Understanding Your Options: School Signals vs. Toddle

Two Different Approaches to School Communication

Toddle focuses on school communication from a student and teaching-and-learning perspective. School Signals, on the other hand, approaches communication from the viewpoint of the entire school community.

Toddle: Student-Centered Communication

Toddle is mainly a learning management system focused on students, teaching, and learning. Its main features include curriculum planning, assignments, assessments, portfolios, progress reports, student work, and teacher-student workflows. Students have their own accounts to access learning materials, assignments, feedback, and communication with teachers. Communication with families is largely built around these academic areas, helping parents see their child’s portfolios, assignments, reports, classroom activity, progress, and teacher communication.

School Signals: Community-Centered Communication

School Signals works more as a platform for the whole school community. Classroom communication is an important part of the platform, but instead of focusing primarily on the individual student’s academic experience, School Signals centers on the relationships and activities that connect everyone at the school. This includes classrooms, parent groups, clubs, programs, school leadership, events, volunteering, forms, directories, messaging, and school-wide news.

Building a Stronger Sense of School Community

With Toddle, parents can easily see what their child did in science, message the teacher, get announcements, and view their child’s portfolio. However, they might still not feel connected to the wider school community. A sense of community grows when parents can see what other groups are doing, join events, volunteer, interact with organizations, hear from school leaders, and find people and resources. School Signals is designed to make this possible.

Looking Beyond Classroom Communication

While both Toddle and School Signals support communication between teachers and families, School Signals connects classroom communication to the wider school community. Athletics, clubs, parent organizations, and other programs use the same platform rather than relying on separate apps, email threads, or group chats. Coaches can reach team families, club leaders can contact members, parent organizations can plan activities, and school leaders can communicate with the whole school community.