the company said it would integrate with that.
Ellen
Ellen Baru
Director of Technology
The Cathedral School
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025
Phone: 212-316-7447
Fax: 212-316-7558
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>Tom:
>
>Wow! Thank you for the information. The fact that School Messenger ASP
>Plus integrates well with your database is nice. Wonder if it is
>limited to just Senior Systems or not. I agree that we don't want
>parents to have to log in to another system to keep their information
>up-to-date. Presently they login to our website to update their data.
>
>Thanks again!
>
>Jeff
>
>Tom Jordan wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Elmwood Franklin is using School Messenger ASP Plus.
>>
>> Support has been terrific. They worked with us to set up the automatic
>> nightly update which connects with our Senior Systems database and it
>> works perfectly. Any name, phone or email address changes entered into
>> Senior Systems today, will be updated into the School Messenger program
>> tonight. We feel that makes the alert system as up to date as possible
>and
>> doesn't involve any additional work by a member of our school staff.
>> Parents let us know when there's a change in phone number or email
>address
>> and that change is made by one person in Senior Systems and the change
>of
>> information is carried over automatically to School Messenger.
>>
>> We've done some testing with the entire school list and are pleased with
>> the speed at which the calls are made and emails are sent out. Reports
>are
>> detailed.
>>
>> As I write this, our Head is sending out an email to our parents
>regarding
>> MRSA. He thought sending this information via email would be timely and
>a
>> good use for our new School Messenger system. Families without email
>> addresses in our system will be mailed the same information.
>>
>> We also carefully looked at Instant Alert and National Notification
>> Network (3N) and decided that School Messenger provides us with all of
>the
>> features we really need. We felt that is is important for the school to
>> have control over the numbers and addresses rather than having parents
>log
>> in to the system and have the control. That could be a good feature for
>> some schools but Elmwood Franklin is able to manage the phone numbers
>and
>> email addresses in-house using our existing SIS with no additional
>effort.
>> We know that there is current, accurate contact information in our alert
>> system and don't have to rely on parents to take the initiative to make
>> changes.
>>
>> So far School Messenger is doing all that they said they would do and
>very
>> pleasantly.
>>
>> Tom Jordan
>> Director of Technology
>> Elmwood Franklin School
>> 104 New Amsterdam Ave.
>> Buffalo, NY 14216
>>
>> tjordan@elmwoodfranklin.org
>>
>> 716-877-5035 ext 120
>>
>>
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