Send personalized messages to family contacts via text message or email including digital attendance postcards that use data analytics to automate interventions.
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Send messages to targeted groups you can choose.
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Create custom messages or use message templates.
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Use template tags to personalize your messages for each student.
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Review parent responses in your Kinbox.
Students in Tier 2 require targeted interventions.
Target Group
You must select a group of students whose families you want to send the digital postcard. You can select all students, search for students, or use other criteria to create groups:
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Select the field by Name to select all students.
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Select the field by a student’s name to select individual or multiple students.
Send Digital Attendance Postcards to Parents
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From the main menu, select Attendance Insights.
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Select Daily.
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Enter the date range to retrieve attendance data:
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Select School Year for the entire school year.
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Select Custom to enter a custom date range.
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Choose the criteria to send the digital postcard. You can customize selections by the following criteria:
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Grade Level
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Daily Tier Level
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All Absences
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Excused Absences
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Unexcused Absences
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Consecutive Absences
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Days Present Rate
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Select the students whose families should receive the digital postcard. You can select all students or individual students.
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Select Send Message, then choose To Parents. For personalized messages, use the following formats:
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Student’s first name - {{student}}
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Total number of days a student was absent - {{total_absences}}
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Click Select Template and choose the message text.
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Click Attach PDF attendance postcard and choose the postcard to attach.
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Click Send.