As soon as the choir leadership has confirmed the first child whose parents are in cori, cori creates a parents' chat for the choir. It's named after the choir with "(parents)" added, such as "Lindenhof Children's Choir (parents)", and appears under Messages for everyone involved. The choir leadership and the parents write in it; the children don't see it.
Parents here means the parents of children without a phone of their own and of members under 16 who follow their child in cori. The parents of members aged 16 and over are only included in choirs with "Members under 16".
Finding the parents' chat
Open Messages. The parents' chat is right at the top of the "Choir-wide" section and has the subtitle "Choir leaders and parents". In the chat there's the note: "The choir leaders and the parents write here. The children don't see this chat."
If your child is still waiting for the choir leadership's confirmation, the parents' chat doesn't exist for you yet. Messages then shows "Almost there": "Once the choir leader has confirmed your child, you'll find the parents' chat here and can write to the leaders."
What you can do in the parents' chat
- Everyone in the chat can write. If the choir leadership switches on "Only admins can write" in the chat info, the parents only read along, and only the choir leadership and the admins can write.
- Surveys, about car-sharing for example, can only be started in the parents' chat by the choir leadership and the admins. The parents vote.
- Only the choir leadership and the admins can pin messages.
- New families see the whole previous history, including everything the choir leadership has pinned.
- The name and members can't be changed, and the parents' chat can't be deleted. It stays even when there are currently no parents in the choir.
Messaging privately as a parent
If you don't sing in the choir yourself, you can message privately as soon as the choir leadership has confirmed one of your children:
- the choir leadership and the admins,
- the other parents from the parents' chat,
- your own child, if they have a phone of their own and are confirmed.
Parents don't message other children or the adult singers privately, and they can't create a group. The choir's other chats, such as the whole-choir chat and the voice parts, aren't visible to parents. Nobody messages a child without a phone of their own directly; messages to the child go to their parents. If you sing in the choir yourself, you have all the chats there like any member, plus the parents' chat.
As choir leadership or an admin, you message a parent via the member list: in the menu next to the child it says "Message Sandra", for example.
When someone joins or leaves
Parents join the parents' chat as soon as the choir leadership has confirmed one of their children. Anyone who becomes choir leadership or an admin is included automatically.
Parents leave the parents' chat when they choose "Stop following", deregister their child, the choir leadership removes their child from the choir, or their child aged 16 or over ends the following, as long as they have no other child in the choir. In a choir without "Members under 16", following a child with a phone of their own ends when they turn 16, and with it the place in the parents' chat.
If it doesn't work
- No parents' chat to be seen. Your child is still waiting for the choir leadership's confirmation. As choir leadership, you only see the parents' chat once the parents of a confirmed child are in it.
- You can't write in the parents' chat. The choir leadership has switched on "Only admins can write".
- "You can't message this person right now." One of you has blocked the other.
What's next?
- The overview: Young singers under 16
- For parents: Registering a child as a parent
- Chats and surveys in the choir: Chats and surveys