E-Communication+with+Parents

=Session 3:=

EdLine (with secure logon)
Online Service company CMS Make by some people from GradeQuick Publishing students assessments, class information, homework, and weekly reports

SchoolMessenger
Alert Phone Email and SMS, no limit on # of contacts per person

WhippleHill
PushPages-Give logs as to who receives, whether they bounce hard or soft. (Some spam blockers block pushpages.) Push Page prevents AOL from blocking your domain. iCal and vCal downloads –you can filter

Blackbaud Suite with a full NetCommunity (their net piece)
Reads off Razor's Edge Sends by grade level Parent's inter in data over the net community.

eNotify - gives detailed report of what constituents get the mailing, open rates, click rates, bounce reports. They watch blacklists and make sure whitelists have finalsite on them. Sync with outlook and PDA with calendars, have automatic alerts to your cell via SMS and email from calendars.
 * finalsite**

Alert Now
For Emergency contact. Test phone numbers. Corrections to assistant and parents send 8 numbers. Good service.

Weekly email with links to the internal (password protected) website- sent by registrar.
Three portals, one for fac, one for students, one for parents.

Questions
Hard to determine what is school generated email and "spam" generated from parents. What is acceptable to email about parents (pack list for trips, larger parts of information)? How many people are able to email parents at your school? Trying to get them to go to the web, now. How do parents update their email addresses and who is responsible of making sure they are correct? How do families handle their home networks? How do they set up their web security for optimizing readability? Are you fully paperless? Do you follow-up with paper copies?

Updating Parent Contact Informtion
Infosnap- Once a year update process for parent info. With go into SOME module in Blackbaud- EE7, but not Razor'sEdge or Financial Edge. You have to export and import for updates. WhipporHill- Parents can update their own info.

Legal issues with Electronic Records and Communication
NAIS (Spring 2007 )- careful with the legal issues

Parents Communication with Teacher
Wherever Whenever

School Guidelines Around Family Communication
If it's a paragraph long, call. Personal prefer phone over written. Issues by phone; reminders and details by email. Careful of legal implications of communication.

Class A for scheduling Jim Cohen.