Aladdin Schools is an Irish owned and run, award winning online Management Information System (MIS) / Student Information System (SIS) specifically designed to simplify administration in primary schools. Please take a look at www.aladdin.ie for further information.

Your school uses the Aladdin Schools software service www.aladdin.ie for administrative purposes. The Aladdin Connect portal is part of this and gives you secure access to messages from the school and to details of your child’s attendance, test results, reports cards etc. via secure login from your internet browser.

Aladdin Connect is a fantastic way to enhance a school's communication with its parents. It enables parents to stay connected and informed about their child's education by:

- Ensuring schools has their most up to date contact information

- Keeping parents apprised of their child's attendance

- Keeps parents up to date on school and classroom news via noticeboard messages

- Allow parents to view what items their child has for homework with the option to upload completed homework

- Keeps parents up to date on what library book their child is currently reading and if it is due/overdue to be returned.

- Allows parents view their child's approved report card

- Gives parents the option to opt in to share contact information with their child's classmates parents via the Parent Privacy option for the class list.

- Allows parents view their child's latest standardised test results

- Allow parents to enter absence reasons and send attendance notes to the school if their child will be arriving late / leaving early

- Allow parents to send notes to the school/teacher

Along with strengthening our home:school partnership, we also envisage Aladdin Connect helping the school by:

- Help improve attendance by allowing parents view just how many school days their child may have currently missed, along with late arrival and early leaving information.

- Help eliminate class/school notes being sent home.

- Help the school/ teachers communicate with parents when the need arises.

- Reduce costs by eliminating the need to post home school report cards

- Reduce costs by reducing the number of texts that need to be sent.

Aladdin Schools uses state of the art security to safeguard information entered by the school and data is stored and processed in strict compliance with Irish data protection laws.

The security of your information is of the utmost importance to Aladdin. Parents are reminded to ensure their accounts and passwords are not shared and to take appropriate measures to keep their account secure. Aladdin use 128 bit SSL encryption on all data that is transferred between the parent account and Aladdin/Google. This means that even if Aladdin is accessed across an unsecured wireless connection the data is fully protected. All Aladdin data is fully encrypted at rest in Google’s data centres. Aladdin and Google’s security systems are independently audited to international standards. Aladdin is security scanned daily and Google’s data centre security is independently audited to ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018. If you'd like to read more about data security please visit our Privacy page. You can find out more about our terms of service on our Terms page.

Connect is a new innovative product designed to streamline communication in Irish primary schools. It allows schools to securely share student information with parents such as report cards, attendance, noticeboard messages etc. This is all done via secure login for parents which they can access on any internet browser via their computer, laptop or smart phone. The Aladdin app is available for parents to download onto their smart phone to allow easier access to this connect account and further enhances their use by allowing them receive instant notifications for new text and noticeboard messages.

If you do not have a smart phone, yes you can still register to use the Connect product by logging in via an internet browser on your computer or laptop. This means you can access your child(s) information, view report cards, sign up for parent teacher meetings etc. If you do not have a smart phone however you cannot download the app which would allow you to receive push notifications instead of text messages/noticeboard messages. You will, however, receive an email notifying you when there is a new noticeboard message for you to read.

Yes the Aladdin Connect app is available for all schools who have purchased the Aladdin Connect feature.

Once you register with Connect, your school will most likely communicate with you via the noticeboard.

To receive instant notifications for noticeboard messages, and instead of text messages, you must have downloaded the app and verified your phone number. If you do not use the app, you will, however, receive an email notifying you when there is a new noticeboard message for you to read.

One further app-only feature is the ability for schools to allow parents to enter absence reasons for their child via the Connect app.

Aladdin are constantly reviewing our product in line with GDPR requirements and school requests, as as such have restricted parental viewing of family information within the family circle. Parents only have access to view and edit their own personal contact information. If you have any concerns and you do not want information such as money information, emergency contact details, text / email messages sent, etc. to be shared with your child's other parent, you can contact the school and ask for them to remove family sharing from your child's account. In this case, this information will not be available to either parent via Aladdin Connect.

When you log in for the first time, if your child's school has decided to allow a class list sharing option, then you will be presented with your privacy options - these options dictate what information you are happy to share with other parents within your child’s class.

You will only see information about other children in your child’s class if you have also chosen to share that particular information, for example, if you do not wish your email address to be shared, then you will also not be able to see the email address of parents who have opted to share their email.  Parents can choose to share as much or as little information as they wish as per the options available. If a parent does not share any information, their child’s first name will appear on the class list for other parents to see, but not any other information.

This means that even though the class list is generally available for other parents, the school has turned off family sharing on your account. This is usually done by request of the parent. If you think this has been done incorrectly please contact your school.

This means that the school has decided they do not wish to allow parents the option to share class list information. This means that no parent of children in your child’s class can see any class list information.

The security of your information is of the utmost importance to Aladdin. Parents are reminded to ensure their accounts and passwords are not shared and to take appropriate measures to keep their account secure. Aladdin use 128 bit SSL encryption on all data that is transferred between the parent account and Aladdin/Google. This means that even if Aladdin is accessed across an unsecured wireless connection the data is fully protected. All Aladdin data is fully encrypted at rest in Google’s data centres. Aladdin and Google’s security systems are independently audited to international standards. Aladdin is security scanned daily and Google’s data centre security is independently audited to ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018. If you'd like to read more about data security please visit our Privacy page. You can find out more about our terms of service on our Terms page.

When a parent chooses the edit option and updates, for example, a mobile phone number etc, the school will see this information change request. Once the school acknowledges the request and is happy to update the information, then and only then will the information update for a parent. Please allow the school a couple of days to acknowledge your request.

You can sign into Aladdin Connect from your desktop computer, laptop, PC, or internet browser on your phone by going to www.aladdin.ie and clicking on the "Sign In" option.

Then click on the "Parent sign-in" button. You will then be on the parent sign-in screen and can sign in to Connect using your email address and password for Aladdin Connect.

When a child moves school, the app does not need to be deleted or reinstalled.

If the new school has Aladdin Connect then the new school will send the parents/guardians a new access code as they will need to register again for the new school.

Once registered they can add the new account to their app.

Once a child has left the school and the parents/guardians have no other children in the school, the parents/guardians will have 90 days from the date of removal (last day of school) to access that account. If they still have a child in that school then they will still be able to access their account as normal.

If you already have a Connect account, you can add an additional account if, for example, you have another child in a different school, or if you are a staff member and need to add a Connect account for your child.

If you are logged into Connect, tap Menu and then "add school/account".

Click on 'Continue' and you will be brought to the sign in page. 

Enter the email and password for your other account. Note: You will need to have registered for each Connect account via an access code from the school before adding an account. Staff members do not need to register for Aladdin Connect, they simply sign in with their existing username/email and password.

You will be able to select an account by tapping on it to sign in.

For further information, please see the Adding an additional account on Connect cheat sheet.

If you are using an IOS device, you may need to sign into Aladdin on a browser to download or print the Report Card. You can access Aladdin via any web browser, including the browser on your phone or device, by going to aladdin.ie, clicking on "Sign in" then "Parent sign-in" and signing in with the same username and password you use for the app.

If you are accessing the report card via desktop / laptop / PC then you will have a "Print" button that will allow you to print the report card. If there is no print button in the reader itself on the desktop - you will need to use either use ctl/cmd + p or menu - print.

When accessing your reports via the app on Android, you should be brought into your web browser to display the PDF. Within the PDF reader, you can tap on the menu in the top right corner and select 'Download'. This should download the PDF to your phone and allow you to view/print it using your the pdf reader available on your device.

You will have access to your child's data on Aladdin Connect for 90 days after their last day of the school.
If you have a younger child remaining in the school then your child who has left the school will appear as a past pupil in Aladdin Connect until the final child in the family finishes in the school.

You can switch between your two Connect accounts on your laptop once you are using the same email address and password for both accounts.

You sign into Connect on a browser by going to https://www.aladdin.ie/signin/parent

If you are using the same email address and password for both accounts, once you are signed into Connect on your laptop you should see at the top right hand corner a drop down box listing your other Connect accounts. To switch between them, you simply need to click into the account you want to access and you should be brought into it.

If you are not using the same email address and password then you will have to sign in separately into each Connect account.

If staff members or parents keep receiving new device sign in alerts for Aladdin when they sign into Aladdin/Aladdin Connect, you may want to switch these messages off. However, you should think very carefully about doing this as it means you will no longer receive warnings of new sign ins to your Aladdin account, which poses a big risk if someone else got access to your username and password.

To do this, staff can go to the circle in the top right corner, click on ‘Email & password’. Parents go to their Account page on Connect.

Change ‘Send new device sign in warning emails?’ to No and click/tap Save (They will have to enter their password to make the change).