You can add any important dates or events so parents can view and save them to their calendar as easily as possible. A good example of this are your Term Dates, which you should upload a full set of for the academic year. To create a new Event, choose the section you’d like to add your event to then click Create New in the top right. First, we need to enter our event title and description, to let the parents know what it is about.
Next, we can set our event details, setting a start time along with an optional end time and location. You could paste a link to google maps in the Location URL box, for example.
Next, we can set our event preferences, if you want to target the event to specific users then you can click Target Users, or just enable Send to All Users. The last step is to choose if you want to send a notification to parents about the event you have just created. If yes, you also have the option to specify a custom message of up to 2000 characters, using #ParentName and #ChildName to personalise it. Click Save in the top-right corner to publish and save your changes.
Once an event has passed, it will remain visible in the app for 2 weeks, before then moving into the archived section. You can view your archived events by filtering at the top, now we can choose to re-instate this date. This is especially useful for Term Dates, since they may be similar or the same year to year and saves you re-creating them from scratch. To do this, click Actions then Re Use. You’ll notice the Event Editor loads up, allowing us to make any necessary changes to our Date, once you are happy click Save in the top right.
Alternatively, you can remove archived events using Actions and Delete or by selecting in bulk, clicking Group Actions and Delete.