School Connexion is an on-line messaging service enabling parents to connect with schools to ensure they are more involved with their children's education and allows school staff and parents to login to a secure website and upload files to other users and download files from their own personal account.

It is perfect for teachers distributing subject homework assignments to the parents of a particular class, for school secretaries ensuring delivery of important newsletters, lunch menus, reports and forms to the parents of a single pupil, an entire year or even the whole school. Staff can even upload files to each other internally or to LEAs, Governors and Parent Teacher Associations.

Parents can log in from home or office, or anywhere with Internet access and download the files available to them or upload files back to staff, i.e. return completed consent slips, forms or sick notes.

A system administrator assigns each user with a unique password and a role (such as teacher, parent, governor, etc). Each role has different permissions; to determine their access rights and whom they are permitted to upload files to, thus parents can only see teachers or staff associated with their children, not other parents.

Key features of School Connexion include:

• The ability to import records and files from other school databases
• Secure and password protected access
• Administrator controlled account management
• Optional email notification when files are available for download
• Option to host it internally or outsource hosting to AVCO Systems
• Access from anywhere with Internet connection
• Supports parents with multiple children in a school.

Key benefits include:

• Parents are more involved in their child's education
• Better communication between schools and parents
• 24/7 operation and access to files
• Guaranteed delivery of letters and files to their intended destination
• Schools can fund the service 100% or even generate additional revenue by charging parents small subscription fees.

Click here to visit the School Connexion site.