ParentSquare

Description

What is ParentSquare? ParentSquare helps schools and families stay connected and informed—all in one easy place. Whether it’s a quick message from a teacher, an important alert from the district, or a reminder about tomorrow’s field trip, ParentSquare makes sure families never miss a thing. Why families and teachers love ParentSquare: • Simple, easy-to-use app and website • Messages are automatically translated into 190+ languages • Best-in-class safety and security practices • One place for all school updates, alerts, and messages With ParentSquare, families and staff save time and stay connected—so everyone can focus on helping students succeed. ParentSquare for iOS The ParentSquare app makes it easy for families to stay in the loop and engage with their child’s school community. With the app, parents and guardians can: • See school news, classroom updates, and photos • Receive important notices like attendance alerts and cafeteria balances • Message teachers and staff directly • Join group conversations • Sign up for wishlist items, volunteering, and conferences • Respond to absences or tardies* • Pay school-related fees and invoices* * If included with your school's implementation

Recent Reviews

• ★★★★★mochazina

  separate district from school notifications

  with the most recent update i now get notifications from the district despite having turned those off. i only need the ones from the school. daily district level notices are mostly spam. please turn those back off!

• ★★★★★frustratedmomof6

  PLEASE FIX THE NEWEST UPDATE!!!!

  PLEASE FIX THE NEW UPDATE!!! I can’t open anything on the bell with notifications. It says 48 new notifications but every time I click on the ones not opened (or opened) it says “an error occurred…” and I can’t open it and it still has 48 new ones Also on alerts icon there’s a red dot and I click every one of the new alerts but then it reappears with the same one as if I never clicked on it. On messages there’s also a red dot but I opened ever message and it still has the red dot by message icon. Thank you! Our schools use this app and I love it. You can easily reach out to teachers and it’s a very easy to use app. The only thing I really wish they would add is a way to bookmark certain posts. For example, ones that are really important for me, or ones that I can easily go back to if needed, instead of searching through all the posts.. I have 6 kids and in 5 different schools and I get a lot of posts.. some are just info and some require action. It would be SO HELPFUL to be able to bookmark/favorite those certain posts!! Thank you!!!!

• ★★★★★User xyzxyz

  Notifications are worse after interface change.

  They made a change in December and I stopped getting notifications. I was struggling missing notifications and reported the issue. I just got an email June 26 the issue was resolved! Maybe, but I won’t know until September. Terrible turnaround time. Messages constantly get lost, they only come in during the day when people are working and there’s no way to mark for follow up and they are lost in the app when new posts come in, very hard to follow up and find things with multiple children and teachers posting.

• ★★★★★Cintia Salas

  Useful/practical

  Being able to mark the new updates as read it is what was needed. THANK YOU! Great tool and it only got better.

• ★★★★★saabrian

  Overkill

  Why do you need to impose 68 factor authentication every single time a person logged in? Can’t remember for more than 10 minutes?

• ★★★★★dtkim80

  Messages Feature Needs User Customizable Thread Names

  The Messages feature can improve. The problem is, as it stands, the top 4 in my list of 19 threads are titled: “(My name) and 2 more” “(Wife’s name) and 2 more” “(Name, Wife) and 3 more” “(Random Parent) and 29 more” If I need to message my oldest kid’s teacher, I need to sort through each one of these before I know which is the correct thread. It’s clumsy. I never need to know that I am a user in a thread in my list. I seldom need to know my wife is also party to a chat. I would like to name these myself.

• ★★★★★Jweeba86

  Cannot Clear Alert Notifications

  It is so difficult to remove alert notifications for ParentSquare. They do not refresh / clear even after I’ve read the alert - so annoying

• ★★★★★shdunenr

  Proud mom

  Thank you I appreciate Doran school

• ★★★★★Adidas1233467

  I am tired of seeing red on this app

  Everyday, week, month and year this app always has red notifications. I’ve gone though every school news letter. Every single classroom chat. Every single grade. Every single new bulletin. Every single attendance. Every single thing I can think of to make the stupid red number go away. Still the same red number year after year and never going away. I am now on the verge of deleting this because I don’t like apps showing red numbers when I’ve done everything I can do to ensure they go away.

• ★★★★★19,20,4,14,9

  Thanks Abbott

  I am convinced the only reason all of TX schools are forced to use this awful app is because Greg got bribed. This app is impossible to get into. Cant get into my own schools sports team’s “group square” because there is no part of the app that lets search for anything? I need to know when practices are! There is no way is for someone not in a group square to join one themselves, no QR code, no way to make a request. And you get ambushed by an unorganizable amount of notifications. This app is far below its rivals in regards to usability, I have used both Band, MySport, and Remind, who all have a lot more malleability, ParentSquare square wont even let you add a photo to your account profile.