Before you start: five setup decisions
- Put the production in an organization if you can: A production created on your personal account belongs to you, so if you change schools the records go with you. An organization — your drama program, your booster club — keeps them with the program. Personal is the default, so this is a choice you have to make deliberately
- Turn off what you are not doing: Every menu item except Overview, Scenes and People can be switched off for a production — Budget, Auditions, Timesheets, whichever you do not use. This is not cosmetic: a switched-off feature is hidden and its data is closed to everyone on the show, including you. A one-act with no budget should not have a Budget tab for thirty students to open, find empty, and ask you about
- Decide about birthdates: Setup → Signup form has a Collect date of birth switch, off by default. Turn it on for a youth production — it is what makes the under-13 protections below actually fire. Ages are calculated fresh every time, so a student who turns 13 in November is handled correctly the next day with nothing for you to update
- Upload your waiver if you have one: Your participation agreement, photo release or code of conduct goes on the audition as a PDF, and registrants must acknowledge it before they can sign up. The acknowledgment is timestamped alongside the terms acceptance
- Turn on cast pages: The production's ⋯ menu → Features has a Cast pages switch, off until you turn it on. It gives every Cast and Student on the roster a private, read-only page of their own part in the show — the answer for students who cannot or should not log in. More on it under What students can reach without logging in
More in CueCall in the Classroom
- CueCall in the Classroom: Getting your students in — and the one-way door — There are two ways, they both work, and they are not the same on paper. Choose on the basis of where your consent records already live.
- CueCall in the Classroom: Accounts, and the line at 13 — A CueCall account is always held by somebody 13 or older. A younger student still takes part fully — a parent or guardian holds the account, and the child participates through it.
- CueCall in the Classroom: What students can reach without logging in — Every student can have a page of their own that needs no account — their cast page — plus a set of other things you hand out as a link. All of them open on any phone, with no account and no password.
- CueCall in the Classroom: What a student sees once they do log in — Roles are narrow by design, and enforced on the server rather than by hiding menu items. A student signing in as Cast or Student can:
- CueCall in the Classroom: Email, and why district addresses bounce — Student district addresses often refuse outside mail: Many districts configure them that way. CueCall flags it on the Registrants tab as Bounced, separately from Not sent, and shows the provider's…
- CueCall in the Classroom: When an administrator asks — "What consent do you hold?" The registrant CSV export. It carries, per student, when the terms and privacy policy were accepted, when your waiver was acknowledged, and whether the performer or a…
- CueCall in the Classroom: Things people ask for that are not there yet — Stated plainly, so nobody builds a plan on them:
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