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TalkingPoints

About this app

The TalkingPoints Teacher app helps teachers reach all family members and guardians, regardless of language, via text messages in 149+ languages. Our translation is done by a combination of human translators and machines, allowing for seamless communication with all of your families.

TalkingPoints helps teachers
• Communicate with non-English speaking family members through automatic 2-way translation
• Quickly send messages to one family member, a group of family members or to the whole class
• Keep their cell phone numbers private by sending text messages through the app
• Attach pictures, videos, polls, and files to text messages to share what students are learning in school
• Preschedule messages to go out when families are available to read them

“Teachers have busy schedules and don’t have a lot of time to learn how to use a new tool, but what I want other educators to know is how easy it is to communicate with parents through TalkingPoints. I love it and use it everyday!” - Ms. Cardenas, ESL teacher

TalkingPoints is free for teachers in the U.S. Sign up today!

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Ratings and reviews

I used this app in my school district without issue last year. Now, everytime I try to sign in, I see the circle spin once and nothing happens. I've un-installed, clear cache, and still can not use the app. Very disappointed since this is the platform my district has spent millions on for us to communicate with families. On a web browser I can log in, but not the app.

The app worked great last year. Now, it doesn't work well at all. Certain functions don't work like finding my class code. My entire class was randomly deleted. I can't even find it under archived or anything. The old messages still exist. The WORST part is that I've sent emails and chats a few days ago and haven't heard anything back. This is absolutely ridiculous.

The app was working great on my previous phone. When I got my new phone and apps were transferred over automatically, it stopped working. I reached out and after a few days of back and forth support I had a zoom meeting with 3 people from talking points. Together they were able to figure out the issue and are now working on a broader fix so others hopefully don't run into this same frustrating issue.

What's new

Welcome! We're always working to make the app better so you can easily engage with your students’ families. This update includes a few bug fixes. Make sure you've got the latest and greatest version of the app!