- Great Neck Public Schools
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Office of Instructional Technology - Parent Communication Systems
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The Great Neck Public Schools believes that a strong home-school connection, with parents and teachers as partners in support of student learning, strengthens our educational system. That is why we have made several communications systems available to parents that facilitate home-school communications.
Our major parent communication systems include Blackboard Mass Notification (ParentLink), the Campus Parent Portal and Meet the Teacher (elementary only). Please see the corresponding pages below for more information.
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Blackboard Mass Notification (ParentLink)
Blackboard Mass Notification, formerly known as ParentLink, is a communications tool that leverages the Internet and Voice Over IP technology to enable the Great Neck Public Schools to contact thousands of high school students, staff members, and parents/guardians with important announcements in a variety of ways in a very short period of time. With Blackboard Mass Notification, we can send a message by phone, text, and/or e-mail to recipients with translations for those whose primary language is something other than English. The kinds of messages we send include:
- Routine district messages
- Routine school messages
- Urgent messages (such as school closings or emergency announcements)
- Attendance messages
- Lunch balance messages
This secure Web site enables you to update your personal contact information such as work phone, cell phone, text-message address, and e-mail address, and schedule each method of contact to receive school district messages in the most convenient way for you. It also stores a history of messages you've received in text and audio format.
Parent Involvement and the Home-School Connection
ParentLink improves the home-school connection by keeping parents informed in the event of an emergency or another important school announcement.
Key Features
- Receive more timely and accurate information from the school district.
- Receive phone calls, text messages or e-mails at home, at work, or on your cell.
- Update your own contact information and schedule each type of device for your own personal convenience.
- Capable of sending messages recorded by district staff in their own voice, or converting text into speech.
- Capable of sending messages in languages other than English.
- Eliminates the need for maintaining the older and less than reliable snow-day telephone chains.
- Reduces cost for paper, postage, ink, and labor by diminishing the need to send paper documents home to parents.
- Web-based interfaces makes the system user-friendly and provides a history of previous messages in text and audio formats.
- Robust reporting features to track messages and identify bad numbers to improve message delivery.
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Campus Parent Portal
Great Neck uses the Infinite Campus student information system and makes the Campus Parent Portal available to authorized parents/guardians so that they can securely access student information about their children online. The information we make available includes:
- Messages (district and school announcements)
- Calendar (including assignments)
- Progress Reports (secondary only)
- Report Cards
- NYS Assessment Results (in ELA and Math, Grades 3-8)
- Regents Exam Results (secondary only)
- Attendance (real-time)
- Student Schedules
- Health (Immunization Records)
- Transportation (Bus Numbers, Stops, and Times)
- Fees (PSAT and AP exam payments)
- Athletic Profile (high school)
- Campus Backpack (for archived report cards, HS transcripts, and other student documents)
Click here to access the Parent Portal
Click here for directions on accessing your Parent Portal account
