Pro & Families Pro
This chapter covers what the Pro edition adds. Everything in the other chapters also applies. Pro is built for an individual professional or a family supporting one student on their own device.
1. One device, one sign-in
Pro uses a single staff PIN (set in Settings → Access & PIN). That PIN is asked for when opening Settings or editing content, keeping the student's setup safe from accidental changes. Everyday communication never asks for the PIN.
You can still keep up to 5 students on the device and switch between them (chapter 00).
2. What Pro adds over School
| Capability | Where | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Custom vocabulary | Student Profile / board tools | Add your own words for a student (up to 100 per student). |
| Board Creator | Settings → Board Creator (asks for PIN) | Build and preview boards (cells use emoji). |
| Edit Mastery Criteria | Settings → Mastery Criteria | Set how many sessions count as mastered and how mastered words are placed. |
| Analytics & progress | Settings → Data & Logs | See progress analytics and export reports to PDF. |
| Eye-gaze / dwell | Settings → Haptic Feedback | Turn on gaze support for a student who selects with their eyes (chapter 04). |
3. Setting up your student at home
A simple path for a family getting started:
- First launch - Simple Start, Guided Setup, choose your state (chapter 00).
- Access & PIN - set your PIN.
- Student Profile - name, grade band, and level.
- Access method - set up touch, switch, gaze, or listening (chapter 04).
- Unit Library - turn on the academic units you want (chapter 02).
- Start communicating (chapter 01) and, when ready, run assessments (chapter 03).
4. Reports you can share
From Settings → Data & Logs, Pro can generate four reports as PDFs - useful for sharing with a student's team at school or in therapy:
- Parent Communication Summary - a plain-English overview of what your child communicated.
- Communication Summary - totals and patterns from real usage.
- Vocabulary Growth Report - new words over time.
- IEP Goal Progress Report - how your child is doing against the IEP goal you set up in the student profile, day by day, with a trend. If no goal is set up yet, the report tells you how to add one; if there's no data in the date range, it says so honestly rather than showing zeros.
Every report is generated from your child's actual recorded usage on this iPad. Chapter 10 walks through each report in detail.
The Clinician edition adds clinical dashboards, JSON export, and clinician-to-student device control; see chapter 06.