Adding & managing children
Add one or many children to your account, set their school year and subjects, and switch between profiles.
TL;DR — Open Children, click Add child, enter their first name and school year. Repeat for siblings. Switch between children using the selector at the top of the dashboard.
Why child profiles matter
Pathora keeps every child's results, revision items, and analytics separate. Each upload is tagged to one child, so you get per-child progress charts and a clean revision hub for each one — even when siblings share a tablet.
You need at least one child before you can upload a paper.
Add your first child
- From the dashboard sidebar, open Children.
- Click Add child.
- Fill in:
- First name (required) — what we display on results and emails.
- School year (required) — Year 1 through A-Level. Used to pick the right marking criteria.
- Primary subjects (optional) — pre-fills the upload form so you don't have to re-pick.
- Click Save. You'll see the child appear in the list immediately.
School year drives marking strictness. A Year 6 SATs paper is marked very differently from a GCSE paper — picking the right year is the single biggest thing you can do for accurate feedback.
Multiple children
Pathora supports as many children as you want on a single account. Each one gets:
- Their own results history
- Their own revision queue
- Their own analytics
- Independent credit consumption (one upload uses one credit, no matter which child)
If you have more than five children, the dashboard's child switcher becomes a scrollable list — you won't lose any of them off the edge.
Switching between children
Most pages — Dashboard, Results, Revision, Analytics — show data for the currently selected child. The selector lives at the top of the dashboard. Click your child's name to open the dropdown and pick another.
The current child is remembered across sessions on the same device.
Editing a child's details
Open Children, click the child's row, and edit any field. Changes apply to future uploads — past results keep the year and subjects they were marked under so historical reports stay accurate.
Removing a child
Removing a child deletes their profile, all their uploaded papers, all their results, and all their revision items. We email you a confirmation when this happens. There is no undo.
To remove a child:
- Open the child's profile.
- Scroll to Danger zone at the bottom.
- Click Remove child and confirm by typing their first name.
- We'll email you confirmation that the data has been deleted.
My child is between school years — which one should I pick?+
Pick the year matching the paper they are about to take. If you upload a Year 6 SATs practice paper, set the year to Year 6 even if your child is currently in Year 5. You can change it back afterwards.
Does my child need their own login?+
No. Children don't have logins — only parents do. If older students want to mark their own work they sign in with the parent's account.