Being able to communicate to parents (and students) via email is a given in most schools. Despite the rise of multiple communication methods adopted by students en-masse like Facebook messenger, Instagram, Twitter and the like, schools rely primarily on email to communicate with students. I believe that schools need to adapt to the changing paradigm of students communication and embrace instant messaging tools - but I will leave that to another day!
The go-to tool for email for most people is Outlook. To email multiple parents requires set-up time - gathering emails then adding them one at a time to form an email group may be a worthwhile investment if it is a group that you contact frequently, but this does not allow for much flexibility in the audience of the email.
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Using emails in Seqta provides many advantages over Outlook.
The go-to tool for email for most people is Outlook. To email multiple parents requires set-up time - gathering emails then adding them one at a time to form an email group may be a worthwhile investment if it is a group that you contact frequently, but this does not allow for much flexibility in the audience of the email.
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Using emails in Seqta provides many advantages over Outlook.
- Much easier to choose your recipients - no need to know their email address
- Ability to send to students, guardians or both
- Flexibility in who you send to
- Formatting can be customised for a professional look
- Easy to choose students individually, by Seqta group, by house, year, roll group or class
- Other staff members can view your email if saved a s a template to edit if needed by a Head of Department or Deputy before it is sent out.
Here are the details:
- Go to the Administration workspace
- Select Correspondence
- Select email
- Type the email, including merge fields (eg Dear John rather than Dear Parents)
- Select the students
- Choose who the email is going to - the students, their guardians or both
- Write a subject for the email
- Preview the email
- Select Process
- Enter the same number as Seqta says will be sent and select OK