The truth is that schools are communicating better and a range of different services and software, from the cloud to downloadable apps, are helping to deliver higher standards of education.
We’ve known for a long while that education isn’t just about teachers. It involves a close relationship between all relevant stakeholders, including parents and pupils. Being able to communicate directly with parents means they are kept up to date with what’s happening in their child’s education and have the facility as well as the encouragement to get involved.
Better and wider communication helps brings communities together that may have been contained in their own little silo in the past. That includes those from ethnic minorities as well as people from different socio-economic backgrounds.
The School App
Many educational establishments at all levels of a child’s development have taken on the need for better communication by developing their own school app. In the past, this may have seemed an extravagance. It cost a lot to hire a developer and create an individual piece of software that enabled people to communicate within what is a relatively small community.
The great thing about education communication technology software, however, is that the price has come down considerably in recent times. Part of that is down to competition between providers, part is the increasing sophistication of software solutions that means tailored apps are relatively easy to produce.
More important has been the development of smartphone and tablet technology and much greater connectivity. We are more likely to be carrying around an android or iPhone nowadays and we use it for a variety of everyday communication tasks.
The key here is that software can improve and consolidate your school communication strategy and has a number of significant benefits:
- It allows you to send messages out to users at any time with the minimum of effort.
- It reduces the admin time in reaching out to parents and pupils.
- It allows you greater flexibility because everything can be done electronically. That means you not only maintain your current communication efforts but actually improve them exponentially.
Communication with parents is considered important for any Ofsted report. Having a downloadable school app means you have a centralised tool that delivers on a large part of those requirements. The good news is that school apps nowadays can be tailored to specific needs, branded to match your school’s image and scaled according to your current needs.
Education communication technology software is so much more accessible that many schools are, at a bare minimum, including an app that can be downloaded by parents. This can hooked into your management information system or MIS to provide seamless engagement at all levels for your school.
You can provide up to date menus and curriculum information, reminders of upcoming events and send out urgent notifications when required. At Parentapps, we have worked with a wide range of different schools to help deliver tailored software solutions that enable complete communication at a level never before seen in the education sector.
Contact us today to see how we can change the way you engage with parents and pupils.