We're updating TuitionDesk with a Retry Now button and automatic retry every few seconds.
If the same email matches more than one role (owner, branch admin, teacher, or parent)— in the same centre or across centres—TuitionDesk shows a Continue as chooser with every matching account. Google sign-in lists parent contacts even before a parent password is set. With a single match, you go straight into the right portal.
First-time centre owners can use Sign in with Google on the login screen — TuitionDesk creates your owner account and a starter academy automatically (simple one-class mode). On later Google sign-ins, you always resume the same academy (students, teachers, and classes stay put). If your email is also used as a teacher or parent contact, Google sign-in still opens your owner academy first; use Switch account to open the teacher or parent role. Teachers, branch admins, and parents who are not owners still need an account created by their centre.
After you sign in, open your profile menu (or Accounts in the parent portal) and use Switch account to move between any linked roles without signing out.
A teacher or parent may also belong to more than one centre at the same time. Each centre appears as its own Continue as / Switch account option. Student records remain private and separate inside each centre.
Owners on Growth and above (or any plan where admin enables multipleOrganizations) can create another academy under the same login, then switch between academies from the same Switch account menu without signing out. Each academy keeps its own students, fees, teachers, and subscription.
While the app is not yet live on the public Play Store, you can join closed testing. From your TuitionDesk dashboard, open Support and create a ticket (or use Request Android early access). We add the email on your account to the Play Console early-access testers list. After you accept the invite, you can install the official Android app, receive push notifications, and use day-to-day features. Public Play Store launch is coming soon.
Super-admins can announce closed testing (or any product update) from Admin → Broadcast email: compose subject and body, optional button link, send a test email to any address first, add extra non-account emails, then blast verified owners or all accounts.
Publish one listing: TuitionDesk (in.tuitiondesk.app).
Typical path: internal testing → closed testing → production. Build a signed .aab in Android Studio
after npm run android:build.
Play Console style: white background, centred compact logo (shield with growth bars), mild blue brand.
Regenerate with npm run android:icons in the frontend folder, then rebuild.
Push notifications use a white status-bar silhouette (ic_stat_notification) tinted with the same mild blue.
The large coloured square in the notification shade usually comes from the installed launcher icon —
update to the latest APK if you still see an older mark.
Product UI (web and Android app) uses Rubik — Classic & Sophisticated:
headings Bold (700), body and captions Regular (400), labels Medium (500).
The Android app loads the same fonts from the web build; rebuild the app after font changes
(npm run android:build).
On phone and the Android app, Cancel / Next / Save stay above the soft keyboard on every page: slide-in forms shrink with the keyboard, page scroll leaves room for action buttons, and the bottom tab bar tucks away while you type. Update to the latest app build if buttons still appear hidden.
When your centre assigns batch homework, parents can receive push notifications for: new homework assigned, due tomorrow (evening), due today (morning), and overdue. Tapping the notification opens the child's Homework tab in the Family Portal.
Teachers and parents also get pushes (alongside email where configured) for: schedule added/updated/cancelled, teacher assigned to a class, student enrolled, batch start date, progress report sent to parent, and session notes PDF shared with parents. Tapping opens Sessions (or Attendance for progress reports) for the right child or class.
Owners can receive onboarding reminders (finish adding students/classes) and purchase confirmed pushes that open Students or Pricing in the app.
Use More → Sign out (or Settings → Sign out). The app clears your session and returns to the login screen right away. Push-notification cleanup runs in the background and must not leave the app stuck on a loading screen.
After you allow notifications, TuitionDesk schedules pushes using your centre’s timezone
(default Asia/Kolkata in Settings), not the server’s UTC clock alone.
Tap a TuitionDesk notification to open the relevant page in the app. Fee reminders open the child’s Fees tab for parents or Outstanding fees for staff; class and schedule updates open Sessions; attendance alerts open Attendance; progress reports open Attendance for the child; test reminders open the child’s Tests/Assessments tab; enquiry reminders open Enquiries; purchase and renewal reminders open Pricing; onboarding reminders open Students. When the notification includes a child, batch, session, or date, TuitionDesk carries that context into the page where possible.
Every notification is tied to its intended role. If you use the same email as an owner, teacher, or
parent and a different role is currently active, TuitionDesk returns to the unified
/login/ flow. Choose the requested identity at Continue as; the app then
resumes the original notification page. This prevents a parent notification from opening staff data,
or the reverse.