Get your school app, back to school ready!
Take a look at our school app checklist to ensure your school app is ready for the new academic year.
1. Raise school app awareness
Make sure new parents are aware of your school app, who to ask for support in setting up, and welcome them with a message in the relevant channel.
Remind existing parents too of the benefits and features of your school app as the more parents who use the school app, the more administration time you're likely to save.
2. Remind parents to update their chosen channels
Ensure parents don't miss important information by reminding them to update their notification channel on the school app to their child's new school year group. The best way of doing this would be to send an alert to all users on the Urgent channel.
School app checklist: remind parents to update channels
3. Content Refresh
Your school app is only as good as the information and content on it. So make sure you check that the information below is still relevant, correct and up to date:
Staff contact details
Lunch and dinner menus
Events calendar and club timetable
Online payment link
Other school news
This would also be a good time to remind parents to ensure their details are still up-to-date too. If you haven't already, put a Parent Contact Details form on the app, and send a message to all parents asking them to complete if and when any contact details change.
4. Registration check
If you have registration enabled (the requirement for parents to register and log in before accessing your school app), please check the registration page of your CMS to make sure the new years' information is in place.
Registration can be activated for greater security on all our apps, so if you are interested in this additional functionality, contact our support team for more information.
5. New staff training
If you have new members of staff joining the team this academic year, take advantage of our free and unlimited support and book training for new staff members today. We know how busy everyone within the teaching profession is, and our aim is to reduce your workload not add to it. Therefore, all our training takes place over the phone, we find normally 30 minutes is sufficient to get you up and running. If you have more detailed questions on the functionality of your school app, we can always extend the training session or have further calls later on.
If you would prefer to have face to face training on-site at your school, then we're also more than happy to arrange a convenient time to visit.
Our support team are always here to help so don't hesitate to get in touch.
We hope you've found this school app checklist useful, please forward to friends and colleagues too.
We're always looking for ways to improve our service to you, so if there's any feedback, or support you'd like to see, get in touch with our support team.
