SIMS InTouch for Academies

Imagine being able to keep parents fully up to date with everything relating to their child’s education, from notifying them of open evening dates to unexpected school closures. Or being able to keep staff members fully informed, wherever they are.

SIMS InTouch combines both SMS messaging and email to automatically and immediately engage all your stakeholders on a wide range of issues, from delivering timetables to students and staff with just a couple of clicks, to managing truancy within 1 screen.

Powerful and easy to use, SIMS InTouch will help deliver real-time parental engagement and direct  savings - 200 phone calls per week at £0.25p each can be replaced with texts at £0.04p each.

View an InTouch demonstration from Principal Product Manager, Nick Finnemore, here.

Key benefits

• Engage hard-to-reach parents
  Inform and update parents instantly, keeping them in the loop as you adapt your academy’s communications to the realities of busy modern lives.
   
• Reduce costs
  Cut the costs of printing and delivering key information, including timetables and detention letters.
   
• Communicate more efficiently
  Send SMS and email messages relating to pupil behaviour, awards for achievement, special education needs, unexpected academy closures, parents evening reminders, unexplained absences and late trip returns.  These system-generated messages automatically draw on information held in SIMS, so there’s no need to re-enter the details into the body of the message.
   
• Make the right impression
  Create the right impression by standardising the way you communicate around and outside the academy, including designs for mail merge templates and the personalisation of bulk communications.
   
• Keep staff members fully informed
  InTouch saves time by presenting the user with a list of linked adults associated to the student, ranging from parents and carers to teachers and pastoral managers.
   
• Create an audit trail
  InTouch allows you to log messages against the student record, ensuring a strong audit trail of all communication.special education needs, unexpected school closures, parents' evening reminders, unexplained absences and late school trip returns
   

SIMS InTouch harnesses the power of SMS and email to take parental engagement to new levels of effectivity. Combined with SIMS Learning Gateway, InTouch can also provide easy access to pupil reports, and a complete communications infrastructure for your academy.