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In SkuleKeeper, "Person" includes everyone in your family involved in home schooling.
We use Person to record both the people that the system is keeping information about -- students and teachers -- and also the people who can log in to the system to view and edit information. In many cases these are the same people, so it makes sense to keep them all together.
You can give your children access to the system or not, as you please. To give your child access to the system, you give him a Login ID and a Password. If you don't him a Login ID, then he has no way to access the system.
From the Person list screen, you can click on the Classes Fill icon to edit the list of classes for that student.
You assign each Person a "Role": Student, Teacher, or Administrator.
Every family must have at least one person with the role of "Administrator". An Administrator can view and edit all data about your family. (Except payment and expiration information.) Normally we would expect that this would be either mom or dad or both, depending on who has taken responsibility for record-keeping, and maybe who is more comfortable with computers. An Administrator can also do anything a Teacher can do, including being assigned as the teacher of a class.
You presumably have one or more children that you are teaching in your home school. Give each of them the role of "Student". (If you have no students, it's not clear why you would want to use this program.) Students can only view information about themselves, and cannot change it.
A Teacher can view and change information about any Student that he or she is teaching. A Teacher cannot add new students or create new classes. As Administrators can do anything Teachers can do and more, you could make both parents Administrators and not have any Teachers.
You do not have to enter Birth Date for Administrators and Teachers. (We don't insist that mom reveal her age.)
As noted above, you could make both parents Administrators and not have any Teachers. However, there are two good reasons to have someone with the Teacher role:
1. In some families, an older child teaches a younger child. In this case you might want to enter the older child as a Teacher so that he can enter schedules and grades for the younger child, but not give him the ability to see all information for all children. (Note, though, that there's no way to say that a person is both a student and a teacher. You would have to create two person entries for the same person.) Similarly, you might have a non-family member teach one of your children -- many homeschooling families use outside music and language teachers, for example -- and you might arrange with that person to enter schedule and grade information directly. (I'd guess probably not, you'd normally just get them to give you information verbally or on paper and you enter it yourself, but we leave the option open.)
2. Because Teachers cannot change as much data, it's a little safer to log in as a teacher. There's less danger that you'll accidentally delete important data. So you could have two Login IDs, one as an Administrator and another as a Teacher. Or perhaps one parent is less confident and would rather just have Teacher privileges.