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Keep Students on Track With The School Planner App

Supplement your printed custom student planners with The School Planner App. Manage, automate, and integrate your school’s content for iOS, Android, and other web-enabled devices.

With The School Planner App you can:

keep in touch with students, parents, and staff in real time.
keep your students organized and on track.
simplify your school processes.
promote school safety measures.
provide easy access to important information.
promote school events.
build school spirit.
strengthen branding.

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School Planner App Assignments & Documents

Stay In Touch

Push Notifications

Through the mobile-friendly Admin Manager, administrators can send push notifications to their school or district’s users from any phone, tablet or computer from anywhere, anytime.

Newsfeed

The home screen newsfeed includes all of your school or district’s important news, announcements, and updates in a central place users see when they open the app. Teacher notifications that the user has opted-in to receive also display on the home screen newsfeed.

Display Daily Messages

Daily Messages display prominently on the home screen throughout the day and are great for indicating block schedule (A/B) days, early release days or any daily announcements.

Conversations

2-way digital messaging for schools done right. Conversations brings together the ease and familiarity of text message and other popular instant and group messaging platforms with the administrative oversight and controls that are necessary in today’s digital age. With Conversations, teachers can instantly chat directly with individual students and parents or easily create groups to share class documents, materials and assignments, answer questions, inspire engagement and more!

Teacher Notifications

Approved staff can easily, quickly, and safely connect with students and parents with the simplicity and efficiency of text messages and the security of one-way messaging. Teachers can communicate homework, projects, test reminders, plan changes and more, all with proper administrative oversight and reporting capabilities to keep your students and staff safe in today’s connected world.

Integrate Your Automated Feeds

Integrate your school’s automated feeds from RSS, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram as well as your daily/weekly event alerts.

Premium Feature: Voice Dial, Text & Email

Ensure that urgent messages are reaching your stakeholders with the Voice Dial, Text & Email premium feature. This system will help you reach your entire school community when it matters most. With custom contact lists, you can send messages to just the right groups. Simplify administrative tasks by using this time-saving system to call home about absent students. All it takes is a few clicks.

Premium Feature: Video Messages

Personalize your communications with video messages. Push notifications to your school or district’s app can include video for anything from daily announcements, exciting moments around campus or even to supplement a lesson. By default, videos can be up to 30 seconds or contact us to discuss options for longer or even unlimited videos.

Premium Feature: Share! App

Share! App is designed specifically for administrators and staff and allows you to send out notifications through multiple communication channels quickly and easily from your mobile device. Connecting with your school community has never been easier than with Share! App. Easily share content, images, and video across all of your school or district’s communication channels including your school app, social media, website, voice dial, text, and email.

Keep Students Organized and on Track

Assignment Tracker

The digital assignment notebook allows students to quickly and easily keep track of homework, projects, exams, to dos, or any other tasks that need to be completed. Include notes and due dates for each item. Schedule reminder alerts and view all tasks in a month at a glance or list format. Add class schedules and related information such as teacher name, period, dates, and times.

Embed Calendars

Interactive calendars allow users to view events and subscribe to your school or district’s calendars. You can include calendars for general events, athletic teams, parent groups and student clubs. Calendars can be sent to our Content Management team in any format if manual entry is required or setup for automated importing and updating from a 3rd party calendar system that supports iCal.

Interactive Info Pages

Create pages that allow students to quickly and easily organize their student life. Examples include pages for progress tracking, goal setting, personalized timetables, password managers, and checklists. Save time and money on compiling external resources by building them directly into your app.

Easy Access to Important Information

Exhibit Documents

Important documents like your student handbook, permission forms, team rosters, event flyers, and more can be organized in customizable document folders. All of the most popular document types like Word, Excel and PDF are supported. Users have the ability to print or share any documents directly from their device.

Staff Directory

With one-click, stakeholders can easily connect with your teachers, administrators, and support personnel via click-to-call, email, class websites, and approved social media.

Quick Links

Customizable quick links provide instant access to things like your school’s online gradebook system, cafeteria menus, athletic sites, library resources, and more.

Click to Access

With one-click, users can call the school or district office and access the official website and social media pages.

Premium Feature: Custom .app eZLink

Your Custom .app eZLink is an easy-to-remember and simple-to-share gateway that makes finding and downloading your school or district’s app a breeze! It’s your school or district’s name, nickname, mascot, or motto followed by .app that instantly directs any user, on any device, using any browser, to your school or district’s app.

Simplify Processes

Back-to-School Supply Lists

Busy parents can quickly and easily find all of your school’s supply lists and check-off items as they purchase them making back-to-school shopping a breeze. It’s as easy as sending us your supply lists in whatever format you already have them and we’ll take care of the rest.

Custom Forms

Custom forms complete with digital signature collection can be used to conduct surveys, collect permission slips, report absences, and more.

Safety

Hall Passes

With a few clicks on the student’s device, an approved teacher can issue a hall pass that displays the reason for the student to be out of class, the teacher who approved the pass, the student who the pass was issued to, the time and date issued, and a countdown timer for how long the student has been approved to be out of class. Administrators can determine how many approved passes students receive and can revoke or add passes for individual students at any time. Reports allow administrators an easy way to see every hall pass issued and include the ability to filter and sort by teacher, student, reason, date, and time.

My ID

With the My ID feature, students can display their Student ID directly on their mobile device with all of the necessary information needed for your library, cafeteria, and other systems. Student ID’s can be setup to include the student’s name, grade, picture, ID number, and barcode.

Tip Line

The Tip Line tool promotes campus safety and helps to prevent bullying. Students can submit anonymous tips to report concerns about bullying, academic integrity, or suspicious behavior. Tips are securely sent to the proper administrators email address and can include photos, videos, and optional contact information.

Premium Feature: Secured Access

Restrict access to authenticated users with flexible SSO options including Clever, G Suite for Education, Office 365 and more. Secured Access allows you to target, tailor, and restrict content to specific groups of people based on their role or your custom lists.

Events and School Spirit

Event Alerts

This feature will automatically send a push notification with an “at-a-glance” summary of all daily, weekly and/or monthly events. Users can easily decide if they’d like to receive these automatic event alerts by opting in, or out, based on their personal preferences.

Map

Users can view a map marked with your campus and any off-campus event locations. Need directions to an away game or other off-campus event? Using the GPS capabilities of today’s smartphones and tablets, users can easily get directions from wherever they are to any event location.

Pictures

Share pictures in customizable picture galleries that can include either JPG or PNG file types. Your pictures are optimized for mobile viewing and easily uploaded individually or in bulk. Already use another photo sharing source? We can link to those so there is no duplication of effort.

What People Are Saying About Their School App

"Our app provides Heritage High School with a robust, practical, and engaging tool that's easy and fun to use. Our user feedback has been tremendous. Our events calendar sync to our existing system so there's virtually no extra work for any one of our staff. It's fantastic."

Kevin Keena

Integrated Learning Specialist

Heritage High School, Littleton, Colorado

"Our app has not only enhanced our marketing and branding efforts, but has promoted and synced all of our communication efforts which has increased stakeholder (staff, students, parents, community) value of Staley High School."

Clark Mershon

Principal

Staley High School, Kansas City, Missouri

Dedicated Customer Support

Your dedicated Customer Account Manager will be with you every step of the way to ensure ongoing success. You can also give our team call on 888-228-1016 between the times 9:00 – 17:00 CST, or email us customize@schoolplanner.com any time!