Parent Alert System

Parent Alert System - Overview
The optional Parent Alert System automates telephone calls, cell phone texts, and email messages to the students' families.   Click the link below to ...
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Configure Alerts
Clicking on the Configure Alerts button brings up the form shown below for performing one-time initial set-up tasks:     Caller ID is the phone number ...
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One Time Alerts
From the One Time Alerts tab, click the button New One-Time Alert to open the alert definition form.    
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Choosing Alert Recipients
Choosing Alert Recipients By default, all of the parents, students, and staff of the current school will receive the message that you set up.  If you wa...
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Filters
Adding Additional Recipient Filters Clicking on the Select Filters button in the upper right-hand corner of the form opens the form shown below.   ...
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Defining the Alert Message
  Subject contains the contents of the subject line for the email.   Short Text contains the contents of the cell phone text message.  It is limited to 1...
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Setting the Delivery Time for the Alert
Before saving the alert message, you can set the delivery time by clicking on the Set Delivery Time button in the upper right-hand corner of the form.  The ...
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Record Voice
By default the Full Message Text will be read over the phone by a relatively natural-sounding computer voice.  If you want to record a message with your own...
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Main Control Screen
The alert now shows up in the main control screen:     If you click on the gear symbol to the right of the message you have the following options:   ...
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Delivery Report
      For completed alerts, a report of numbers actually reached is available.  Access the report by clicking on the gear symbol to the right of th...
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