Websites and Notifications Resources

ParentSquare Services 

ParentSquare is a cloud-based solution allowing teachers to contact students and parents, and the district to conduct mass notifications and school services.

• Classroom Communications is for teachers, students, and parents, providing direct messaging, appointments, volunteer sign-ups, and a secure teacher-student communication app.
• Use Mass Communications for urgent alerts, attendance notifications, social media, and website sharing.
• School Services covers permission slips, events calendar, invoice and payments, secure document sharing, and health screening capabilities.

ParentSquare subscriptions come in three package levels: Essentials, Engage, and Engage Premium.

Finalsite Services 

Finalsite has a suite of products covering your website, mass notification, mobile, and social needs.

• Composer (Website).  Build beautiful website pages in minutes with no coding knowledge required!  Finalsite Composer features drag-and-drop web page building, Create Once, Publish Anywhere (COPE) functionality, a built-in accessibility checker, customizable Search Engine Optimization (SEO) settings, and tiered admin access.  Available predesigned and responsive themes give a modern and simple-to-use experience for end users.
• Mobile App (MA) supports your district’s mobile engagement strategy, helping you connect with your K-12 community anytime, anywhere.
• Mass Notification (MN) software is a reliable and powerful communication tool that provides easy-to-use, streamlined, single-screen, message sending.  With smartphone apps, upgraded email, SMS and text-to-speech messaging, as well as Facebook, Twitter, and RSS integration, it is easier than ever to remain in communication with families, students, and staff.

Apptegy Services 

Apptegy has a suite of products covering your website, mass notification, mobile, and social needs.

• Thrillshare (Website).  Thrillshare is the solution to school marketing, messaging, and communications.  Update your school website, app, social media, and alerts right from your phone.
• Mobile App makes it easy for families and teachers to access essential information.
• Alerts (Notifications) provides faster school alerts and emergency notifications from one simple tool.  With Thrillshare, you can send text messages, voice calls, emails, social media posts, and smartphone push notifications with the click of a button.
• Rooms (Class notification) is a two-way communication and messaging tool integrated directly with your school app.

SchoolMessenger Services 

The SchoolMessenger Web Communications Bundle (WCB) is a suite of products designed to fill your website, mobile, and notification system needs.

• Presence is a website content management system designed for school districts. Presence websites help drive engagement and involvement for the entire community. Assigned district staff can administer, update, and manage your district's website from anywhere. The solution is secure with role-based access and workflow capability. Presence offers in-line editing, a variety of design options, teacher and school-level customization, and integration with popular programs. Features include drag-and-drop layout, legal compliance, permission controls, school calendars, content approval workflows, teacher and school directories, and unlimited page depth.
• Communicate is a district‑wide mass‑notification system that lets schools quickly send voice calls, emails, text messages, and mobile‑app push alerts to parents, students, and staff. It’s designed for both everyday communication and urgent, time‑sensitive alerts, and it integrates with school data systems to automate contact lists.
• Custom Mobile App (CMA) is SchoolMessenger’s mobile application solution. CMA integrates with your website to provide content in a mobile friendly, mobile app to parents and constituents. CMA can also be integrated with student systems to provide robust information to parents.

Sharepoint Online 

Microsoft® SharePoint® allows users to share, discover, manage, organize, and build content on the web. Our service assists a district in implementing and using SharePoint in the cloud.

One can use SharePoint in many ways. You can use it as an intranet for staff, a permanent, well-defined place to share files with teams, a workflow to standardize processes, a collaboration environment, and more! Advanced SharePoint features can process forms, connect with existing data, and share files and content with external users.

Blackboard Connect 5

Connect 5 is a web-based notification system, hosted by the vendor.  General or urgent district/school notifications can be sent via voice call, email, and/or text message.  Automated calls, such as daily attendance, can be also be configured.  Information for the calls is kept updated through a download or data extract. There are no new implementations of Connect 5. Its replacement is Blackboard Mass Notifications (MN). One-time vendor license fees when purchasing licenses for Web Community Manager (WCM), Mobile Communications App (MCA), Mass Notifications (MN), Ally, templates, and related products.