Voicebank Phone-in School Noticeboard

Keep Parents, Staff and Students Informed and Up-to-Date

Parents feel greater involvement with their children's school when they are kept up-to-date with the School's activities and changes in schedules or even the curriculum.

Keeping parents informed can be costly and time consuming involving teachers and staff in preparing printed material for distribution either by post or less reliably the students themselves. This is compounded by the production costs whether printed or photocopied.

Easy to Use Phone Interface How much simpler to pick up a phone and add a message to the School's dedicated Voicebank Information Noticeboard. The messages can be added by any member of the staff in possession of the passcode, or the School may have an appointed messageboard administrator who adds new messages, also deleting messages no longer relevant. Parents can be made aware of the number when a child enrols at the school and reminded when student report cards are handed out. Including the number in all school literature will ensure parents, staff and students will be kept fully informed of school activities. School Schedules to Parent Notices Parent Notices, Student and Course Information, Event Notification, Press Releases, Emergency Closure Status Updates and Public Announcements are easily accessible via the Voicebank phone number. The service is particularly useful in keeping the local media informed of upcoming School events with reporters looking for a local interest story able to check for relevant messages.

Emergency Information Line

As an emergency information line Voicebank is invaluable as parents and students will make the number their first port of call when establishing school status during an emergency such as Fire, Flood or heavy Snow. The number can then be used to provide updates on progress as the recovery process takes place.

Alert Notification

Coupled with the optional SMS alerts advising that new messages have been posted, the Voicebank Phone Noticeboard service provides an additional and highly cost effective method of keeping parents, students, teachers and staff up-to-date with School news and information.

Online Conferences and Meetings

Where participants cannot be in the same location, the X-on Teleconferencing service allows staff and educational meetings to be conducted over the phone, with the resultant recording being posted on the School's Voicebank service for later retrieval.

Voice Message Examples

	School Events Timetable
	Course and School Information for New Students and Parents
	Parent/Teacher Meeting Scheduling
	Results of Schools Sporting Events
	Changes to the Curriculum
	Examination Timetables
	School Closure Information and Updates
	Emergency and Incident Information and Progress Reports
	Press and Media Releases