10 ways educators can try the mass notification system to alert students, staff and parents

Mass Notification System is a technological need for today’s educators to immediately deliver fast messages and time-sensitive information through email, SMS and push notifications from mobile app arising from academic, administrative and special situations. The mass communication system can be effectively used by schools and higher education to provide instant updates to students, parents, teachers and staff on all emergency and non-emergency situations to improve productivity and simplify academic and administrative tasks. Here are the ten ways educators can implement the mass notification system and have real benefits:

1. Application & Admission

Automatically keep students and parents informed throughout the admission process from online application form submission, and admission status tracking, to interviews, fee payments, and enrollment.

2. Student Assignment & Assessment

Educators can provide students the option to submit assignments online and send reminders. Faculty can create course schedules, upload assignments, review assignments and share the grades with students and parents.

3. Attendance & Leave
Student attendance is critical to K-12 schools and using RFID and Biometric based attendance system to seamlessly track student attendance on web and mobile devices and resolve issues. Teachers can inform parents by automatic notifications and reminders on attendance, absence or truancy of the child to manage and control classrooms efficiently.    

4. Parent Alerts
Parents can login and view relevant information about their children and also get instant alerts, notifications and reminders by email and SMS on absenteeism or truancy, meetings, grades, discipline, fees, and more.

5. Fees    
Send alerts to students and parents by email and SMS on course fee details with discount and fine, mode of payment, paid or unpaid details and balance. The management can get instant messages on daily fee and late fee collection with fine to improve cash management.

6. Discipline
Educators can track and notify parents in real-time about student’s involvement in discipline incidents with photo from the scene of infractions via iPhone and Android devices in a secure environment.

7. Meetings & Events
This is a useful tool that allows you to send notifications to students, faculty, staff, parents and alumni about specific events, exams or meetings.

8. Emergency
The mass notification solution provides complete emergency notifications and warnings are sent to individuals or groups like students, staff or parents to assess and communicate in unforeseen conditions such as natural calamities, accidents, or holidays to keep the constituents updated in real-time to manage risks and prevent them to the maximum limit, and also reduce losses in a secure environment

9. Library
Students, faculty and staff can get complete library alerts and reminders on due dates, issued and returned books, new arrivals, membership, and fine collection via email, SMS and push notifications.

10. Health
The school management can send real-time health trends and alerts to students, staff, and parents on injuries or illnesses, diseases, vaccination, lab, test results, diet, etc. to prevent health and safety hazards, and maximize student performance.

Creatrix Campus provides the most advanced mobile and cloud-based mass notification solution that notifies and alerts individuals or groups such as administrators, students, teachers, staff and parents on email, SMS alerts and push notifications from iPhone and Android devices to keep them updated in real-time about important information and emergency incidents in the campus and helps educators to provide comprehensive emergency response strategy and ensure a safe resolution to reduce risks and avoid possible losses.