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Kanawha County Schools launches mobile app to centralize events and notifications
Summary
Kanawha County Schools introduced a mobile app that lets parents, students and staff receive push notifications, subscribe to specific schools, view event listings and see district updates in a single feed.
Kanawha County Schools announced a new mobile app designed to centralize district communications for parents, students and staff. A staff member for Kanawha County Schools described the app as "everything Kanawha County Schools in your pocket."
The app provides a menu for navigating district and school content, a settings panel to enable push notifications and a subscriptions option so users can follow specific schools, the staff member said. An events section lists school events; users can add events to personal calendars or share them with others. A district feed will carry administrative updates such as student recognitions and deadline reminders. The staff member encouraged users to "Search Kanawha County Schools in the App Store or Play Store to explore the app for yourself."
The announcement was informational; no formal board action or policy change was discussed or recorded in the provided transcript. The presentation focused on how to use the app: opening the home screen, tapping the three horizontal lines to view the menu, enabling notifications via settings and using the subscriptions and events features to tailor what content a user receives.
The app is presented as a communications tool for the Kanawha County Schools community; the transcript did not specify an official launch date, user adoption targets, cost to the district or any funding source for the app.
