SM Home 4+
SchoolMessenger Home
Reliance Communications, Inc.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
For parents/guardians and students, the easy-to-use app allows users to quickly review any broadcast sent from the SchoolMessenger service (Phone/Email/SMS) in one place, manage your communication preferences and, optionally, Chat with teachers** or report absences.** Requires WIFI or data plan for internet access. Requires SchoolMessenger Communicate service subscription by the school or district.
Note:
SchoolMessenger Home is used for receiving SchoolMessenger Communicate messages sent by district or school personnel.
If you are a school administrator or staff member looking to send messages, please download the SM Sender App.
** Chat and Attendance options may not be available depending on your School/District
Here’s what’s new in v1
Inbox: All broadcasts sent from Communicate to you (Phone/SMS/Email) will also live in the app Inbox giving you one place to easily access all communications regardless of the delivery method. You can search, sort, filter and delete any of these communications
My Profile: This is where you can see your students, manage your communication preferences, Access Help and Delete Your Account
Chat**: Have one on one or class group conversations with teachers
Attendance**: Report your students absent from school or respond to absences not reported to the school
**Optional items and may not be available to all schools
What’s New
Version 2.1.0
Thank you for using SchoolMessenger Home! In this update, we have increased support of the app for the latest OS versions. We made more improvements to the accessibility of the app along with some usability updates like displaying the password requirements before you enter a password, jumping to the next section when entering an absence, and adding the alternate claiming workflow to the Contact screen. We also fixed a couple of minor bugs.
Ratings and Reviews
Never sends confirmation email
It’s a shame that the Ed Tech bar is so low that companies like this can survive. In multiple tries to register my account connected to my kids’ school, I never receive the confirmation email, and the app won’t let you in at all until you complete the confirmation loop. Password reset also doesn’t deliver anything. Obviously some people are able to “use” this thing, but I have checked every folder and spam and everywhere else — they’re just broken.
Developer Response ,
Hello there. It sounds like your email address is on the unsubscribed list. You will need to contact the school and ask them to check their blocked list so they can remove you. It might also be that the school is not sending your email address to our system so we are unable to send a verification as we don't have an email address to send it to. Sorry for the inconvenience.
App kicks me out if I click any chat messages
When I click chats , and hit a message to read , the whole app kicks me out . I can’t even see what my daughters teacher posted . And this is suppose to be the best way to communicate with the teacher , REMIND was way better ! Idk why they changed it.
Developer Response ,
I am very sorry your experience is not up to our standard. Please reach out to us directly at appfeedback@schoolmessenger.com so we can troubleshoot the issue.
School newsletter attachments still don’t work in app
I do like the app because it can push notifications. I can still see school messages even when my normal email delivery gets blocked because it went to spam.
My only issue is that the attachments (typically the weekly newsletter) sent in the messenger app fails to open or allow me to copy the link in a safari browser.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for taking the time to leave this review. I believe we had updated an issue with the newsletters in a recent update. Can you let me know if you are on the latest version and still experiencing an issue? appfeedback@schoolmessenger.com
App Privacy
The developer, Reliance Communications, Inc., 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Reliance Communications, Inc.
- Size
- 35.5 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 PowerSchool. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free