SIMS InTouch for Local Authorities

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

With SIMS InTouch schools can engage all their stakeholders on a wide range of school issues automatically and immediately using both SMS messaging and email.

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

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

Key benefits

• Keep parents in the loop in an instant
  Send SMS and email messages relating to a pupil's behaviour, awards for achievement, special education needs, unexpected school closures, parents evening reminders, unexplained absences, late school trip returns – the list is endless.
   
• Keep school staff members fully informed
  Schools can send messages to staff through SMS or email to ensure they are always up-to-date, wherever they are.  And, should one of their teachers be involved in an emergency, SIMS InTouch can be configured to request immediate assistance.
   
• Drive more parental engagement – with no more resources
  Automating communications is half the picture. SIMS InTouch helps parents to take an active interest in their children and provides easy access to answers to routine questions.
   
• Time saving and easy to use
  Schools can easily create general messages, design templates, personalise bulk communications or use system-generated messages, automatically drawing on information already held in SIMS.
   
• Deliver detailed information for early interventions
  SIMS InTouch saves messages to both pupil and parental contact records, creating a log of messages, responses and non-responses.

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 schools.