SchoolPing

New Era Education Ltd

About this app

Live communication from schools to parents made simple

Improve the relationship between your school and parents with our live communication app. Parents can receive instant updates on their child’s activity, receive documents, videos, photos and be kept up-to-date with the latest school news all in one place.

Designed to support schools in achieving outstanding parental engagement, School Ping can be used on laptops, tablets and mobiles and syncs seamlessly across all devices in real-time. *

Key features for parents
- Receive live school news notifications
- Receive live updates on a child's activity directly from their teacher
- View documents, videos, images, music and even podcasts
- Keep up-to-date & organised by using the SchoolPing calendar
- Book your parent's evening slot instantly with our live parents' evening booking system
- Automate permission slips with our forms feature
- Make payments directly from the app
- Security lockout passcode keeps your account protected

Key features for schools
- Save money, time and trees! No more printing letters and paying for text messaging services or counting money.
- The app can be personalised for each school with the ability to add logo, name, motto and colours
- All school staff can receive unlimited free support from our friendly team
- See which staff and parents have read and received messages with our analytics
- Keep teachers informed too with the additional ability to use SchoolPing for communication between staff
- Send payment requests with message and allow parents to pay directly from their Inbox**
- Messages can be sent directly from the SchoolPing app to parents or colleagues.


Registration
Schools must be subscribed to SchoolPing for teachers and parents to use the app. Login details will be supplied to all users via an email invite or a letter home from your school.

* Network charges may apply (Please check with your network provider)
* Payments provided by Pay360
** Schools can contact New Era UK for this service

Tech Notes
- Requires Android 12 (Snow Cone) or later
- Compatible with Android smartphones

Ratings and reviews

Editing this review as the bug I reported regarding links not opening on recent Android versions has now been fixed; this app works well and is much more convenient than having the school send everything by email, text or carrier pigeon (selected at random) as was the case before. There are still some improvements to be made (such as functionality to allow copying text in messages) but generally speaking a good experience at least from a parent's point of view

I've had this app on various phones for a few years now. I have to say that it never, ever works. Every time I used to click on the write a message button it used to just shutdown the app. Now they have solved that problem and it just freezes instead. Why bother making an app that just doesn't work at all and never has? Have to fire my laptop up every time to use it which is very annoying.

Shocking .. There no auto top up for school dinners when balance is below a certain level , the app won't let me top up just gives a blue ring , once logging out to log back in it always tellse the details are wrong ! Wich there not ! And everytime you top up you need to fill in details which could easily be saved ! Rubbish

What's new

Bug fixes and usability improvements