Oversight on Communication
Student information and parent records are verified in School Signals. You will always know who is talking. There is no anonymous posting or hiding behind usernames. All community posts can be moderated for approval.
SCHOOL FEED
School Feed brings district announcements, school updates, and classroom communication into one place.
One platform for all school communication, from District level news to school-wide updates, and from Classroom reminders to planning committee discussions. All posts are in the School Feed, and contextually in their respective communication hubs.
Every post and message is translated into parents’ home languages, keeping all families informed and engaged, and helping administrators support diverse school communities. Notifications (email, text, voice, push) alert on new updates.
True communication is more than receiving announcements. Families can respond and ask questions in the School Feed. Privacy safeguards and moderation tools enable administrators to review and manage conversations, maintaining a safe environment for your school community.
Student information and parent records are verified in School Signals. You will always know who is talking. There is no anonymous posting or hiding behind usernames. All community posts can be moderated for approval.
Make a post district-wide to all or selected schools, school-wide, or pinpoint the post to grade levels, classroom, after-school club or a parent group. Want to just share information with teachers and staff? No problem. School Signals unlocks internal school communication, too.
Critical Alerts keep your district or school informed on school closures, severe weather, or safety concerns. Messages are fast, direct, and easy to send, delivered instantly with text and voice. Language translations are instant; all messages, including voice, are delivered in the parent’s language. Enable two-way communication for your community’s questions.
Your Monday mornings are busy! Schedule your posts school-wide or for a classroom or PTA, and stop worrying about a missed timeframe!
District news and school updates are automatically delivered in parents’ home languages. And parents can write feed posts/comments in their home language; the translation works both ways.
Share everyday school updates by email and app notifications, and elevate priority messages with text and voice outreach. Critical alerts override parents’ notification preferences to ensure time-sensitive information reaches families. Learn more about School Notifications.
The AI Assist is your built-in content creation helper in the School Feed. Simply provide a prompt, choose your preferred tone of voice, and let the AI do the heavy lifting!
| Platform | Unified Feed for Updates | District-Level Targeting (Multi-School Posts) | School-wide Posts | Classroom Posts | Group / PTA Posts | Two-Way Engagement on Posts | Multimedia Posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School Signals | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| ParentSquare | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Bloomz | ◐ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| ClassDojo | ◐ | ❌ | ◔ | ✅ | ◔ | ◐ | ✅ |
| Remind | ◔ | ❌ | ◐ | ◐ | ◔ | ◐ | ◐ |
| TalkingPoints | ❌ | ❌ | ◔ | ◐ | ❌ | ✅ | ◐ |
| SchoolStatus | ❌ | ❌ | ◔ | ◔ | ❌ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Smore | ❌ | ❌ | ◔ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Apptegy | ◐ | ◐ | ✅ | ◔ | ◔ | ◔ | ✅ |
| Feature | School Signals | ParentSquare | Bloomz | ClassDojo | Remind | TalkingPoints | SchoolStatus | Smore | Apptegy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unified feed (school, classroom, groups) | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ◐ |
| District-level targeting (multi-school posts) | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ◐ |
| Post targeting levels (district, school, class, group, staff) | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ◔ | ◔ | ◐ | ❌ | ◐ |
| Critical Alerts (Emergency Notifications) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ◐ | ◐ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Post scheduling | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ◐ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Rich media (photos, video, documents) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ✅ | ✅ |
| AI writing assistant | ✅ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Two-way communication (enable/disable) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ✅ | ◐ | ❌ | ◐ |
| Threaded comments | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Positive Reactions | ✅ | ◐ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Follow a post (notifications) | ✅ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Save a post | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Post/reply approval | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ◐ | ◐ | ❌ | ◐ |
| Admin can block user from posting | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ❌ | ◐ |
| User-level blocking | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Report a post | ✅ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Foul language detection | ✅ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| App push notifications | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Email notifications | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Text message notifications | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ◐ |
| Voice message notifications | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Multilingual voice messages | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Post translation | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ✅ | ◐ | ❌ | ◐ |
| Spanish UI | ✅ (instant) | ❌ | ✅ (sent to AI) | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ❌ | ◐ |
| View member posts | ✅ | ◐ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Delivery reports / read receipts | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ |
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School district communication leaders can push important district news to all their schools or selected schools. District news and updates are shared with all administrators, teachers, staff, and parents in the applicable schools. Community members receive a notification with app push, email, and text and voice message (if a post is marked as Priority). Critical posts reach everyone, even those who have not activated their School Signals accounts.
The School Signals district post is served contextually to all members on their school platform. Members don’t have to visit a district website to get information; districts can post all information in School Signals where information is labeled as District News.
The school district communication leader can also set whether comments to the post are allowed or disallowed. Comments can be monitored and set for approval, in which case the district chooses to publish the helpful comments that add to the information or answer a commonly asked question.
Schools can choose how parents participate in community feeds. You have four configuration options:
Allow parent posts — Parents can create posts in selected or all feeds. AI can be set to monitor posts.
Allow with moderation — Parents can post, but their posts and comments require admin approval before becoming visible to others. As an admin you can choose the posts and comments that are helpful for the community.
Posts disabled — Parents can view content but cannot create posts.
Posts and comments disabled — Parents can view updates but cannot post or comment; comment threads are automatically closed.
Additionally, you can restrict posting privileges for an individual parent account if they have violated your school’s code of conduct.
The School Feed content is monitored by an AI tool that school admins can set as strict, lax, or turn off entirely.
When on, the system stops posts and comments that include concerning expressions, foul language, or profanity.
School Admins review the content and can release the post. The best practice is to visit the School Feed daily to manually view and engage with posts and comments.
You will have tools in place to block a community member from posting to the feed, if need be. School Signals customer support is not responsible for monitoring content.
School community members who have logged into School Signals receive email and app push notifications when a new post is made. Priority posts and Critical alerts are additionally sent with text message and voice message. When a post is made to the School Feed, a notification goes out to school community members.
You can add up to 10 photos and videos per post. If you want to share more pictures, we recommend sharing them in a photo gallery.
AI is the latest development in the school communication space. School Signals provides AI tools for
School Feed posts are auto-translated with AI Translate for parents who do speak English as their first language. The posts are automatically translated in parents’ news & updates feeds based on the parent’s language set in their My Account. Voice messages are sent in parents’ language.
The AI Assist provides writing help to craft school and classroom feed posts. We include a modern AI post-generation tool in the Add Post interface that writes a post from a prompt. You can also choose a tone of voice. The system does not flag the post as AI-generated, and you can edit any AI-generated text. For transparency, let your school community know when AI was used.
Additionally, AI is utilized to monitor the School Feed content to filter out any concerning posts that may need manual review. It is the school’s choice to use the AI Monitor tool; School Admin has access to the feed settings to turn the AI Monitor on or off, and to adjust its detection scale. Learn more about AI-assisted school communication for school leaders and teachers.
You want to get your messages delivered. Each School Feed post includes a delivery report. You can also access a Delivery Reports page to view reports within your chosen date range and export them.
