Invitations

Most people arrive at Zebrania through an invitation: someone entered your address and you received a link. This page starts with what to do with that link. Sending invitations is covered further down. There are two kinds of invitation, and they differ in what they give you access to:

• Guardian invitation — attaches you to one specific student, as their parent or guardian.
• Teacher invitation — attaches you to a school, as a member of its team.

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You received an invitation — what next

Open the link from the message. You’ll see the invitation page, and what appears there depends on one thing: whether you already have a Zebrania account.

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If you don’t have an account yet

You don’t need to create one in advance or hunt for a sign-up form. For a teacher invitation the app handles it for you. It doesn’t even ask for your address — it knows it from the invitation:

This invitation is addressed to (address). We will send that address a link that joins you to the school straight away.

Press Join the school, you’ll get the confirmation “We sent a link to (address). Open it to join the school”, then click the link in your inbox — and the account is created as part of signing in. One click covers registration and joining together. For a guardian invitation you choose: the page offers Create account alongside Sign in. Pick “Create account”; afterwards you return to the same invitation page to accept it.

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If you already have an account

Sign in (see Getting started — sign-in is by link, no password). Once signed in, the invitation page shows an Accept invitation button, and that’s it. An invitation adds a permission to the account you already have. Don’t create a second account to accept one: one person, one account — including when you’re a parent at one school and a teacher at another.

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When an invitation doesn’t work

If no message reached your inbox at all, the causes are the same as for sign-in — spam, a typo, school mail filters. See Getting started.

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Sending invitations

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Guardian invitation

A guardian invitation for a particular student can be sent by:

• a parent or guardian of that student — to add a second parent, a grandparent who collects the child, or a guardian in another household;
• that class’s homeroom teacher, the secretary, or a school administrator — from the class page.

That second route is recent: previously only a parent could invite a guardian, which left the school with no way to add a parent who couldn’t get started alone. Today both routes produce the same invitation. To do it from the school side: open the class, find the student, and press Invite a guardian. The Guardian email or phone field is optional:

• enter an address or number — the app sends the invitation and confirms “Invitation sent to (recipient)”;
• leave it blank — you get a Guardian invite link to copy and pass on yourself (through a school register or messenger, say).

If you lack the permission you’ll see: “Only this class’s homeroom teacher, a school secretary, or an administrator can do this.”

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Teacher invitation

A teacher is invited to a school by a school administrator, and only by them. A secretary or homeroom teacher cannot; attempting it shows: “Only a school administrator can do this. Ask an administrator of your school to make the change for you.” When inviting, the administrator supplies an email address and can immediately assign the person to specific classes, marking them as a subject teacher or a homeroom teacher in each. Those assignments take effect the moment the invitation is accepted — there’s no separate step to come back to. If that person already has a pending invitation to the school, the app refuses: “This teacher has already been invited to this school.” Don’t send a second one — resend the one already waiting.

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Validity and resending

Invitations — guardian and teacher alike — are valid for 7 days from sending. After that the link stops working and a new one is needed.

• A teacher invitation can be resent by an administrator from the team list. Resending extends validity by another 7 days and sends a fresh message, as long as the invitation is still waiting to be accepted. An administrator can also revoke it.
• A guardian invitation has no separate “resend”. Just create a new one: repeat Invite a guardian for that student and a fresh link is minted.

Either way, after a resend the recipient’s inbox holds two messages. The newest one works — deleting the older one straight away saves confusion.

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What next

• No invitation, just a code or a QR poster? Joining a school and class.
• Invitation accepted and want to book a meeting? Booking a meeting.