If your child doesn't have their own phone, you sign them up yourself: via the link for parents that you get from the choir leadership, with your own cori account. Your child gets no login, no email address and no photo. You say yes or no for your child, see their appointments and read the parents' chat. This works in the cori app and in the browser.
How to sign up your child
- Open the link for parents
cori shows the choir's name and the choir leadership, but no members, and explains under "Sign up your child" how it works. Tap Continue.
- Sign in with your account
Sign in with your cori account or create one. The account belongs to you, not your child.
- Choose the month and year of birth
"Sign up a child" first asks: "When was your child born?" Month and year are enough; cori doesn't want to know the day. The age decides how it continues: if your child is already 16, they decide for themselves (see below).
- Enter the name
Under "Child's name", enter their first and last name so the choir leadership recognises your child.
- Sign up
Tap the button with your child's first name, for example "Sign up Mia". Below it, it says: "This confirms that you're a parent or legal guardian and that Mia may take part in the choir." This tap is your consent; cori saves it with the date.
cori then shows that your child is in the choir. From here you can sign up a sibling with "Sign up another child", or bring your child straight onto their own phone with "Show code". cori doesn't ask for a voice during sign-up; the choir leadership adds it if needed.
What happens next
Your child's appointments appear in your calendar right away, with the addition "for Mia". The parents' chat and private messages to the choir leadership become available as soon as the choir leadership has confirmed your child. Until then, SettingsFamily shows "Waiting for the choir leaders" next to your child. Under Messages, cori also explains: "Once the choir leader has confirmed your child, you'll find the parents' chat here and can write to the leaders."
There's no waiting if you come via a personal link from the choir leadership, or if the choir leadership in this choir has already confirmed a sibling of your child.
Saying yes or no for your child
Every one of your child's appointments has the "Reply for Mia" card with "Confirm" and "Decline". The choir leadership sees "Replied by" and your name next to your child. Just like with your own answer, you can add a note, for example that your child will come later. An answer deadline or a lock set by the choir leadership applies to you too, and if cori reminds people about open answers, you get the reminder for your child.
Of the other children, you only see how many per voice have said yes, not who. As long as your child doesn't have their own phone, you'll also find the choir's current songs, for listening together at home.
Siblings and other choirs
For each additional child, open the same link again or tap "Sign up another child" after signing up. If you've already signed up children, cori first asks "Who are you signing up?": choose a child from the list if they should sing in this choir too, or "Another child". All your children run through your one account, even in different choirs.
For a choir you sing in yourself, lead, or in which the choir leadership has already confirmed one of your children, you don't need a link: SettingsFamily has "Sign up a child" for that. This applies to choirs with "Members under 16".
A second parent
The second parent also signs up the child via the link for parents, with the same first and last name and the same month of birth. cori then recognises the child and asks you, for example "Thomas would also like to follow Mia." In the app, the question arrives as a notification. Under SettingsFamily, tap Allow or Decline. Only after "Allow" does the second parent see the appointments and answers and join the parents' chat.
Until then, the second parent sees "Waiting to be allowed" and can withdraw the request. It's valid for 14 days, and they learn nothing about you beforehand. There can't be more than two parents per child. If it really is a different child with the same name and month of birth, the second parent taps "This is a different child" and signs them up anew.
Signing out your child
If your child no longer sings in the choir, open them under SettingsFamily and tap "Sign out Mia". Your child is then no longer in any choir. cori deletes their data after 30 days; if you sign them up in a choir again before then, everything is kept. A second parent is informed by notification and email. The same period applies if the choir leadership removes your child from their last choir.
If only you want to step back and a second parent will keep looking after your child, choose "Stop following" instead. If you delete your cori account, the second parent keeps looking after your child; if there isn't one, cori deletes your child's data along with it.
Is your child already 16?
From 16, young people decide for themselves. If you choose a date of birth that makes your child already 16, cori doesn't sign them up. Instead, you only enter their first name and use "Send Lena a request" to send your child a link that they agree to themselves. How it continues is described in From the parent account to their own phone.
If it doesn't work
- "This link for parents is no longer valid. Ask the choir leader for the current one." The choir has switched off "Members under 16". If the choir leadership has created a new link, cori reports "Invitation Not Found" for the old one.
- "Mia is already signed up in this choir. If Mia isn't listed under Family, ask the choir leader." You've already signed up your child, or they sing in the choir with their own phone and no parent follows them in cori yet.
- "Mia already has two parents in cori." There can't be more than two.
- "Only adults can register a child." Your own account is one for members under 16.
- "You can't register any more children. Write to us if that isn't right." One account can sign up to twelve children.
- "You can't sign up a child in this choir from here. Please use the link for parents." "Sign up a child" under Family is only available for the choirs listed there.
- You've got the invitation link: cori then shows "Want to sign up your child? Your choir leader has a separate link for parents." Ask the choir leadership for that link.
What's next?
- The overview: Young singers under 16
- Writing to the choir leadership: The parents' chat
- Their first own phone: From the parent account to their own phone