Parents Evening.... Zoom again!

[gmonks]

We use Parents-Booking by NetMedia.

 

We ran 2 Parents Evenings via Videocall using their service last Autumn, and will use it again after Easter.

 

We used to use them as a way of signing Parents up to Parents Evenings but now they have the video function too, it's great. As others have said with SchoolCloud, a major benefit is the automatic end of the session after the allotted time. Really keeps both the Parents and Staff focused.

 

The only problems we ran into was the occasional Parents struggling to access it, but you'll get this with any system I guess. We never experienced any downtime with the software.

 

 

[JoeRogue]

We've used our MIS (Schoolbase) to allow parents to book their appointments, we then had staff enter their Google Meet links into a spreadsheet which is shared with parents the day before.

 

With the new features in Meet allowing you to essentially lockdown your meeting its actually worked out pretty well...just not the part when parents ignore the deadline for booking appointments!

[Ormuz]

Used Schoolcloud a few times for parents evening. Nice and fast, easy to use! love not having to see parents and then have meeting dragging.

[KK20]

oh boy