Using SPN as a listserve for school news

There are two ways our site provides "listserve-like" functionality.

In the first case, information can be pushed to SPN users from your school. The message center allows messages to be sent to groups - you are not sending an email to a list email address, but rather you are using our internal messaging feature to reach members in SPN school groups. Messages can be sent to classroom, grade or school level groups and this makes it easy to send highly relevant messages (second screenshot in this tour). Users get an email notice when they receive a message in their SPN Inbox. In order to get these messages, parents from your school would need to sign-up to SPN and complete their school profile - they will then get messages sent to school groups.

In the second case, SPN users can pull information from either Blogs or Forums. Lets assume that under Forums/School Message Boards, you create a message board for your school (add new topic - enter your school name). SPN parent-users from your school can then set-up the "Notify me when updated" feature for this forum and they will then get an email when this specific forum is updated. Similarly parent-users can set-up notification for Blogs created by PTA members or Room Parents from your school (third screenshot in this tour). Enabling parents to pull information from various forums or blogs helps them to get access to the most relevant information. Please note that our default security settings only allow parents to view content posted by users from their own schools.

We will be happy to help you use these features - so please feel free to email us.