A student contact can have one of four permission levels:
Parent, Family, Approved Pickup, or Emergency Contact
Except for emergency contacts, each individual contact can create their own brightwheel account with <a "href="https://help.mybrightwheel.com/en/articles/1551943-contact-types-parents-family-approved-pickups-and-emergency-contacts">varying levels of access
Programs have three ways to invite student contacts to join their program and create their own brightwheel account: Email, SMS Text Message, and manually with a 10-digit code (Parent contact types only). When a student contact is invited to join brightwheel, it’s essential that the same email or phone number was used to create the account.