Daily Summary Option for Email Notifications

Many of our parents are getting slammed with notification emails on a daily basis. They want to know when an assignment is added, or when a practice is added or changed, but when you turn on several different notifications and have multiple kids in the school, you have the potential to receive 20+ emails a day.

I would like our parents to have an option in the notifications section to produce a daily, summary email instead of separate emails for each notification. This summary could list all the items the parent wants to receive notifications about in a single email. I envision it being broken down into sections where the notifications would be grouped by category: Academics, Athletics, Activities, etc. I would also want it to be clear which child that notification was for; you could separate the notifications by student, then by category, or you could use a different color for each student's notifications then just list them all under the categories.

There are some things parents may still want to receive immediately, but I think many/most parents would opt to receive a daily summary for most items if it were an option.

  • Rick Geyer
  • Apr 9 2018
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  • Candace Chesler commented
    April 18, 2018 14:08
  • Guest commented
    April 10, 2018 21:07

    Some improved functionality in notifications would be huge, and I love the daily digest option. A weekly digest might even let many schools get out of the business of sending massive weekly pushpages. 

     
    I'd also drill down further and say that we need a few more components of this:
    1. The ability for the school to choose if an alert can be saved for (any or all of) a daily or weekly digest or needs to be pushed out immediately (ex., soccer practice canceled today at 3pm can't wait until a 5pm digest to go out). 
    2. Ability for parents to pick and choose if they get notified of every class's, team's, groups assignments or only certain ones (ex., my kid is on top of science, but I need to check in on history and only care about history assignments; or, mom manages soccer for fall and dad does hockey in the winter, so they don't both need practice reminders for both sports; or, parent only needs to be alerted of activity in robotics community group, not the five others that the child is in). This also would eliminate confusion for parents who look at the My Groups, My Child's Groups and don't know what they are at a glance. 
    3. Ability for parents to sign up for game reminders for sports their kids ARE NOT in ... (ex., everyone is excited about the big football game about the rival, but aren't reminded of schedule or cancellation). 
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