What's new in the Thrive Academy app

Drills and homework

Coaches assign a drill as homework to the whole team or to chosen players, with a demo video, steps and a target like 3 sets of 60 seconds. Players check off each set or send a video, and coaches see who did it and reply.

1. Coaches: open Homework. On iPhone it is in Profile, then Development, then Plays and homework. On Android it is on Watch, under Player development.
2. Tap New homework. Record or choose a demo video, or use a clip from your game film, then add the steps and the target.
3. Pick once or every day, and whether players check it off or send a video. Tap Assign homework and your players get a notification.
4. Open a homework to see who is done, watch the videos, tap Send reply, or remind everyone who has not finished.
5. Players: open Homework, check off each set or send a video. The coach's reply lands in Coach notes, where parents see it too.

Weekly coach note for parents

Each week coaches get a ready-to-send note for parents with that week's plays, homework and highlights. On a weekend with no games, the reminder offers an off this weekend note instead. Nothing sends without the coach.

A club director turns this on in Profile, then Power features, then Weekly coach notes.

1. Directors: open Profile, tap Power features, then Weekly coach notes, and switch it on for every team or the teams you pick.
2. Coaches: when the weekly reminder arrives, tap it to open a draft with this week's plays, homework and highlights.
3. Change anything you like and tap Send. It posts to the team's Announcements, and families tap straight into each play, drill or reel.

Homework reminders for coaches

Coaches get a reminder when a team has no homework this week, and when players have sent homework videos that are waiting for a reply. At most one of each a week, never late at night.

Comes with the weekly coach note. A director can switch reminders off on the same screen.

1. Tap the reminder to open Homework for that team.
2. Assign a drill, or reply to the videos players sent.

Send a sign-up link from the roster

Send any player without an account their own sign-up link, right from the roster on your phone.

1. Open the roster. Players who still need an account show Send link.
2. Tap Send link, then Text the link or Copy link.
3. Just added a player? Tap Send sign-up link now.

Link previews in team chat

Links in team chat show a preview card. Links to your club's own games, highlights and clips show a card marked Live, Replay or Upcoming.

1. Paste a link into a team chat and send it.
2. Everyone in the chat sees the card. Tap it to open the link.

Playbooks: draw it, share it, quiz it

Coaches draw plays on the phone, step by step, with moves, passes and a Shoot tool, and share each play with the team. Players watch their spot animate step by step and take a Know your spot quiz. Plays on your other teams are one tap away, and every step of a play shows on one screen.

1. Open Playbook and tap to add a play, then draw each step. Tap Shoot, then the player with the ball, for a shot to the rim. On iPhone you can start an inbounds play from a baseline or sideline set.
2. Save the play and share it with the team. Add a Know your spot quiz so players prove they know where to go.
3. Coach several teams? Pick another team at the top, or tap a team under Plays on your other teams.
4. Use All steps or One row above the steps to choose how a play shows.

Every chat shows its team

Each chat in the Inbox shows its team in full under the chat name, and the tile shows the age group, like 12U or 14U.

Keep streaming while you use your phone

On Android, the game keeps streaming when you leave the app or lock the screen. Tap the Live notification to come back to the camera.

End game is there when you need it

If a camera stops sending during a game, End game stays on the game so the score locks and highlights can start. A game whose camera has stopped also ends on its own, at least half an hour after its scheduled end.

Live taps open at the right moment

Highlights and stats tapped during a live game open at the moment they happened in the game film.

Tournament schedules

When a tournament posts its games, each one goes on the right team's schedule, and each team gets one notification for the update.

A new design

The app is rebuilt around five tabs: Home, Schedule, Inbox, Watch and Profile. Your club's colors run through all of it.

1. Update the app and sign in the way you always do.
2. Use the tab bar at the bottom: Home for what is next, Schedule for every event, Inbox for messages, Watch for games and film, Profile for your teams and settings.
3. On more than one team? Open Profile and tap Switch team.

Inbox, one row per team chat

Every team chat you belong to sits in one list, newest first, with unread chats marked.

1. Tap Inbox.
2. Each team chat is one row. Unread chats show Unread.
3. Tap a row to open that chat, or use Search to find one.

Next Up, with See more

Home opens on what is next for your teams, and one tap shows the events after it.

1. Open Home and find the Up next card.
2. Tap See more to list the events that follow.
3. Tap See less to fold the list back up, or tap any event for details.

RSVP: going, not going, no reply

Answer for any event in one tap. Coaches see who is going, who is not, and who has not replied yet.

1. Open an event from Home or Schedule.
2. Tap Going or Not going.
3. Coaches: the Who's going line shows the count, for example going, not going and no reply.

Tournament days that fill in with real games

A tournament shows up on the schedule as an all-day card as soon as it is booked. When the bracket is posted, the real games with times and courts take its place.

1. Open Schedule and look for the All day tournament card.
2. When the tournament posts its schedule, your team's real games with times and courts replace the card on their own, so nothing shows up twice.
3. Tap a game for its time and court.

Build the schedule from a photo

Take a photo or a screenshot of a schedule, like a tournament bracket or a gym sheet, and the dates, times and opponents come in for you to check before they are added.

1. iPhone: open Schedule, tap Add, then Photo import. Android: open Profile, tap Power features, then Import schedule from a photo. On the web dashboard: Schedule, then Photo Import.
2. Take a photo or choose a screenshot of the schedule, then tap Extract Events.
3. Check the games and practices it found, fix anything that needs it, and tap Import.

Delete your account

You can ask for your account to be deleted from inside the app.

1. Open Profile.
2. iPhone: tap Settings and account, then Delete Account. Android: tap Settings, then Delete account.
3. Confirm, and we take it from there.

Direct messages

Message one person privately: another family on your team, your team's coach, or club staff.

1. Open Inbox and tap New message.
2. Pick a person, or use Search people.
3. Type your message and tap Send.

Team clips

Share photos and short videos with your team, and tag the players in them.

1. Open Watch and tap Team clips.
2. Tap Add a clip and choose a photo or video.
3. Add a caption, tap Tag players to tag who is in it, then tap Add.

Tag plays with timing, speed control and undo

Tag a moment in game film and choose how much to keep before and after it. Move through the game on one scrubber, review from half speed to double speed, and clear a tag with a swipe.

1. Open a game's film and tag a play.
2. Set Before the moment and After the moment (5 seconds each to start).
3. Tap the speed button to move between 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x and 2x.
4. Swipe a tag you made to delete it. Tap Undo if you change your mind.

Game flyers

Turn any game or tournament into a flyer in your club's colors, ready for a story or a post.

1. Open a game or tournament event.
2. Tap Make flyer.
3. Pick Story video, Story image or Square image, then share it.

Tournament win celebration

When a team wins a tournament, the director can put a celebration on that team's Home for everyone to see.

1. Directors: open the tournament event and tap Celebrate result.
2. Pick Champions, Finalists or Division Winners, and add the division and a team clip if you like.
3. The team sees it on Home for seven days. Take down removes it any time.

Share branded highlights

Share a team clip or a tagged play as a video in your club's colors, or as a link.

1. Open a team clip or a tagged play and tap Share.
2. Choose Share video (vertical or wide) or Copy link.
3. Changed your mind? Turn off link stops the link from working.

Message several teams at once

Coach more than one team? Write one message and send it to several team chats in one go. Each team gets its own copy in its own chat.

1. Open Inbox, start a new message and choose Message several teams.
2. Tick each team you want, and pick which chat it posts to for each team.
3. Write the message once and tap Send. You see the result for each team.