Zunia’s School App and Parent Communication Software for Schools offers a quick and easy to use solution to streamline communication between schools and parents. With its integrated school app, email and SMS capabilities, Zunia enables schools to effortlessly connect with parents, keeping them informed about important updates, events, and announcements. The software’s user-friendly interface allows administrators to efficiently manage and send emails or text messages to parents, ensuring that crucial information reaches them promptly.

How does it work?

Zunia’s Parent Communication Software for Schools is a streamlined solution enhancing educational institutions’ engagement and communication between parents, teachers and school administration. The school App, email and SMS features allow for two way direct communication with students, parents, grandparents, guardians or carers.

Zunia offers the flexibility to communicate with individual students, entire classes, specific campuses, or homerooms, supporting tailored communication with families. Using one platform for all student information, streamlines your school operations, saving valuable teacher and admin time with pre-built email and SMS templates! Zunia takes your parent engagement to the next level.

The Zunia School App keeps parents up to date with the latest newsletter, events, notifications and more. Absences can be logged directly into the Zunia parent portal so you can notify the school of your child’s absence and expected return date. Parents can view invoices and their payment /account history in the App so they can keep up to date with school fees, bills, excursion payments and more. The school app makes parent communication a breeze, , giving parents one easy to use system to view all school correspondence.

What are the benefits of Zunia’s parent communication software for schools?

Manage correspondence

All correspondence between the school and students, as well as their contacts or parents, is meticulously logged within Zunia. This creates an organised and easily retrievable communication history, ensuring transparency and accountability for each child’s education journey.

Manage correspondence

Efficient communication

The software streamlines communication through the school App, Email and SMS, enabling schools to reach students’ contacts promptly and effectively. This also provides real-time updates on student progress, attendance, and behaviour and ensures that important information, updates, and announcements are relayed in a timely manner.

Efficient communication

Zunia School App

The Zunia School App allows schools to communicate with parents and students, providing one place to view all correspondence. Parents have the visibility to track their communication history with emails and SMS’s viewable within the school app. Parents can advise the school via the app if their child is absent which is immediately logged directly into Zunia with no further data entry required. Parents can see up and coming payment and transaction history to stay up to date with their finances.

Zunia School App

Direct messaging

Zunia’s software allows for precise targeting of messages. Schools can communicate with individual students, entire classes, specific campuses, or homerooms, tailoring messages to the appropriate recipients for more relevant communication.

Direct messaging

Time-saving templates

The availability of user-friendly email and SMS templates reduces the time and effort required to create messages. This streamlines the communication process while maintaining a consistent and professional tone.

Time-saving templates

Enhanced parent engagement

By facilitating seamless communication, the software fosters a stronger engagement between schools and parents. Parents are more likely to stay informed and involved in their child’s education when they receive regular real-time updates. This also streamlines administrative tasks for both schools and parents by reducing the need for paper-based communications like newsletters or permission slips.

Enhanced parent engagement

Customisable content

While templates offer a starting point, the software allows for easy customisation of content. Schools can add personal touches to their messages, ensuring they resonate with the school’s unique voice and brand.

Customisable content

Data privacy and security

Built in the cloud with AWS, Zunia prioritises data privacy and security, safeguarding sensitive information shared between schools and parents. This software provides a secure platform, ISO 27001 certified, for sharing confidential information such as grades or disciplinary actions. This ensures compliance with data protection regulations and builds trust among all parties involved.

Data privacy and security

Centralised communication hub

Zunia provides a centralised hub for all communication activities. This reduces the likelihood of important messages being lost in various communication channels, creating a more organised and effective communication process.

Centralised communication hub

Feedback

The software’s communication capabilities can also serve as a feedback tool. Schools can receive responses from parents or contacts, enabling valuable two-way communication toand understanding the concerns or suggestions of the school community.

Feedback

Easy to learn and use

Zunia, designed by educators for educators, is user-friendly and intuitive for both parents and school staff to navigate. Whether used by experienced administrators or first-time users, navigating through its features is intuitive and straightforward.

Easy to learn and use

Use on any device

Zunia’s Parent Communication Software for Schools is designed to be used on any device, anywhere, any time. Whether you’re using computers, tablets, or smartphones, the software’s adaptability ensures a seamless experience across all platforms. This flexibility empowers administrators and staff to efficiently manage communication from any location, be it the office, while on the move, or within the comforts of their homes.

Use on any device

Reliable support

Zunia offers ongoing comprehensive technical support. The dedicated IT support team is ready to assist users with any enquiries or challenges they might encounter while navigating the software. Schools are assigned a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) to help guide you in harnessing specific features, troubleshooting issues, or maximising the software’s potential.

Reliable support

Zunia’s Parent Communication Software for Schools is designed with a comprehensive feature set that emphasises ease of use, flexibility, and efficiency, catering to the diverse communication needs of modern K-12 schools. By using this software, parents can actively participate and monitor their child’s educational journey by staying up to date and engaged with school activities.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can school admins access parent communication data?

Yes. Zunia provides administrators with oversight abilities to review teacher communications and pull reports.

Do parents need to download an app to use this parent communication software?

Zunia offers parents and schools the flexibility of interacting in multiple ways including via a parent web portal and via the free Zunia school app. The mobile app is the easiest way to stay up to date and informed with instant notifications and access to your child’s data. Zunia also offers mobile-responsive web access for convenience and accessibility.

Is this parent communication software secure?

It is paramount to ensure that parent communication with schools is secure. Zunia is hosted by AWS, ensuring security in the cloud and achieves this through the use of data encryption as well as adhering to family privacy regulations. All of Zunia functions and modules are “secure by design” adopting a host of the latest design principles and techniques to leverage our cloud-native AWS architecture to keep communications safe.

How can parent communication software for schools improve parent engagement?

By providing easy channels for sharing updates, resources, event info, and direct messaging with families, it directly supports parent engagement and involvement. By removing barriers to parent information, and providing relevant information in close to real-time, the whole parent community becomes more involved in and supportive of their child’s learning and development.

What is parent communication software?

It’s a platform that allows schools to easily communicate with parents via multiple channels including email, text, voice calls, school app etc.

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