Attendance Management
Attendance Management made easy! Send Unexplained Absence text messages and emails from your SMS with a couple of clicks. Get replies directly into the SMS. Just a few clicks for your daily attendance routine.
Send out texts and emails
School-links integrates with your SMS's electronic attendance system. Instead of hours on the phone, you can notify parents of absent children in one go with a couple of clicks.
Receive Immediate Feedback
Parents can reply immediately to explain the absence, straight from their mobile phones. Their replies come straight back into your SMS ready to tick off.
Done and Dusted
Relax. School-links has taken the hard work out of attendance management. Parents notified, absences explained, kids safe: job done.
Quick and Easy to Use
It's quick, a couple of clicks and you're done. It's easy – send the unexplained absence messages, and receive replies, all within your SMS. No more chasing parents by phone.
Save Time and Money
Sending text messages electronically to all caregivers of absent students in a few clicks is much faster than calling parents one by one. It's also cheaper, especially when you need to call parents on their mobile phones. You'll have more time for other things.
Approved and Supported
School-links' Early Notification service is Ministry of Education approved. It integrates with the most popular SMSs, like Musac, KAMAR, Assembly, and eTap. And it's supported by knowledgeable people on a toll-free 0800 phone number.
Features at a Glance
- Secure portal to collect pre-emptive absentee notifications
- Text message and email absence notifications to caregivers
- Collect replies by text message or web form from email
- Integrates with Ministry of Education-approved SMSs such as Musac, KAMAR, Assembly, and eTap
- Replies route directly back to your SMS, streamlining processing
- Web-based reporting tools to see historical absences
- Truancy reporting tool to see absences for individual student over time
- Attendance officer role allowing specific access to attendance data (for truancy officers or attendance staff)
- Free technical support (0800 333 480)
- Online training and support for attendance officers