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1. Push Notifications for Effective School-
Parent Communications
Present day schools are crowded with 100’s of students. An estimate has stated that even an average
public school in USA has more than 500 students. On the other hand colleges and universities are also
over-loaded with thousands of students. Effective communication appears to be the toughest challenge
for educational institutes, with such huge student strength.
Need for Notifications:
There exist various departments in educational institutions where formal/informal communication is
necessary with parents.
For example
 Administrators need to alert parents about quick/emergency with school-wide notifications,
concerned with weather delays and closings.
 Teachers need to send updates about classroom happenings to parents.
 Both Parents/Students need to connect with Admins/ Teachers for their requirements.
Push Notifications are the Hope:
Most of the smart phones users these days are aware of the push notification system. These Push
Notifications allow your app to extend beyond the browser, and provides an incredible way of user
engagement.
They are capable of doing simple things, such as alert the user to an important event, display an icon
and a small piece of text that the user can then click to open up your site.

2. Push Notifications a built-in feature of School Management System can help in sending important as-
well routine notifications to the parents.
Applications of Push Notifications:
Push Notifications can be used to alert parents / provide info during the following situations
 Event changes/ Cancellations
 Class Dismisses.
 Attendance & leave notifications
 Volunteer Requests
 School Sports Team Updates
 Disease/ Pandemic Notifications
 Progress Card/ Marks Intimations.
 Fees related Notifications
 Parent-Teacher Meeting Intimations.
Benefits of Push Notifications:
 User- Specific Engagement:
Push notifications can help in providing the best engagement for it’s end users, i.e.,
Parents/Students. User-Specific Push Notifications avoids the need for parents in sticking to app
all the time, and only need to respond for the important notifications.
 User-Friendly:
Push notifications are proven to be user-friendly. These notifications avoid the need for
navigating the complex interface of school management system all the day. Instead they provide
direct access to the required interface, for both students and parents.
The Notifications are easy to access, and the user need not be a tech savvy for accessing them.
They also need minimum effort from the dev team for development and customization.
 Deeper Insights:
In-depth analytics of user behaviour can be derived from the push notifications, as they are the
first source of entry into the app/website, it is easier to identify which type of notifications are
driving much attention to the app.
This can help in identifying the modules of the app, which are more engaging and which are not.
The inputs can help in improvising the app, such that it can be more useful to the end users.
 Brand Promotion:
Push notifications, along with providing updates, can also help in building the brand value of the
institution for registered users. This can also help for non-registered users, as they also can get
the notifications, the marketing team can make use of this user behaviour for building
relationships with the non-registered users, and can attempt
Why Edecofy?

3. Edecofy is built after a thorough, in-depth study of the present schooling system, the
popular School ERP systems, and the gap between expectations and delivery.
Edecofy’s sophisticated notification system, allows the parents to keep minute to minute track of
all the important events and instances that hold key value to them.
Right from the transport-related issues to notifying the parents about the current
development/performance and examination marks, the dynamic school message sending
software of Edecofy ensures that the entire information that holds prime value for the parents
and admin should be communicated instantly.
Looking for more details? Please visit our website at https://www.edecofy.com, you can also
reach us at sales@edecofy.com
References:
https://developers.google.com/web/ilt/pwa/introduction-to-push-notifications