Reasons for Family Groups

Problem: With Family Groups: Cannot identify siblings across the district. With Family Groups: Child safety reasons, easily able to identify all students in family Children's Services emergency removals Court order protection orders With Family Groups, siblings are easily identified to what building and grade level… Without Family Groups, how does a does this happen?

Problem: With Family Groups: Contact for every student, even if it’s the same person. A family with 3 students in a district have the “Mom” contact in the system 3 times, once per student. With Family Groups: Changing the phone number on 1 of the “Mom” records does change the other 2 students. A scenario: A change made to the phone of “Mom” for the elementary student. If that same day, the High School has an emergency need to reach the “Mom”, the phone number will be the correct one. When a 4th student starts in the district, the student can be added to the family group and “inherit” the contacts of their siblings without data entry. Dramatically reduced piles of contacts to add during registration

Problem: With Family Groups: Send multiple items home. Schools send home a many items with the students that could be consolidated to one per family thus reducing expenses and time spent reconciling. Examples include important notices, PTO schedules, Meetings notices and schedules, Misc. order forms (fundraisers, spirit wear order form…)… Without a family group, the Courier functionality is not effective and cost savings cannot be realized.

Problem: With Family Groups: Adding new students to a Parents ProgressBook Account. With Family Groups: The Parents ProgressBook account will have access to each student in the Family Group without having to create tokens and link accounts. When a contacts is removed from the student, that account will instantly no longer have access to the students information.

Problem: With Family Groups: Cannot engage Parents with sensitive student information (discipline, fees, IEP,…) to PA account (unsure of recipient). With Family Groups: Parent accounts tied to contact information provided by parents, the contact information from registration and update forms.

Problem: With Family Groups: Creating and maintaining Parent ProgressBook accounts is time-consuming, prone to error and lack clear identity verification. With Family Groups: Invitation sent from contact record to email address, user self registers.

What if the district does not implement family groups What will not happen as a result of Parent Accounts being linked to contact record Parent accounts will not have to be recreated. Students will not need to be relinked. What if the district does not implement family groups Do not get the benefits described in previous slides Will still be able to add new students to existing parent accounts.