# How do I send and track permission slips?

Go to Manage Permission Slips (/permission-slips/admin).

Source: https://www.studentdirectory.app/help/admins/permission-slips
Last updated: 2026-11-04

*From the School Administrator manual, "Permission Slips".*

Go to **Manage Permission Slips** (`/permission-slips/admin`).

Click **+ Add Permission Slip**, fill in the details and a "required by" date, and optionally scope
it to an Audience (leave blank for every student at the school). The body uses the same formatting
toolbar as Notices ([Notices](/help/admins/notices)) — headings, lists, and bold text all show up
correctly both on-screen and in the downloaded PDF. For each of their children the slip targets, a
parent answers **Yes** or **No** (a parent can say no, for example to a field trip they do not want
their child to attend, and may add an optional reason), then taps **Submit**. A parent can change any
answer until the slip closes — a couple of days after its required-by date — and the answer that
stands at that point is the final one; after that the slip is read-only for them.

- **Responses** — click the "granted, denied" summary next to any slip to open its response page. It
  shows three counts — **Granted**, **Denied** and **No response** — and a list of every student the
  slip targets. Denials are listed first, highlighted in red with the reason the parent gave (if
  any), then students with no response yet, then granted ones. You are **not** notified when a parent
  denies permission; this page is where you see it. (A student whose family has not answered yet
  counts under **No response**; the slip's own list page only shows granted/denied counts.)
- **PDF** — generates a print-ready PDF of the slip (Letter size by default), with your formatting
  intact, for a family that needs a physical copy; an A4 version is also available if you need it for
  an international/non-US audience. A long slip spans multiple pages rather than losing content, and
  a wide table shrinks its own text to stay readable instead of running off the page. A parent's copy
  also lists each of their own students by name with **Permission: YES**, **Permission: NO** (with the
  reason, if given) or **UNDETERMINED** (no answer yet); an admin who is not a parent of a targeted
  student gets the slip without that list.
  **Hebrew works in the PDF:** a Hebrew school name, title, body, table, student name or reason
  prints as real Hebrew, right to left (a Hebrew paragraph is right-aligned, and lines mixing Hebrew
  with English or numbers keep each part readable). Other non-Latin alphabets (Arabic, Cyrillic,
  Chinese, ...) are not supported in PDFs yet and print as `?` for those characters; the web page
  itself shows them normally.
- **Edit** / delete as with other content types.

**SwiftUI app:** Admins see a **+** button on the Permission Slips tab to create a new slip (same
Title/Body/Audience/Required-by fields as the web form; the Required-by date can't be before today). This is the *only* Permission Slips
capability the native app has — **editing or deleting an existing slip is web-only**; opening an
existing slip in the app always shows the same parent-facing "respond and view PDF" screen everyone
else sees, with no pencil icon or delete option, even for an admin. As an admin you can open every
slip at your school this way, including one whose Audience doesn't include your own children (the
screen simply lists no children to answer for; the PDF still downloads). Use `/permission-slips/admin`
on the web for any change to a slip you've already created.