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Announcements & alerts

Create once. Deliver everywhere.

From a district-wide emergency alert to one classroom’s reminder, School Courier carries every level of school communication on one platform, with role-based publishing and a record your administrators can review.

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Velora School District5:42 a.m.

Example alert: Schools closed today

All buildings are closed because of snow. Activities are canceled.

Three channels, each controllable

Not every message deserves a siren. School Courier separates communication into three channels, so urgency stays meaningful and families never learn to ignore you.

Mass alerts

School-wide closings and emergency broadcasts. Delivered as push, text and email, with an automated call to anyone a text can’t reach.

Group posts

Day-to-day updates from classrooms, teams and clubs, pushed to the families who follow them. Personal, relevant, and mutable per group.

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Direct messages

Private, tracked conversations between families and staff, for the questions that don’t belong on a feed.

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When it can’t wait, one send reaches every family

An administrator writes the alert once. It goes out every way a family can be reached, and the record of what was sent stays in one place.

Mass alerts
Push, text and email from a single send, plus an automated call to anyone a text can’t reach.
Alert history
Every alert from the past year, kept in one place.
Push notifications
On iOS and Android, even when the app is closed.
Per-group alert controls
Families mute any group with one tap of the bell, so the urgent channel stays urgent.
Event reminders
A day-before nudge for group calendar events.
Scheduled posts
Write an announcement now and have it publish later.

District-wide to classroom-deep

Publish “Thanksgiving: No School” to every building in the district with one post. Let each school run its own news, calendar and dining menus. Let every teacher keep their classroom families in the loop. Same platform, same record, right altitude every time.

  • District-wide announcements to every school at once
  • School-level news, events, calendars & dining menus
  • Classroom & team updates from the staff who run them
  • Emergency broadcasts that cut through everything
  • Role-based publishing: administrators, staff & leaders each in their lane
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What it means for your role

District administrators

One message, every school, zero phone trees

Post district-wide (a closing, a holiday, a board update) and it reaches every school at once, while each building keeps its own feed, calendar and groups. Roll your district up under one app or give each school its own branded presence; families with children at different schools switch without re-logging in.

  • District-wide + per-school publishing
  • Every message retained for review
  • One platform to govern instead of ten

Principals & heads of school

Your whole building, informed by Friday afternoon

Early dismissal, picture day, the pep rally: post once to School News and every following family gets the push notification. Teachers handle their own classrooms, coaches their teams, and you can see it all, because it all happens on one school-controlled platform.

  • Building-wide announcements in seconds
  • Classroom & team updates without a second tool
  • Staff-controlled posting, with no rogue channels

Communications directors

Consistent voice, every channel, less busywork

Mass alerts deliver as push, text and email from a single send: create once, deliver everywhere. Writing Help polishes drafts (more detail, clearer & warmer, shorter, grammar) and translates posts into 10 languages, so every family reads your message in their own language.

  • Push, text & email from one send
  • Writing Help + 10-language translation
  • Your brand on the app, not a vendor’s

Technology directors

One vendor to vet, nothing for you to babysit

School Courier is fully hosted and managed: native iOS and Android apps published for you, improvements shipped over the air, passwordless sign-in that eliminates password-reset tickets, and role-based access control with retention and audit trails administrators can actually use.

  • No servers, no maintenance windows for your team
  • Passwordless sign-in (~20 seconds, optional password)
  • Role-based access, retention & auditability

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