School Apps Guide
Get your School App ready to launch to your school community
Help new parents and families download your School App
Make sure your school community has downloaded the SchoolAppsNZ app and are connected with your school.
You can share our handy install link via email and Facebook, and add it to your website with one of our download images. Please get in touch if you you'd like an image made for your School App.
Click on the image to watch our video on downloading the SchoolAppsNZ App.
Make your Alerts POP: Add images to your Alert Notifications
This could be useful for....
- Learner journeys and keeping parents informed of child's work and activities
- Visual Class blogging
- Sending community notices
This feature is live now. You can find it when you go to send a new Alert.
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Time to Get Your App Ready for School With Our Handy Tips Below:
School App Administrators
Set up new Administrators and send out their passwords set up/resets. Remove any staff members that have left the school.
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Alert groups
Update your Alert Groups with any new groups for 2022 and delete old or irrelevant groups.
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Alert Groups Subscriptions
Remind parents to update their alerts groups - particularly for Year Levels, Classrooms and Sports, and to subscribe to any new groups that may ave been added.
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Adding Links and PDFs to your School App
How to add Links and PDFs to Alerts
Term Dates
Ensure your Term Dates have been updated to 2022. You can also include public holidays and Teacher Only days.
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Calendar
Update your calendar with relevant 2022 events.
If your Calendar is linked to a Google Calendar please make any changes directly in the Google Calendar and these will pull into the app.
If you don't have a Google Calendar linked up to your App get in touch and we'll help you get this set up.
Contacts
Check these are up-to-date and any new staff members have been added. Delete any staff who are no longer at the school.
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Absentees
Ensure your email address, phone number, and cell phone if you use the SMS option, are all up-to-date.
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Uniform Shop on your School Website
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