Spacetalk Schools 4+
MGM Wireless
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- Free
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Description
Staying connected with your school is easier than ever with the Spacetalk Schools App!
Top features for families:
- Messaging: Seamlessly receive and respond to school messages.
- News: Stay in the loop with the school news feed.
- Events: Plan ahead with the school events calendar.
- Forms: Easily view and download forms, permission slips, timetables, and sports fixtures.
- Contact: Instantly call your school with the tap of a button.
Why families love it:
- All-in-one app: Access all school communications in one place.
- Instant alerts: Receive notifications for newly posted news stories.
- Personalisation: Customise your preferences for news that matters to you.
Why schools love it:
- On-the-go communication: Easily create messages, news posts, and events anytime, anywhere.
- Measure parent engagement: Uncover your most engaging communication with app analytics.
- Reliable delivery: The app switches to 2-way SMS when connectivity is lost.
About Spacetalk Schools:
Australia’s leading school-to-home communication solution, Spacetalk Schools (formerly MGM Wireless), has been the trusted choice of more than 3,000 schools and 30 million parents across two decades.
For information on our privacy policy, see https://spacetalk.co/pages/privacy-policies
What’s New
Version 3.0.7
- Improvements to the login and registration flows
- Background notification improvements
Ratings and Reviews
App has endless glitches - as good as useless
I cannot reliably get messages from the school. They either do not show at all, or show up as a pop up - but take a month or more to show in the message feed.
Even then, after not using the app over the holidays, I receive a heap of notifications (they only show partial info in the banner) for messages from the school, but cannot read them in the feed. The feed shows old messages but when trying to scroll, the display glitches and jumps back all over the timeline for old messages a year ago and won’t access anything within the last 5 months.
Logged in and out and reinstalled the app. Tried to login online via a browser but no functionality for that. Tried contacting support but doesn’t seem to have any support for apps unless I’m a paying customer. Only the schools seem to get support and as a recipient of their messages/parent I cannot get app support.
Frustrating
Crashes and flashes
As with other reports, the app replaced the previous ‘school star’ app and since then it:
- crashes immediately on clicking notification of new messages
- when reopening the new message is not there
- cannot scroll back through messages as the app just flashes over the current message and can’t scroll back
I previously reinstalled the app after checking that I had the latest IOS version and the problem continues.
Apple just release IOS 16.7.2 which I installed but problem persists. I then reinstall the app again but no change - bugs persist.
Phone is iPhone 12 mini
I note that IOS 17 is out (since Sep 18) and I wonder if MGM only tested this build against this latest IOS version which would be grossly negligent if true.
Currently, I am unable to receive messages from the school and am left to try and guess the importance of a message from the snippet in the notifications.
As the Optus (telco) network is currently down nationally in Australia, today is the day for Spacetalk Schools to shine but instead, it is a waste of space on my device.
Can’t receive messages
The app doesn’t work as intended.
I get a message notification, open the app and it either crashes, or there is no message in the message section of the app. Recent updates, uninstalling and reinstalling, logging in and out and iOS updates have not fixed the issue.
I now miss important updates from my child’s school because of this app.
App Privacy
The developer, MGM Wireless, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- MGM Wireless Holdings Pty Ltd
- Size
- 151.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Spacetalk Ltd.
- Price
- Free