K-12 School Connect 2.0
Device: iOS Universal
Category: Education
Price: Free, Version: 1.6 -> 2.0 (iTunes)
Description:K-12 School Connect is a mission-driven mobile app designed to help School Staff improve communication and secure active participation of parents, students, and alumni. K-12 School Connect is a secure and high-quality mobile app that provides schools of all sizes the capability to provide their own private labeled mobile app to their students, parents, alumni and entire community. K-12 School Connect is designed to allow school staff or even volunteers to quickly and easily configure and manage the app content.
K-12 School Connect has 3 primary objectives. Engage, Involve, and Educate.
Engage
K-12 School Connect provides tools to help you effectively engage with the digital generation by helping you to accomplish the following:
• Digitally Connect with students, parents and alumni
• Notify of Latest School News
• Provide Digital Calendars of Events
• Contact School Staff through built in Messaging
• Publish Principal Thought of Week
• Manage School Video Library including events, video homework, and more
• Recognize School Supporters
• Connect School Community through targeted social blogs
Involve
K-12 School Connect simplifies getting your students, parents and alumni involved in activities of the school by providing simple-to-use automation tools that make it easy for your community to become involved. Our automation tools also reduce staff time needed to collect data and generate reports. Using K-12 School Connect you can:
• Push out digital workflows/forms to users/groups
• Automate Volunteer Recruiting
• Simplify Registration Processes
• Automate Permission forms
• Utilize automatic reminders
• Accept Credit Card Payments
• Generate Back-end Reports saving staff time
• And much more
Educate
Today’s digital generation understands mobile technology and responds well to educators that use this technology to support their classroom efforts. K-12 School Connect has technology that educators can use to help students learn.
• Streamline communication between students, parents, and alumni
• Notify of latest school and classroom events/news
• Provide digital calendar of class milestones including due dates, quiz/test dates, etc.
• Students, parents, or Alumni can easily contact school staff with built in messaging
• Publish Principal Thought of the Week
• Manage Class or Teacher Education Video Library
• Connect students and teachers through targeted class /teacher blogs
• Provide class social blogs to encourage students to interact and learn together
K-12 School Connect has no up-front set-up costs and as low as a $99 per month subscription fee (per school) all without including ads and with a guarantee that your parents’ or students’ data will not be sold or used in any way. In other words, the app provides zero increase to your parents’ and students’ digital footprints.
K-12 School Connect natively supports market leading Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) as well as provides a browser based app for use on personal computers.
The app is also simple to purchase. From your iPad, just download the K-12 School Connect Admin Console App from the Apple App Store. Then sign-up for the monthly subscription option of your choice (no commitment required beyond Month One) and in just a few minutes, you can begin to configure your school’s app. In a month or less, your app and PC accessible site will be available for access by your parents and students as FSG Mobile does all of the work of submitting and updating your app to the App Stores.
What's New
1. Various general bug fixes for iOS and Browser (PC) based App
2. For mobile posting from events, Admin Console is now available on iPhone
3. New PDF post type provides for easy posting of PDF documents, newsletters, and other publications
4. Messaging dialog expands as you type simplifying creation and proofing of larger messages
5. Administrators can message any user by choosing from user list simplifying staff communication
6. Optimization of e-mail pass filters to significantly decrease junk and non-delivery of Connect e-mails
7. Added advanced image sizing intelligence to help post pictures look better on different Connect platforms
8. Social Connect Posts have additional notifications for Likes and Comments creating a true social media environment
9. Multi device notification control so that once you have looked at a notification on one device, badge notification is removed on an other
10. New Global Vertical template feature providing out of the box workflow/form templates simplifying the automation of most commonly used vertical processes.
11. Improved Group and User Sort makes it easier to determine who is in group and users.
12. Option for Open and Closed Groups on all platforms allowing users to choose the groups they wish to belong and be notified about.
13. Automation of changing pending users into actual users reducing the time it takes to convert these users.
14. Many other new features.
K-12 School Connect