School Messaging

School messaging is a set of technologies that people can use to deliver information to many recipients at once. For instance, during a storm, law enforcement officers can notify citizens of life-threatening conditions. Teachers can notify school staff, parents, and students in a moments notice of any important events.
Sometimes, this information is convenient; other times, it's critical.
It's fast, simple, cost effective and easy to use and only requires an Internet connection and subscription to the service. School Messaging can be done either as Voice or SMS Messaging.

Benefits of School Messaging

• A "ready" to use web-based application does not require any software or technical background
• Send multiple messages at once to many different recipients
• Categorize recipients in groups for easy sending messages
• Send and re-send pre-defined messages stored in your "message library"
• No setup fees or contracts to sign
• No hardware or software to buy - easy web interface
• All major cellular/wireless carriers and land lines supported

Features of School Messaging

• Recepit confirmation - Reciept confirmation is supported, and stored for reporting.
• Send emergency class cancellation messages to students and/or parents.
• Notify parents of truancy and/or absences.
• Create parent polls to receive feedback on school performance.
• Remind students of upcoming activities, workshops or due dates.
• Instant messaging: Type your message once and forward it to hundreds or thousands in a matter of seconds
• Guaranteed to deliver the message to all recipients
• Secure and private
• Announce tardy students to parents who wish to be notified.
• Announce upcoming teacher/parent conference dates.

The goal of school messaging is to reach as many recipients: teachers, students or parents, as quickly as possible.
To achieve this goal, it has to take advantage of many different communication methods. Information can be in the form of recorded voice messages, e-mails, sms or text messages or faxes. It can travel over land line or cellular phone networks or the Internet. Delivering the messages also requires a database filled up with contact information and computer and network hardware that can handle lots of data moving at the same time.
Because of all the technical requirements and complexities, broadcast messaging generally starts with a service provider like us. The provider has the equipment and staff needed to take care of all the details. An organization or person that wants to send messages - we'll call this the sender - works with the service provider to deliver information as efficiently as possible.