Name: ParentSquare
Price: 3000 USD
Rating: 8 (1 reviews)
Author: ParentSquare

Help Desk

Live Chat

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Academic Advising

Alumni Management

School Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Desktop Publishing

Enterprise Legal Management

Meeting Management

Workflow

Enterprise

Accounting

Crypto Asset Management

Merger and Acquisition

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Storage

Consulting and Advisory Services

Data Center Virtualization

Fraud Detection

Graph Database

IT Asset Disposal

Infrastructure Capacity Planning

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed Hosting

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Network Behavior Analysis

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

SaaS Management

Security Analytics

Software-Defined WAN

System Monitoring

Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

Affiliate

All-in-One Marketing

App Store Optimization (ASO)

Computer-Assisted Translation

Content Management

Contest Management

Customer Journey Mapping

Digital Asset Management

Email Marketing

Headless CMS

Marketing Automation

Press Release Management

Product Information Management (PIM)

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Communication Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Quote to Cash

eCommerce Analytics

Sales

Camp Management

Clinical Data Management

Dental

Financial Services CRM

Internet of Medical Things

Loan Servicing

Patient Engagement

Warranty Management

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ParentSquare is a communication platform designed to facilitate engagement and collaboration between K-12 schools, families, teachers, and administrators. According to the vendor, ParentSquare offers a range of tools and features that aim to streamline communication, empower teachers, involve families in their students' success, and strengthen the connection between schools and families. This product is intended for K-12 schools of various sizes, from individual schools to large school districts. Education professionals, school administrators, teachers, parents and families, as well as school districts, are among the target users of ParentSquare.

## Key Features

**Mass Notifications**: According to the vendor, ParentSquare provides tools for district leaders to maximize engagement and ensure consistency. It allows users to send important alerts to specific groups or broadcast messages across all channels. Additionally, users can set up message templates in advance and manage internal and external social posts through the platform.

**Classroom Communications**: The vendor states that ParentSquare empowers teachers to effectively reach every family by offering various tools and channels. Teachers can conveniently message parents privately or initiate group conversations. They can also add sign-up slots to posts for volunteering or supplies, as well as increase participation in parent-teacher conferences with time slot sign-ups and reminders. Furthermore, ParentSquare enables the sending of posts, messages, and alerts to students through the StudentSquare app, while also providing a directory to facilitate connections between parents, teachers, and staff.

**School Services**: ParentSquare allows users to embed interactive forms, documents, and other services to increase response rates and participation, according to the vendor. It offers secure embedding of permission slips or forms requiring a signature into posts and the ability to add time slot sign-ups for appointments and material pick-ups. The platform also enables the sending of invoices and payment requests for field trips and supplies. Additionally, ParentSquare can automatically notify parents regarding student-specific scenarios such as attendance or lunch balances. The vendor claims that using ParentSquare for sending confidential, student-specific documents electronically can save time and money.

**School Websites**: According to the vendor, ParentSquare provides an intuitive website tool to manage content easily. Users can publish media-rich posts and urgent alerts to multiple channels, select from flexible designs that showcase the school's brand, and assign user rights for website and messaging permissions. The platform also facilitates the migration of existing content and ensures ADA compliance. Additionally, ParentSquare allows for pushing content to unlimited social media feeds and calendars, while providing translation tools to reach all families in their preferred language.

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Companies offering UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) present a combination of a software platform and outsourcing of responsibility for enterprise messaging, voice, conferencing, and (fairly well) all communication technology, primarily to prevent front-loading of costs and gain cost-control thereafter, and also to provide users with a standardized, reliable service.

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)

Cloud PBX

A cloud PBX system is based on cloud computing technology where data is stored and transferred over the intenet without any need for on-site PBX equipment

Hosted PBX

Hosted telephony infrastructure obviated the need for local PBX hardware

Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

IVR is a phone menu allowing callers to interact with the system through voice and keypad

Directory of employee names

Voice directory of all employees for self-service dialing

Call Management

Answering rules

Ability to enter rules to route calls to main number or other extensions in case of absence

Call recording

Automatic recording of inbound and outbound calls

Call park

Ability to hold calls in virtual location and subsequently access from any phone in system

Call screening

Ability to block numbers or send calls directly to voicemail

Message alerts

Receive SMS and email message notifications for voice and fax messages

Business SMS/External Messaging

Online Fax

Ability to send and receive faxes over the internet

Voicemail Transcription

AI-powered voice-to-text transcription of voicemails

Mobile apps

Mobile app for iOS

Mobile app for Android

Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software

Features related to the performance, reliability & compatibility of web conferencing and webinar (online events) software.

High quality audio

High quality audio connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.

High quality video

High quality video connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.

Online Meetings / Events

Features related to hosting and attending meetings and events online.

Scheduling

Users can schedule meetings ahead of time and schedule regular or recurring meetings.

Calendar integration

Scheduling capabilities integrate with users’ Calendars.

Meeting initiation

Meetings can be easily initiated, whether they are scheduled or on the fly.

Record meetings / events

Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.

Screen Sharing

Features related to remote screen sharing capabilities.

Desktop sharing

Presenters can remotely share a view of their desktop with attendees.

Online Events Collaboration

Features related to collaboration between attendees during web conferences, webinars, and other online events.

Live chat

Participants can use one-on-one and group instant messaging to communicate privately or selectively during meetings.

Online Events Security

Features related to the security of meetings and other events held via web conferencing/webinar software.

User authentication

Administrators can require users to authenticate their identities before joining a meeting.

Participant roles & permissions

Administrators can grant users different levels of access to conferences, as moderators, presenters, attendees, or participants. Permissions can be set for individual users, or based on user role/group.

Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration

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Centralized communications management

All voice, chat, and video features can be managed from one central platform.

Team messaging

Team members can send each other messages.

Team document sharing

Documents can be shared with other team members.

Call and meeting analytics

Analytics and reporting are available about both calls and meetings.

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ParentSquare

Overview

What is ParentSquare?