PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE SCHEDULER
Just add your conference times and parents will click to check their time – a win-win!
A school administrator creates a listing for the school, and teachers add and customize their class conference times for signups for parents. Everyone shares the same signup method, and the whole school stays in sync!
Teachers customize time slots with flexible meeting settings (from 20 to 60 minutes). Need a quick break between each meeting? You can add those, too!
Parents schedule conference slots through a simple, user-friendly interface. A parent can include their spouse’s account to the signup. The system prevents double-booking by both parents.
Integrate the conference page to collect online forms. A typical form may collect questions and concerns parents may have prior their conference.
Automatically remind parents 24 hours before their scheduled conference via email and app push alerts.
Need a paper copy? Download attendee lists and the schedule by each classroom with just one click.
A paper-based method often asks parents to indicate their three most preferred times. This leaves parents on the guessing side on what time they will get. The online scheduling puts parents in control of the time they get.
An email-based method where parents send the teacher information at their preferred times quickly clutters the teacher’s inbox. With a parent-teacher online scheduling tool, the teacher does not need to shuffle between tens of emails. A teacher will set their available times and check online what times parents have selected.
While conferences are, in most cases, run at set dates in the school, it is quite common that the teacher’s signup sheets include typos with dates. With the School Signals online scheduling tool, the school’s administrator sets the dates for the school-wide conference, and the classroom teacher enters their available times for conferencing. This reduces the chances of misleading errors.
Rescheduling is a hassle from a teacher’s point of view, often resulting in several time-consuming back-and-forth emails. The digital tools make rescheduling far easier. The teacher can set the timeframe when cancellations and rescheduling are allowed.
Many teachers prefer to collect information from parents before the conference to help them prepare and improve the flow of school-home communication. The School Signals parent-teacher conference signup process seamlessly integrates online form filling into the signup flow. The online forms can be created and published school-wide or individually per classroom.
All conference scheduling tools are available on desktop, mobile and app – and integrated with email and app push notifications.
Effective parent-teacher conference follow-up strategies help schools extend partnership beyond the meeting and reinforce key agreements made during conferences. This post outlines clear roles for school leaders and teachers.
Pre-conference forms help to align expectations and foster school-home dialogue. Post-conference forms show that schools care about the parent experience.
Parents want parent-teacher conferences to be less about one-way reviews of academic assessments and more about teacher-parent dialogue.
Explore the School Signals Help Articles on the Parent-Teacher Conference Feature. 
Explore the School Signals Help Articles on the Parent-Teacher Conference Feature.
