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News
January 2016
iPhone App
The anxiously awaited <a href=“https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/silent-dismissal/id1050691346?mt=8” target=“_blank”>iPhone version of the Silent Dismissal Parent Connect app</a> is now available in the Apple App Store.
It offers all of the same features as the <a href=“https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcsinc.silentdismissal&hl=en” target=“_blnak”>Android Parent Connect app</a>, including: Basic Features
- View Student Profile including name spelling, classroom assignment, grade level
- Current student setting:
- Not Dismissed
- Explicit Dismissal Method for Current Day
- Dismissal Time when Called
All Access Features may be restricted by school policy
- Update Student Profile
- Set the default method for each weekday on a go-forward basis
- Adjust student details including grade, classroom, carpool number, and name spelling
- Dismiss Student from Phone when inside geo-fence location defined by school
- Set alternate explicit dismissal method for the day, e.g, change from carpool to aftercare, assign ride home with friend
More Parent Features
The latest version of the Silent Dismissal Parent Connect App provide the greatest access methods to date for parents.
Parents may now set the default dismissal method for the students by day of the week. These settings remain in effect until changed in the future. For example, presume that something has changed at the house and for foreseeable future the child needs to ride the bus on Tuesdays. With a one time setting in the Parent Connect app, the student default for Tuesday will be the bus selected by the parent.
Parents still have the ability to institute a single day override method on Tuesday to change from the defined bus to an alternate method.
Parents have more control and school staff are relieved of the burden of routinely updating student profiles.
Parent Web Connect Access
For schools who want to provide most of the features of the Parent Connect smart phone app to any parents without a smart phone, Silent Dismissal may now be configured to allow parents access via the web.
As with the Parent Connect App, parents may associate multiple students, set explicit daily method overrides, and manage student default dismissal profiles all through a familiar web browser interface. Parents can also see messages posted to their associated students' classrooms, groups, and the entire school.
Parent web access does not provide a method for parents to dismiss students within a geo-fence boundary and will not provide the upcoming app alert notifications.
Parent Connect Web access is currently in use at select beta test schools and will be available to all clients for the 2016-2017 school year. Silent Dismissal Parent Web Connect will be priced at an additional $2.00 per student license to be paid by the school. The service may be added at any time during the school year. Once added, any additional regular Silent Dismissal student licenses will be priced at the then current rate plus $2.00.