![]() ![]() ![]() You can view previous reminders from Attendance > Call-In Absence Reminders.įor a long time SchoolInsight has supported automatic app notifications to parents when instructor’s mark students absent. Those that have not received a reminder are selected automatically. When sending reminders manually, you can select which students you’d like to include. Manual attendance reminders can be triggered from: Different times can be set for each cycle day. If using scheduled reminders, select the time of day at which the reminder should go out. Pick the type of attendance (daily or period) and attendance codes that you’d like to trigger reminders. Once the template is created, configure the reminder settings from:Īttendance > Options > Send Reminders to Parents to Call-In Absences A full list of available placeholders is available when editing the template. For example, if you type inside curly brackets, the system will replace it with the appropriate student’s name in each email, app notification, and text message. In addition to static text, this template supports a more personalized message through placeholders. A voice recording can be added if you’d like to include voice calls. App notifications and text messages also include a link to the body. “Subject” is used as the subject line of the email, text of the app notification, and body of the text message. ![]() The template works just like creating an announcement. To start using attendance call-in reminders, navigate to School Admin Main > Message Templates (formally letter/email templates) and configure the Call-In Absence Reminder template. We have some more features planned, so keep an eye on the news page. We think these tools will decrease the labor required to record attendance and increase the speed with which parents call in absences. Later in the day, if some parents still haven’t called, school admin can manually trigger an additional reminder. After receiving the reminder, most parents call, and school admin modify attendance accordingly. Reminders are sent via email, app notification, text message, and voice call, based on each parent’s communication preferences. At 8:30, EPC identifies students marked absent and uses a message template to notify parent contacts, and ask them to call the office. School admin then import period attendance into daily attendance and make modifications based on parent phone calls, or notes sent to the office. Instructor attendance notifications can help schools operationalize this. A typical workflow would be asking instructors to take period attendance by a set time, say 8:00 AM. Reminders also stream through the TeacherEase app that parents already use.Īttendance call-in reminders can be triggered manually or scheduled to run at a specific time each day. Parents receive attendance call-in reminders from phone numbers they recognize and through channels they prefer greatly increasing message reliability. If changes are made after the scheduled file transfer then the message goes to the wrong recipients.ĮPC’s deep integration within SchoolInsight allows it to use the most up-to-date attendance and contact information. ![]() Integrations with third-party autodialers are naturally error-prone as they depend on one-time file transfers of parent contact and student attendance information. Instead of calling each parent individually, most use an autodialer to remind parents to call the office. When students are absent, schools often need to determine the cause. The Enhanced Parent Communication (EPC) module can be used to automatically remind parents to call in student absences. Remind Parents to Call-In Absences with Enhanced Parent Communication ![]()
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