With Community Engagement integration, parents and students can view school messages, alerts, and — with Student Data integration — grades, attendance, and cafeteria balances in the WCM site dashboard.
💡Quick answers
- What can parents see in the Communications dashboard? All school messages (email, text, phone, app) in their Inbox, plus alerts for grades, assignments, and cafeteria balances.
- How do I activate Communications for parents and students? Go to USERS & GROUPS > Settings > Communications in Site Manager and activate the parent and student options.
- What is Student Data integration? A licensed add-on that lets parents view their children's assignments, attendance, grades, and cafeteria balance in the WCM dashboard.
If you are integrated with the Community Engagement solution, your parent and student accounts can see their alerts and messages in the site dashboard Notifications. If your district licenses Student Data integration, parents or guardians also see their children’s student profiles, which include assignments, attendance, grades and cafeteria balance information.
- All school messages — emails, text messages, phone messages, and app messages — are in the Inbox.
- All alerts — low assignment score, cafeteria balance, class grade update, assignment graded, and missing assignment — are in Alerts.
If you want parents and students to take advantage of the integration with your Community Engagement solution, you need to activate them.
- From Site Manager select USERS & GROUPS.
- Select Settings.
- Select Communications.
- Select Inactive to activate the parent and student user roles.