Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Information regarding the email notifications

When you sign onto your child's account, one of the icons at the top of the page is for "E-mail notifications." Once you click on that icon you will be given the opportunity to choose if you wish to have grades and assignments, attendance, teacher comments, school bulletins, or balance alerts sent to one or more email addresses. Please note that we do not use the balance alert function at this time.

You can choose to have the e-mails sent to you daily, once a week, once every two weeks, monthly or never. Whichever time frame you select, you will receive individual e-mails per subject. One of the most common misperceptions is that the e-mails are coming directly from the teachers. This is not so, the e-mails are being sent from the server based on your input. If the information provided needs a discussion or clarification from the teacher, using the reply feature in your e-mail client will not send the e-mail to the teacher. The e-mail will be replied back to the PowerSchool server.

If you need to correspond with the teacher regarding any information provided by the notifications, please either sign onto your child's PowerSchool account and click on the blue name link for the teacher or call the school for an appointment. It might be best to include the teachers' e-mail addresses in your e-mail address book for a quick and easy way to contact the teacher.

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