SMS for Schools
These days most everybody uses a cellphone or any mobile device which can send and receive messages from anywhere. And because of this reality, it can also be the perfect platform for schools to send out information messages regarding a student's education, activities, schedules, and other important notifications that schools send out to parents and students alike, in a very cheap and effective manner. SMS as school communication system could really be an attractive option for school-parent communications.
Text messaging can be very beneficial to schools that use them in notifying students and parents about functions, activities and other important information. Whether it is a cancellation of classes, private disclosure of results of examinations, important announcements, and promotional issues, SMS can be used to disseminate this information to all parties concerned. SMS can also be used to help students in their needs. On the other hand, parents and students can also use SMS to seek help or to make inquiries about personal or academic issues. If they are sent notifications by the school, they can promptly reply and the message will immediately be sent to the school inbox. Student problems can be dealt with privately using SMS, where students can report incidences of bullying or they can seek counsel with their problems at home.
Sometimes it is not good for children to be using mobile phones because of uncertain health effects, that is why it is much safer if the school notifications are addressed to parents. If a school manages this test messaging properly, it will greatly benefit the school. Schools should use technology because it makes school communications arrive at a higher and broader level. Text messaging for school alert systems is also ideal in bulk when a single message needs to be delivered to everyone or every parent concerned. It can also send messages to a particular group in the whole school, a sports team for instance, and the best is the one on one contact with every parents and student involved in that school.
It will give way for students to have private communications with school authorities regarding his problems in school and out of school. Messaging the school can be done at any convenient time not like when doing a face to face consultation which would be difficult to find time for and sometimes can even be a stressful thing to do. Mobile devices has the ability to track messages and notifications sent by the school so that they can monitor exactly when students or parents receive messages. It is comparable to a school audit system.
There are many ways when SMS technology can be implemented in a school and more so now with more advancements, messages can be sent from your PC, or can be integrated seamlessly into any existing system or software. Advanced solutions are already available that handles needs of SMS communications.
