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Granite School District adopts Focus communications module to consolidate messaging
Summary
The Granite School District trustees heard a presentation on the district's new communications module from Focus, which will combine attendance calls, grades, two-way messaging and translation into one platform for parents and staff. Board members asked about rollout, pilot testing, Canvas integration and reporting features.
The Granite School Board on Wednesday heard a presentation on a new districtwide communications module from Focus that the district says will consolidate attendance alerts, grades, email, text and two-way messaging into a single platform for parents, students and staff.
District staff described the module as an added communications layer that "piggybacks" on the district's existing Focus student-information system and said the switch aims to reduce the number of separate apps parents and teachers must use. "The biggest reason we switched was 2 way messaging," said Rick, a staff member presenting the product. "This product allows us to do that where our prior solution did not." He added the new platform includes message templates, scheduled messages, polls and sign-ups, automatic translation into more than 100 languages and mass-notification features for emergencies.
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