Family mode: AlloFlow for a parent at home
What a parent authoring at home can reach, what stays school-only, and how teachers hand off cleanly.
- Best for
- Families and teachers who coordinate with them
- Typical use
- 5 minutes
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Family mode is the parent-facing way to use AlloFlow: a parent or caregiver authoring support for their own child. It was reviewed and tightened in the August 2026 update, so what a parent can reach is now a decision, not an accident.
If you are a teacher sending work home instead, see Prepare a lesson; this chapter is about a family running AlloFlow themselves.
What a parent gets
Family mode is the authoring experience, with home-appropriate language. A parent can build adapted texts, glossaries, quizzes, visuals, and activities for their child, use the STEAM Lab and Learning Hub tools, and manage everything saved on their own device. Several tools introduce themselves in family terms: the glossary presents as a word helper, the lesson plan as a family guide, and the alignment tools in plain language.
Two things are deliberately kept:
- Class Analytics stays available. A home-schooling parent tracking their own child's progress is the point of the panel. What changed in August 2026: inside it, a parent sees the practice and progress side only. Class roster import and the research-study suite are school surfaces and no longer render in family mode.
- The Adventure panel appears pre-expanded in the sidebar, since a family lesson often centers on it.
What a parent cannot do
These are school-role surfaces, closed to family mode by design:
- starting a live class session (all entry points, including the one inside Guided Mode);
- class rosters, QTI and LMS exports, and the LMS integration section;
- Family Bridge sending and class-session tooling;
- the password-gated Educator Tools remain gated as everywhere else.
Practical guidance
- Everything lives on the family's own device. There is no account, so there is also no recovery from another machine; families who invest real time should use Save Project and keep the file somewhere safe.
- AI setup is the family's choice: their own free Gemini key, running AlloFlow inside Gemini Canvas, or a local model. The setup screen walks through all three. See Troubleshooting.
- Teachers coordinating with families: the cleanest handoff is still a delivered assignment or a single-tool link, not asking a family to reproduce your setup. Family mode shines when the family is driving.