Important: Only those features that you have been
granted access to will display. For access to additional features contact
your system administrator. Parents and student users who require
assistance should contact their school or district. 
Important: Only those features that you have been
granted access to will display. For access to additional features contact
your system administrator. Parents and student users who require
assistance should contact their school or district.
The SchoolMessenger app allows schools and school districts to inform you about school-related emergencies, school closures, attendance or other school-related issues.
· As a Teacher you have the ability to invite students, parents and/or guardians to join groups you’ve created, and send chat messages to them directly.
· As a Student, Parent or Guardian you can join a teacher-created group and participate in the classroom discussions. You can also customize how you receive messages those messages.
· For schools subscribing to SchoolMessenger’s SafeArrival system, parents have the ability to report planned absences, late arrivals, early departures to the school in advance
· Roster Data Sync: Districts can use imported Roster Data files to sync users’ SchoolMessenger Communicate account with their SchoolMessenger App account. Users with successfully synced accounts can participate in automatically-created groups created based on classroom data. We’ll refer to these groups in this guide as Roster Data Groups.
You will find all of these messages in an easily-accessible inbox. If you are associated with students in different schools or districts, all matching records will be linked to your account. With flexible preference controls, most kinds of communication can be configured to be accessed exclusively via the SchoolMessenger App.
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There are three types of SchoolMessenger App Users:
School-Affiliated User |
School-Affiliated User with Roster-Synced Data |
General User |
This is a teacher, student, or parent who is directly affiliated with a school or district, and who receives various types of SchoolMessenger Broadcast messages from the school or district. This user will have the ability to retrieve all these messages in the SchoolMessenger App, in addition to participating in the groups that general users also have access to. |
This is a teacher, student, or parent whose school has used imported student, parent, teacher and classroom data to automatically create groups in the App. District admins can restrict teachers to only participate in roster data groups, or can enable the ability for teachers to also create groups with an access code. |
This can be anyone who has signed up to use the SchoolMessenger App and has been granted access to one of the discussion groups created by a teacher. They could be a member of the community who has been invited by a teacher (e.g. an aeronautical engineer offering advice and insights to senior high school students interested in the physics of flight and aircraft design). |
