How does an SIS help increase parental involvement in schools?

student information system can help parental involvements at schools

Parents’ participation and involvement play a huge role in student success. It can lead to positive outcomes for both the school and its students. In this article, we will discuss how a School Information System can help increase parental involvement and participation in schools.

There are various ways parents can be more involved and engaged in schools. From volunteering in classrooms, attending school events, and regularly communicating with teachers, to actively participating in their children’s academic progress.

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How to Keep Student Families Happy and Ensure Returning Students

how schools can ensure families stay happy

In our ideal world, for a school, there is no other satisfying moment than to see your student, who used to be a 6th grader, now become a high school graduate. Perhaps you even knew them since Kindergarten! It is a harsh reality that sometimes parents do take their kids out of a school. The reasons behind them enrolling their children in a different school may vary. It could be reasons unrelated to the school’s performance. For instance, parents have to be relocated for career-related reasons hence they have to withdraw their child from the current school. However, there are also parents who are unhappy in their current school which results in families leaving schools. 

Today, we will be discussing efforts that can be made in order to keep student families happy and ensure returning students for the following semesters. Since the students and their families are the reason the school is open, it is important to understand why they may leave and how you can prevent this from happening. 

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How to Private Message from the Parent Portal

One of the great features of the QuickSchools Parent Portal is parent-to-parent private messaging. This system lets parents communicate easily with other parents to discuss school functions or other topics, without having to keep track of a bunch of separate outside email threads. All this is done through the Parent Directory module. Parents can also view each other’s contact information from the same place.

There are just a few steps between logging in and sending a private message. If you’d like to see a step-by-step guide to getting started, please read on!

How to Send a Message

1 – Log into your Parent Portal


2 – Click “Parent Directory”


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New feature: Gradebook for parents

Among the many enhancements made to the gradebook feature, we’ve now switched on the ability for parents to take a look at their children’s gradebooks too. It’s a live, real-time indicator of progress across all the classes that a student takes.

Let’s first take a look at what a teacher would enter into his Intermediary Math 6 class’ gradebook.

As you’ll see, there are now 4 assignments and 1 quiz that has been graded for every student in the Intermediary Math 6 class.

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