Difference between revisions of "Category:Communications"

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Revision as of 13:53, 6 May 2014

PARS can be used for both internal and external communications. Parents can be contacted regarding absence or acheivements, or messages can be sent internally for various reasons. PARS also has various alerts, which will automatically be sent when certain criteria are hit such as a pupil achieving 5 positive behaviour incidents in a week (you can define how and when these alerts are sent).

The communication features are described in brief below, with a link to a wiki page that goes into more detail about each feature. Each link that you can click is coloured and emboldened like this (you can't click on this one).

Usage

  • Sending internal messages
  • Contacting parents
  • Reporting on contacts
  • Automating reports
  • Emailing re: homework
  • Emergency contacts
  • Contacting parents re: detentions
  • Assistance request

Configuration

If you wish to send emails via PARS then you need to enter your SMTP details - this can be done via the preferences in PARS.

If you wish to send SMS messages via PARS then you will need to create an account with Text Anywhere (the SMS provider that we work with) and then enter your account details into PARS. You can access Text Anywhere's website and enter your details into PARS both via the configure SMS page. Texts from Text Anywhere cost approximately 3 pence each.

Generic messages can be stored to a message bank so that staff do not have to recreate them every time they want to send a message.

  • Behaviour alerts
  • Notices alert groups
  • Behaviour referrals
  • SMS - grounds & outcomes