Students forget most of a lesson by the time they reach the car park, and parents paying for a child's lessons rarely know what happened in them. A two-line recap fixes both, as long as it is easy to write and the teacher's honest notes stay private.
Lesson recaps What to practice Parent access Progress and certificates Private teacher notesAfter Tuesday's lesson
Flip the switches
Shared · they and their family can read this, now or whenever they sign in
What Elena sees
Bronze rumba · Tue 6:00 PM
The box and the underarm turn, keeping the weight back.
To practice: ten minutes of the turn, slowly, in front of a mirror.
The teacher's private notes ("keeps talking over the count") are never on this screen, whatever the switches say.
An example with invented names.
Her private note says the timing on the Fan is still early. Her recap says: practice the Fan to the slow track, four times through.
Reads the recap in her diary and adds her own note. Nobody at the studio reads that.
The guardian sees the recap in the parent portal, and not the child's own notes.
Teachers keep private lesson notes, what they covered, what to work on next, and those are never shown to a student, by design and in the database, not just on the screen. The recap is separate: written for the student, and shared on purpose, one lesson at a time.
Students see every lesson they have danced, newest first, with the recap where one was sent and their own notes beside it. Their own notes are theirs: nobody at the studio reads them.
A parent or guardian gets their own portal: their child's schedule, balance and, when the studio turns it on, progress, certificates and lesson recaps. A child's own private notes are never shown to a parent.
Nothing a student reads exists until the studio decides it should.
What we covered and next time. These stay staff-only.
Start it from the private notes without sharing them, add what to practice, and link a video or a practice track.
One lesson at a time. For a couple's lesson, one recap reaches both partners.
Every lesson, newest first, with the recap where one was sent and their own notes beside it. A parent reads it in the parent portal.
No. Private lesson notes and staff notes are kept apart from anything a student can read, and no setting changes that.
No. Lesson recaps, progress and certificates are all switched off until the studio turns them on, and each recap is only shared when a teacher shares it.
Yes, and the studio invites them with a code. That keeps a child's record away from anybody the studio has not connected to them.
No. Each one is shared on purpose, and a lesson without a recap still appears in the diary.
Yes. A recap can carry links to a video or a practice track.
DanceFlow is one system for the whole of ballroom: the studio, the independent teacher, and the competition.
Season planning Syllabus tracking For teachersDanceFlow is in early access, and we are working closely with the first studios and organizers using it.