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Today’s Topics
- Red Hook Central School District website
– Virtual Backpack
- Parent Portal on eSchoolData
- Guidance Office Facebook page
- SchoolMessenger notifications
- Cancellations.com
Keeping in Touch with Tech Parent University March 8, 2014 Todays - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Keeping in Touch with Tech Parent University March 8, 2014 Todays Topics Red Hook Central School District website Virtual Backpack Parent Portal on eSchoolData Guidance Office Facebook page SchoolMessenger notifications
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Website
- Red Hook Central School District website
– www.redhookcentralschools.org
- Individual teachers’ webpages
– Directory of teachers found at each building’s site
- Search
– Embedded Google Search on our website pages
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Directory for Teacher Web Pages
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Parent Portal - eSchoolData
https://esd-parentportal.mhric.org
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Home page of portal
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Student Profile Page Information Tabs
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Guidance Office Facebook Page
www.facebook.com
- 1. Create an account.
- 2. Search for Red
Hook High School Guidance Office.
- 3. Ask your son or
daughter for help if
- needed.
- 4. Check back
regularly for scholarship information, guidance office updates and other useful news.
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- School-to-home notification system
– Building and district communications – General, Emergency & Attendance call types – Email, Landline, Cell phone, SMS text messaging options available
- How it works
– Contact information stored in eSchoolData
- Updated at 6 a.m. each day
– Communication Job created and sent
- Job Type determines what the system does
- Cannot dial phone numbers that have extensions ex. 845-758-2241 x1234
- SMS Text message
- We MUST have your cell number in eSchoolData AND you MUST
“opt in” to close the loop and have your cell phone included in our text message jobs.
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- How to “opt in” for SMS text messages.
- Instructions available on the district website.
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Creating an Account to Follow RHCSD
- www.twitter.com
- Create an account
- Follow other’s “Tweets”
- 140-character maximum messages
- Open, social media forum
- District does not control other Tweets you may see
within the Twitter feed.
- Find us @rhcsd to follow RHCSD Tweets
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Cancellations.com
- www.cancellations.com
- Search for cancellations by zip code or
- rganization name.
- Create an account and have notifications
delivered to you.
- RHCSD manages its postings to
Cancellations.com.
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- Cancellations.com is a free public service presented by Lazerpro Digital Media Group, Inc.
- Cancellations.com was initially presented to the public in 1997 as the Internet alternative for weather-
related closings and delays for schools, business, local governments, and various other organizations. Our
- fferings have grown to include postings by E-mail allowing messages to be sent to email accounts, cell
phones and pagers.
- The notification system is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for use by
registered members who wish to communicate emergency or priority announcements to the people in their communities, as well as to display schedules and information about their organizations for public
- access. Utilizing our search functions, visitors can access this information at their convenience or register
and subscribe (opt-in) to be notified automatically.
- In 2003, Cancellations.com launched its affiliate program, allowing media resources, such as newspapers,
television stations, radio stations and online portals, to tie our data directly into their websites. This gives schools and organizations the ability to post the information to one location and have it distributed automatically and securely to all of the relevant media outlets, as well as their subscribers.
- Today, 20,000 schools, school districts and organizations use Cancellations.com, and more than 300,000
registered users rely on Cancellations.com to stay informed.
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