Adelyons / Nello / School-day log
Home–school communication · no app or account for school
A home–school communication log for autistic students, without the paper
The school day is the blind spot in most families' records. The teacher writes a note in a folder, the folder comes home on Friday, and by the IEP meeting the hard Tuesday is a half-remembered line. Nello's school-day log link lets the teacher or aide log a hard moment as ABC, or a win, from a link you send, straight into the same record you keep at home.
How it works
- Make the link. In Nello: Export & reports → School-day log link → Make a teacher link. You get a QR code and a link.
- Send it. Text or email it to the teacher or aide, or have them scan the QR at pickup. It can be opened once, within seven days.
- One tap at school. The page asks for one tap to set up their browser. After that it stays connected; no app, no sign-in.
- They log the day. What was happening before, what they saw, what happened after and what helped, where, how intense, how long. Or a win.
- You see it at home. Every entry lands in the family's shared record on every phone, and the ABC data report covers home and school in one set of tables.
- Remove it when the year ends. Linked phones and browsers lists the school's browser; Remove cuts it off.
What a good school entry looks like
| Where | A · before | B · what was seen | C · after / what helped | Int. | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classroom | Transition from free play to the carpet; timer went off | Dropped to the floor, covered ears, cried | Aide sat nearby; joined the carpet after about five minutes | 3 | 6 |
| Lunchroom | Loud cafeteria, a tray was dropped | Hands over ears, left the table, stood by the wall | Ate in the library with one friend | 4 | 15 |
| Specials (gym) | Substitute teacher, different warm-up | Refused to enter, paced the hallway | Walked in with the aide after the warm-up; stayed for the game | 3 | 10 |
| Playground | — | Win: asked a classmate to play tag, played the whole recess | — | — | |
Plain descriptions, times and what helped. No labels, no guesses about why. The reading of why belongs to the team around the table.
Why it is built this way
- No account for school. Teachers will not install an app or make a login for one student's family. A link that works from any browser gets used; anything heavier gets forgotten by October.
- Write-only, enforced by the server. The teacher's browser joins the record as an add-only device. The Adelyons sync server lets it add new entries and refuses everything else: it cannot read past entries, siblings, the calm kit or your notes, and it cannot change or delete anything. The teacher sees the student's first name and a form.
- One-time link. The link carries a one-time code. It works once and lapses seven days after it was made; once a browser has opened it, a forwarded or leaked copy is useless. You can remove the school's browser at any time.
- Same shape as home. School entries are ordinary ABC entries with the setting filled in, so the app's frequency, time-of-day and antecedent tables cover the whole day, and so does the free ABC data sheet if the school prefers paper.
What crosses the network, exactly
When the teacher taps Set up, their browser sends the one-time code and a random browser id to the Adelyons sync server and receives a device token for that family's record. Each entry they send is one JSON change like this, over HTTPS:
{ "entity": "meltdown", "op": "insert",
"patch": { "datetime": "2026-10-15T13:40:00", "setting": "Lunchroom",
"antecedent": "Loud cafeteria", "behavior": "Hands over ears, left the table",
"consequence": "Ate in the library", "intensity": 4, "duration_min": 15,
"child": "" } }
The student's name is not in it; the phones already know whose id that is. The link itself keeps the code, the record id and the first name after the #, which browsers never send to any server, so neither our web logs nor our analytics see them. Entries made while offline wait in the teacher's browser and send on the next visit.
Frequently asked questions
Does the teacher need the Nello app or an account?
No. The link opens a small web page. One tap sets their browser up; after that they log from any phone or computer with no app and no sign-in.
What can the teacher see?
The student's first name and the form. Their browser is add-only: the sync server refuses it any read of the family's record.
How do I stop a teacher link?
In Nello, Export & reports → Share with family lists every linked phone and browser. Tap Remove next to the school's browser. Make a new link each school year or for each new aide; a link is for one browser.
How long does a teacher link last?
Seven days, and it works once: the first browser to open it is connected and the link is used up. That browser stays connected until you remove it. If the week passed before they got to it, make another; it takes two taps.
Is this a daily behavior report?
It replaces the paper one for the parts that matter: what happened, when, where and what helped, in the same ABC format the family logs at home. If the school wants a sheet of its own, the printable ABC chart uses the same columns.
Start the shared record
Nello is a calm, strengths-based autism behavior tracker. Log meltdowns as ABC, sensory moments, sleep, food and wins; share one record across the family's phones; hand the school a link; bring one FBA-ready report to the IEP meeting. Local-first, works offline, no account.