SIMS InTouch for Secondary Schools

Imagine 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 staff members fully informed, wherever they are.

With SIMS InTouch you can engage all your 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 - you 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

• Engage hard-to-reach parents
  Inform and update parents instantly, keeping them in the loop as you adapt school 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 school closures, parents' evening reminders, unexplained absences and late school 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 school 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
  InTouch allows you to log messages against the student record, ensuring a strong audit trail of all communication.
   

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 student reports, and a complete communications infrastructure for your school.