SchoolMessenger

PowerSchool Group LLC

About this app

SchoolMessenger

The new SchoolMessenger app gives busy parents, students, and staff a powerful way to stay engaged with their school or district, and connect to each other.

App Features:
- Easy-to-read inbox that captures all SchoolMessenger notifications, and now two-way teacher-parent-student messages (if enabled by school or district)
- Scrollable notification view to review all phone, email, and text content in a single place
- Detailed preference control allows adjusting notification settings
- Push notifications are available for alerts when school or district sends a message
Requirements:
- For notifications, school or district has SchoolMessenger notification service subscription with SchoolMessenger app enabled
- For notifications, valid email address on file with your school or district
- WiFi or data plan for internet access
- Android 4.4 or higher

Note:
SchoolMessenger app is not for sending broadcast messages. If you are a SchoolMessenger Communicate notification customer looking to send broadcast messages, please download the SchoolMessenger Admin sender app.

Ratings and reviews

This app is very helpful when getting information from my school. But the thing that makes it have three stars is it logs me out every time I exit the app and I don't get notifications. I looked everywhere on the log in page and there is no button that says to keep me logged in. I highly reccomend you add this feature so people can get alerts from the school immediately.

Seems ok at first, but usability is annoying. The biggest issue is that it's constantly signing you out, even though you receive notifications. The only real way to deal with that is to have a bad password so that it's easy to sign in, which is a terrible practice that it's leaning someone to. You also have to select each notification otherwise you always have some count on unread notifications, even though you're likely you have received an email so it's just redundant.

This app is mediocre at best. I have messages from teachers on here that still register as "unread", they are from YEARS ago and have been read multiple times. If a child is late for school (even when it's because of a late bus) they are maked absent for the whole day. I can't say enough how much I loathe this app, it's been several years and none of the bugs on this garbage have been fixed.

What’s new

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