Veracross Parent Portal Guide

In the "My Children" tab of the Parent Portal, click "Classes & Reports."

Look for "Attendance" under "Reports." 

Please note the following:

• Please remember that all children who are tardy should check in at their division’s front desk.
• While after school activities (Extended Day, Aftercare and enrichments) appear on the child’s record, attendance is not tracked in Veracross for these specific activities.

The five-day calendar at the top of the portal shows events specific to your household.

You can see other school events by clicking the green calendar link on the Parent Portal homepage. 

Athletic calendars are kept on the www.da.org website to allow access for people outside the DA community. You may subscribe to your favorite athletic team's schedule by clicking the red iCal button on the team's schedule page.

Learn how to subscribe to calendars.

Yes. With the exception of athletics, the calendars are the same. Events that are entered in Veracross will sync to the website.

The "Update Family Profile" button will take you to the Household Update Form; here, the screen will show contact information for all the people living at your street address. You may change any information that you see if it is incorrect. (Please do not delete information unless it is no longer valid.)

You may indicate emergency contacts as well as who is authorized to pick up your child.

You may also indicate any changes to your child's health by clicking the "Medical Profile" tab; please make certain that any allergy information is entered here. You will find school policies, such as the Technology Acceptable Use Policy, that require your attention in the "School Policies" tab.

If your family is divorced or separated, children generally appear in the household designated as primary custody. The Veracross database forces us to list children in a single household, even when they might live in two households. In any case, please be assured that all parents will have full information about their children including grade reports, attendance and schedules, and all other correspondence from DA unless we have been requested to do otherwise.

If there is a new separation of your household, please contact Anne Benson. Parental access is denied only if the head of school receives written notification of legal restraints that prohibit access.

To view the family directory, click the "Directories" link at the top of any page of the portal. There are tabs for directories of students, households, and faculty & staff. You can view the directory one grade level at a time or search the directory for a particular child, parent or address. In addition, within in the "Households" tab, you will find a link to locate households near your own.

See above. ("Where is the directory?")

No, the interface is the same for all parents.

Yes! The Veracross Parent Portal is mobile-friendly.

All parents of currently enrolled Durham Academy students and, in cases of remarriage, their current spouses, automatically receive log-ins to the Veracross Parent Portal if they have provided DA with an email address. Parental access is denied only if the head of school receives written notification of legal restraints that prohibit access.

In addition, all current faculty and staff of Durham Academy can access information in Veracross.

• The information for each student is visible only to the parents or guardians with whom DA has been authorized to share it. Other DA families and people outside DA cannot see your child's schedule, attendance or grades.
•  Directory information is visible only to members of the Durham Academy community (current parents, faculty and staff). It is not visible to the public.
•  Veracross includes a full audit log that shows all changes made to the data. We view the log every day to see all changes that have occurred on the previous days(s).
•  The Veracross website is housed in a secure location outside Durham Academy and is maintained seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
• Finally, there are no financially sensitive data in Veracross. We do not keep bank numbers, credit cards or Social Security numbers in Veracross.
• Your password plays a big part in our security. Please choose a password that is hard to guess. A good password contains lowercase and uppercase letters and numbers in what seems like a random pattern. One trick for choosing a good password involves thinking of a phrase such as "Go to the DA Parent Portal!" and then using an abbreviation for the first letter of each word, like this: G2tDAPP.

If your question isn't answered in the User Guide or Frequently Asked Questions, you are welcome to contact Anne Benson.

Yes. We recommend that you do so and retain a copy for your records. Report cards for fall, winter and spring end terms are not mailed to you in hard copy. To print a report card, click "Print to PDF" at the top right of the page. This will open a copy of the grade report in PDF format which you may then save to your laptop or desktop computer.

You may access historic report cards by clicking the My Children link in the menu bar and choosing Student Files. There will be a link to a document titled “Historical Report Cards” which will include all of your child’s report cards from previous years.

Click "My Children" at the top of the Parent Portal, then click "Classes & Reports."

Click "Current Class Schedule" for the entire schedule. Click the "Print to PDF" link in the upper right to print your child's schedule.

Alternatively, if today is a school day and you would like to see only today's schedule, you can click "Daily Schedule" from the "My Children" tab.

Veracross and the DA website are hosted by different companies, and each site serves different functions. Veracross handles student-specific functions like grades, attendance and billing. It is available only to current students, parents, faculty and staff at DA. On the other hand, www.da.org is available to the general public and includes news, athletics schedules and scores, and other information of interest to the broader community.

Yes. You may also access the Veracross Portal through www.da.org by opening the menu in the upper-right corner. Look for the "Veracross Login" button at the top.

You may also access Veracross via the DA app (search for "Durham Academy" in the Apple App Store). Click "Menu" to open the app menu, then look for "Veracross Portal" under the "Pages" heading.

Look for the green "Household Invoice" button beneath "My Household" on the Veracross Parent Portal homepage.