Notifications are so powerful that they have their own help site! Click here to visit.

The SchoolBlocks notification feature offers multiple outbound options to ensure your messages are seen. Use this tool to schedule posts for the future that appear on your website, in email, as a notification on the SchoolBlocks app or as SMS and even on your Facebook feed.

Your home page as well as any sub-pages, groups or departments can be setup to have their own audiences. This enables you to identify recipients when you choose email or phone notifications options.

If you choose to send a notification with email and/or phone alerts, you'll have to select your audience. For more on audiences, view this help page.

Click here for to do the walkthrough on a separate page.

User Types

• Staff & Students: Staff and students can be synced using a group or OU. This can be done at the district, school or even department or group level.
• Parents: It's a bit tricky but there is a way to include your parents from your student information system!
  • Steps to make it happen:
    • Create an Active Directory group or OU for parents. Feel free to create a grade specific group to give more granularity to notification creators. Limit this group to zero permissions.
    • Include the group(s) in your sync with Google or Microsoft and again give it no permissions or access to any tools. Then, when you seek to connect parents, there will be a group or OU for them as an option in SchoolBlocks!
  • To connect parents with their students, we will be releasing an automated import solution in the spring of 2024.

Notifications with BrightArrow

The SchoolBlocks notification is free and focused on community building through convenient outreach mechanisms. If you're looking for best-in-class student-information-system integrated than look no further than our partner, Bright Arrow. They have the most robust truancy framework in the industry and is available through SchoolBlocks at a very reasonable fee. Contact sales@schoolblocks.com to learn more.

Step-by-Step Instructions for Adding a Notification

From the ‘Add content’ screen select ‘Notify’, it will look one of two ways depending if you are on Grid or Terrace pages.’

• To add a Facebook channel select the ‘+’ icon to manage your notification channels and follow the instructions for linking your Facebook account.
• Within the ‘Notify’’ screen you will see your updated notification channels. Scroll over the channels to display the name.
• Select the notification and/or content type you would like to send. Please note you cannot select both ‘Website Banner’ and ‘Website Overlay’. Otherwise you can select as many or as few notification types as you wish.
• You can now type your message in the text box. If you would like to add an image to your Facebook channel you can upload an image. Currently Facebook is the only channel type that the image upload option will display for and that images will be shown in.
• All content types can be published immediately or scheduled for a future publish date and time.
• Select ‘Save’ and your message will be sent or scheduled to be sent to your selected channels.
• You can see your posting history by scrolling down. Your posting history will show you where you posted, what the post included (text and image if applicable), and when the post was posted. It also allows you to delete or repost a post.