Dates in organizations
Create, repeat and cancel rehearsals and performances for a group — and see who's coming.
App only
A group's calendar is only available in the phone app.
Every group in an organization has its own calendar. The teacher adds rehearsals and performances, the kids accept or decline — and the teacher can see in advance how many to expect. This article covers both sides: creating dates and responding to them.
You'll only see the Calendar tab once you've joined a group. Dates always apply to exactly one group — there are no organization-wide dates covering every group. Only that group's teacher can create, change and delete them.
Creating a date
Tap the calendar tab at the bottom, then the round button in the bottom right.
Give the date a title and choose the type: rehearsal, performance, event or other. The type determines the icon shown in the list.
Set the start and, if you like, an end. Without an end, cori only shows the start time.
For the weekly rehearsal, set the repetition here — then a single entry covers the whole term.
Notes are the place for anything the group needs to know, such as things to bring. The location opens a map where you can drop the meeting point; the kids can then navigate straight there later.
The date appears immediately in the calendar of every child in your group.
Right at the bottom of the form there's a switch for whether cori should ask about attendance. Turn it off when a response doesn't make sense — for a purely informational date, say. The question then disappears for the kids, and so does the attendance overview for you.
Accepting and declining
On a date's detail page, cori asks every child: "Are you coming?" The options are Yes, Maybe and Can't make it. The answer can be changed at any time.
There's a faster way straight from the list: press and hold a date card and a small menu appears with accept and decline. For teachers, the same menu also includes editing, cancelling and deleting the date.
Who's coming?
As a teacher, the Who's coming overview sits on the detail page below your own response: everyone in your group, sorted into accepted, maybe and declined, each with an icon and voice. The three totals are shown at a glance in the top right.
Kids who haven't responded at all appear in the list with a question mark. So a missing answer is neither an acceptance nor a decline — when in doubt, ask rather than relying on the numbers.
Cancel or delete?
Teachers have two different actions, and the difference matters:
- Cancelling leaves the date in place but visibly strikes it through and marks it as Cancelled. Responses are dropped. That's the right move when a rehearsal isn't happening — everyone can see it's off. The same button restores it later.
- Deleting removes the date entirely. It disappears from every child's calendar without a word.
Right now you can't pull a single occurrence out of a series in the organization area: cancelling, editing and deleting always apply to the entire repeating date. If just one occurrence needs to be skipped, the only workaround at the moment is to announce it in a note — or to set the series up shorter and add the exception as its own date.
What's next?
- Running your group: Creating and managing groups
- The basics: What is an organization?
- Materials for rehearsal: Materials in an organization
- The same thing in a choir: Creating appointments and rehearsals
- Attendance in a choir: Setting and tracking attendance
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