School Push Notification System
At the present time schools are crowded with 100’s of students. An estimate has stated that even an average public school in the USA has more than 500 students.
On the other hand colleges and universities are also overloaded with thousands of students. By all means, effective communication appears to be the toughest challenge for educational institutes, with such huge student strength.
Need for Notifications:
In general, there exist various departments in educational institutions where formal/informal communication is necessary with parents.
For example
- Administrators need to alert parents about quick/emergencies with school-wide notifications, concerned with weather delays and closings.
- Teachers need to send updates about classroom happenings to parents.
- Both Parents/Students need to connect with Admins/ Teachers for their requirements.
Push Notifications are the Hope:
Generally speaking, most smartphones users these days are aware of the push notification system. These Push Notifications allow your app to extend beyond the browser and provides an incredible way of user engagement.
They are capable of doing simple things, such as alert the user to an important event, display an icon and a small piece of text that the user can then click to open up your site.
Push Notifications a built-in feature of the School Management System can help in sending important as-well routine notifications to the parents.
Applications of Push Notifications:
Push Notifications can be used to alert parents / provide info during the following situations
- Event changes/ Cancellations
- Class Dismisses.
- Attendance & leave notifications
- Volunteer Requests
- School Sports Team Updates
- Disease/ Pandemic Notifications
- Progress Card/ Marks Intimations.
- Fees related Notifications
- Parent-Teacher Meeting Intimations.
Benefits of Push Notifications:
User-Specific Engagement:
Push notifications can help in providing the best engagement for its end users, i.e., Parents/Students. User-Specific Push Notifications avoids the need for parents in sticking to the app all the time, and only need to respond to the important notifications.
User-Friendly:
The beauty of Push notifications lies in their user-friendly features. In fact, these notifications avoid the need for navigating the complex interface of the school management system all day. Instead, they provide direct access to the required interface, for both students and parents.
The Notifications are easy to access, and the user need not be tech-savvy for accessing them. They also need minimum effort from the dev team for development and customization.
Deeper Insights:
Push notifications can help in grabbing in-depth analytics of user behavior. This can help in easier identification of which type of notifications are driving much attention to the app.
Equally important, this can help in identifying the modules of the app, which are more engaging and which are not. For this reason, the inputs can help in improvising the app, such that it can be more useful to the end-users.
Brand Promotion:
Push notifications, along with providing updates, can also help in building the brand value of the institution for registered users. This can also help non-registered users, as they also can get the notifications, the marketing team can make use of this user behavior for building relationships with the non-registered users, and an attempt
Why Edecofy?
Edecofy is developed after a thorough, in-depth study of the present schooling system. Our team of experts has researched the popular School ERP systems and identified the gap between expectations and delivery.
Edecofy’s School Push Notification System, allows the parents to keep minute to minute track of all the important events and instances that hold key value to them.
Right from the transport-related issues to notifying the parents about the current development/performance and examination marks, the dynamic school message sending software of Edecofy ensures that the entire information that holds prime value for the parents and admin should be communicated instantly.
Looking for more details? Please visit our website at https://www.edecofy.com, you can also reach us at sales@edecofy.com
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