Philippe's design and sketches

This is my first design. I tried to take a pretty straight-forward approach.

The first page is a log-in screen with just a "username" and "password" field.

Once logged in there Ms. Frizzle must select the class she wants to send the permission slip for. Once the class is selected two different side windows (the ones on the right) become enabled. One of them is for options that apply to the entire class (eg. permission slips, schedule, news etc). The other one is for options that apply to individual students, which can be selected after a student is chosen from the drop-down menu.

Ms. Frizzle selects "Permission Slips".

The "Permission Slips" selection directs Ms. Frizzle to a dialog box. The dialog box has two parts. The part on the left lets Ms. Frizzle choose whether she wants to send the permission slip to the entire class and whether they require signatures. She must also select a due date for the signatures. She selects to send it to the entire class and wants all parents to sign.

The right part of the dialog box has a text field for Ms. Frizzle to input the permission slip text. She types it up.

Ms. Frizzle sends the permission slip. 

The parents get an email notifying them about a pending permission slip that requires their signature.

Arnold's mom logs in to the site through the login page.
This brings her to the homepage. She must select which child of hers she wants to see. Below that drop-down menu there is section with "news" or unattended issues that need attention. So connectEd lets Arnold's mom know that there is a permission slip waiting to be signed. She clicks "Go".

After that a dialog box opens. The Permission Slip text is on the right.  On the left she can select either "yes", "no" or "defer".

This is my second design. 

In this design I changed the design of the home screen to improve efficiency.  The flow of the selections goes from left to right. As you click on selections that get more specific you keep getting more slide out menus coming to the right. This keeps things very simple since you never have to go to a new page until the last step. The left slide-outs fold on top of themselves after they have been selected.

This is my third design. It is a stretch to a small screen.

Since text is very hard to read on a small screen I decided to make as many different windows as possible. Almost one per selection. You can follow the flow on the pictures. Almost every choice that has to be made brings Ms. Frizzle to another screen

I also put navigation buttons on the side.