Power School - A New Way To Transform Communication With Schools As Well Parents

By Author: Aaditya Aggrawal
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Businesses across India have already understood the power of cloud based telephony technology. So, now it’s time for the educational institutions to embrace this service. Because being an integral part of our society and economy, educational institutesmust not lag behind technologically.
Schools, colleges, universities, and other educational institutes are finally opening their eyes to the new possibilities of cloud telephony. More and more educational institutions are adopting such technologies to transform the way they engage and communicate with pupils and parents.

So what is Cloud Communication in Education?

Ideally, an institute is required to invest in expensive phone systems and human resources to have the necessary infrastructure to manage inbound enquiries.For centers of knowledge, such resources are better off being spent in improving education.Now, the educational institutions are benefiting from automated call enquiry system through cloud communication. And the best part, they are doing this at “ZERO” infrastructure cost.

With Big V Telecom’s product, Power School, educational institutions ...
... can handle all their communication on just one number. It includes an automated IVR, which can handle multiple enquiries at a single time. Calls can be easilydiverted to staff member with the help of extension.
Products like Power School are extremely flexible and can be customized as per the needs of the educational institutions. It can incorporate SMS, Voicemails, registering voice complaints and allowing parents to access academic reports.

How Can Cloud Telephony Systems Improve School Communication?

Today’s parents are much more aware and advanced in their approach. They always want to get involved with their child’s educational progress as much as they can. They want to have all the information related to their child’s performance. Equipping parents with an automated platform to gain insight about their child’s academic performance will certainly pave way in growing their trust in the school system.

Products like Power School allow parents to retrieve information about academic calendar, exam schedules and results as well as attendance reports.

For parents, it is not just about being informed but also being involved. Appropriate communication of information allows them to appreciate their child’s talents and suggest improvements where it is needed.

Moreover, these solutions are not exclusively for parents. They often have dedicated channels of information for students also. Students can see their own academic information; receive alerts on academic schedules as wells as on travel rosters. Power School enables educational institutes to send customized as well as general alerts to the students. Institutes can send voice mails from the management, principal or dean to students. This makes them more dear to the parents and students and at the same time extending their engagement policy.

Providing a Platform of Voice for the Voiceless

Most of the times victims of Ragging within school premises are too scared to report about it. They fear more bullying and ragging from peers. So, curb this issue there’s a need of a discrete platform where students can lodge their complaints.

The cloud communication solution provides a feasible platform for victims to raise their voice without fearing about any consequences. In fact, Power School can be customized in such a way that it will protect the identity of the whistle-blowers. A simple phone call on the registered hotline number can be enough to register a complain regarding any bullying or such incident. This will help in educational intuitions’ efforts to get rid of this menace.

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