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Case
Study: Schools & Colleges use text messages to alert
parents to closures & events. |
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Text messaging means that schools and colleges can get
urgent information directly to hundreds of parents and
pupils, 'Right Now'. |
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Text-Connect™
has been adopted by schools & colleges across the
UK to alert parents & pupils to school closures. |
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text messaging applications in schools
& colleges
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Snow
and ice during the Winter caused many schools to
close prematurely or not to open at all, highlighting
the need to be able to contact parents 'on-mass' at
a moments notice. Text messages sent via Text-Connect™
arrive with your parents almost instantly and can also
heard by parents using traditional 'land line' telephones. |
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Lists of mobile numbers are quick upload to your
schools Text-Connect™ account, using simple
text files created from a standard spread sheet. You
can create multiple lists, each for a different group
of parents. Once a list is uploaded you can send a
message to hundreds or thousands of parents using
just a few key strokes.
Equally it's just as quick and simple to send ad-hoc
messages to individuals or small pre defined groups,
making the system perfect for distributing urgent
information to staff both on and off the school premises,
for example "Stranger
Danger" alerts.
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| Your Administrators
and Teachers can log into Text-Connect™
from any computer with an Internet connection so alert
messages can be drafted while working at home. Perfect
if access to the school computers is impossible due
to the weather. |
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gives you 'delivery reports' enabling you to see at
a glance if messages have failed to deliver. This is
particularly useful for pupils suffering disability
with pre arranged transport needs. |
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Of course it's not just the Weather that causes school
closures. School and College users of Text-Connect™
expect to use the system to alert parents to school
closures ranging from Flooding, Heating Breakdown
and infectious illness.
Other applications include event reminders, parents
evenings, or unexpected event cancellations or rearrangements,
for example Sports Days or School Trips.
No hardware or software is needed to be installed
as Text-Connect™
is accessed via your web browser. Staff training to
use Text-Connect™ is minimal due to the
online help and intuitive software design.
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Our school & college clients selected the "Text-Connect™
for Schools" package for "2 way"
send and receive messaging or the "Text-Connect™
Lite" package plus credits as required for
1 way "send only" text messaging.
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