Red Rover K12 4+

User Friendly

If you have substituted for years or you just started, this app is user friendly. After being certified to sub at your school district you can choose schools you would like to sub at. If you know the teachers they could add a job for you and if you’re not available for any reason just go to the “Availability” tab and add a non-recurring event. Also, the app lets you choose the days you would like to work. It’s a great way to form relationships with teachers and schools. You can see your substitute schedule in the “Schedule” tab and if for any reason you can’t make it you can cancel the job without entering a reason, though I don’t recommend you cancel unless necessary. If you’re interested in becoming a teacher, substituting is a great way to try and see a classroom setting and you gain experience.

Jobs already gone

By the time I see them on my app exactly when it notifies me, they are already gone. And I’m seeing jobs at schools I hid. What’s the point of hiding them? I don’t understand preferences when I see jobs from schools I don’t want to work at. I don’t like this app, I’m not getting jobs. I have hidden schools I don’t want to see jobs from, like all the high schools and junior highs and I still see those jobs, so hiding schools doesn’t work. I worked pretty much every day the last 2 years on their old app, now the jobs are gone before I even tap them so they are NOT hitting everyone’s app at the same time. I hear the notification and can’t tap fast enough. And as filters, those don’t work either. I chose one and it goes back to no filters applied. Preferences says default. I guess that means all schools show, even though you have all schools as a choice. Other districts used the frontline app and I never had problems with it. I could actually choose the schools I’d work at and I then never saw jobs from ones I didn’t want to work at. And I could use Sub Alert that helped me see jobs first before they were gone. Your app is not one they support. I still don’t like your app as I’m used to working and picking the jobs I want. Now I’m not working as I can’t even get a job. I worked the first 3 weeks of school last year and pretty much worked every day in jobs I wanted. I’m a retired teacher.

Developer Response ,

Hello - I'd make sure you take a moment to go under School Preferences to hide jobs from the schools you don't want to see. It sounds like you are using the temporary filter, which is designed to help subs in districts that might have hundreds of jobs available all of the time to cull through the list of jobs that are available at that moment. Sounds like you are working at a very competitive district, and at this time of year, jobs can last just a couple of seconds before they are taken.

Only Able to Snag One Job This School Year on App

Ridiculous! Notifications are not at all timely. I have gone on the actual website, shows no jobs available (largest school district in the state) shows no filters applied. I then click on filters button and voila, a list of jobs pops up. Maybe only a couple which is quite odd for a district of 6000 teachers. Sometimes there are my preferred schools too. On my app ? Shows nothing available.
Maybe, just maybe I’ll get a notification on my iOS phone/ watch. Click on phone to see, nope already gone. Now I’m a certified teacher who was on contract for 20 years with this district. We always had smart find express which was efficient and effective as a teacher requesting a suband also working as a sub. Last year after retiring I subbed. Had job calls every single day and first dibs since I was high on the preferred list being a certified teacher. Also on SMF could specify not only the schools but the content, grade level, etc. Not so on this program. Also, this year rarely get a notification and when I do it’s gone in bleeping nanoseconds.