SM Home

PowerSchool Group LLC

About this app

For parents/guardians and students, the easy-to-use app allows users to quickly review any broadcast sent from the SchoolMessenger service (Phone/Email/SMS) in one place, manage your communication preferences and, optionally, Chat with teachers** or report absences.** Requires WIFI or data plan for internet access. Requires SchoolMessenger Communicate service subscription by the school or district.
Note:
SchoolMessenger Home is used for receiving SchoolMessenger Communicate messages sent by district or school personnel.
If you are a school administrator or staff member looking to send messages, please download the SM Sender App.
** Chat and Attendance options may not be available depending on your School/District

Ratings and reviews

Always crashing, so annoying. I don't know why the school board is using this useless app when a lot of parents cannot even report their children's absence or late, I still end up calling the school. There is no option to delete multiple messages, I have to do it one at a time which is very tedious. I always get a notification from my phone that the app 'not working properly'.

This app can only be installed on certain phones. For Samsung S10 it says "This app won't work for your device". S10 isn’t an ancient phone. All other apps can be installed on it. Installed it on S23. How the heck do you report an absence? Its a joke that this has been approved by QA? Youtube videos shows an attendance option. This app shows nothing. Same with the website.

This is a terrible app! When this was being rolled out to the DSBONE board, it sounded great. If my child is late for a class, the only option I have is to indicate it's for a full day! No option to indicate a specific period or provide a reason. Also, the absence reason in reporting ahead of time needs to be expanded. Example: medical appointment, out of town appointment. Please fix this as right now it only serves to notify me and does not allow for any useful reporting.

What’s new

Thank you for using the SchoolMessenger Home App! This update includes a couple of minor back end changes to support future releases.