Schools using SchoolBridge also have the option of enabling the mobile app.
The app greatly enhances SchoolBridge and SchoolPoint for your users making all of the features available by a few taps of the screen.
Alerts and Push Notifications
The app also enables push notifications for the alerts, permission slips and forms that you send so you can ensure communication to your community will have maximum reach.
Designed to streamline communication and school admin, the SchoolBridge App gives caregivers quick, secure access to everything they need in one central hub. With a simple, friction-free login, you can easily submit dynamic absence notifications, receive real-time alerts and urgent push notifications, and complete digital permission slips on the go. Stay up to date with full access to school newsletters, timetables, academic reports, and account statements—keeping you informed and empowered every step of the school year.
The SchoolBridge App puts your entire school day right at your fingertips. Log in instantly to check your daily timetable, track room changes, and view upcoming school events so you never miss a deadline or practice. Stay informed with direct access to daily notices, sports news, and targeted announcements for your year level. Plus, quick-launch links give you instant access to essential school portals, learning resources, library catalogs, and student services whenever you need them.
Designed to reduce paperwork and save time, the app gives staff quick access to essential workplace tools from anywhere. Stay informed with targeted internal communications and real-time staff alerts, and handle everyday tasks—like requesting leave or submitting reimbursement claims—directly from your phone. Quickly launch your most-used staff portals, access key policy information, and manage your daily schedules without being tied to your desk.
SchoolBridge seamlessly integrates with your existing Student Management System (SMS) to deliver an unmatched level of convenience and intelligent automation across your school. Because data synchronization happens continuously and automatically behind the scenes, there is zero need for manual user imports or tedious roster updates. The app instantly recognizes who is logging in—whether a caregiver, student, or staff member—and automatically tailors their alerts, forms, timetables, and available services specifically to them. For administrative teams and teaching staff, this eliminates repetitive data entry, dramatically reduces office overhead, and unlocks exclusive workflow tools simply unavailable on standard school communication platforms.
Reaching every family in your school community has never been easier or more cost-effective. SchoolBridge gives you the flexibility to send urgent alerts and routine updates via free push notifications, SMS text messages, email, or a combination of all three. Thanks to the system’s intelligent user tracking, the app automatically identifies which community members have the app installed and prioritizes zero-cost push notifications first. For those without the app, fallback messages are seamlessly routed to text or email. You maintain full visibility over your delivery channels with real-time delivery stats and instant cost estimates before sending any text broadcast—ensuring complete budget control while guaranteeing maximum reach.
Stay in Contact In Any Situation
The alert system in SchoolBridge works great from within the SchoolBridge app, so you can send alert messages quickly from your mobile device when you need to.
Because SchoolBridge creates a backup of your caregiver, student and staff contact information in the cloud, you will still be able to stay in contact with your community, even if you do not have access to your school or your SMS is unreachable.
Make absence reporting easy for caregivers and staff alike.
Because parents have to sign in to the app with their school-issued password, you can be be assured that the reports are authentic (Parents can also secure the app with a 4-digit PIN code)
Your absence administrator has total overview of the submitted absences can import the reports into your student management system without having to enter them manually.
Using the SchoolBridge app makes it easy for caregivers to get notified about and submit forms.
Many schools would love to go paperless with permission slips and other forms, but worry about getting caregivers to engage over email. The SchoolBridge app solves this issue by sending push alerts directly to the mobile devices of the caregivers involved.
SchoolBridge forms look great, are completely customisable and include great features like file uploading and digital signatures
SchoolBridge synchronises with your student management system bringing a level of convenience and ‘Smarts’ unmatched by other school apps.
SMS data sync happens automatically. No manual importing is required to allow your users to sign in, receive alerts, or find information and services specific to them.
For your staff, this makes administrative tasks much easier and gives them tools that are not available with any other platform.
You can send alert messages as free push notifications, or maximise your reach by sending text messages or emails, or any combination of the three.
Thanks to SchoolBridges ‘smarts’, you have complete overview of which users have the app, and which require an sms-text message or email. To save you money, the system will preferentially send no-cost push notifications to users with the app and will give you a complete cost overview when sending text messages.
The alert system in SchoolBridge works great from within the SchoolBridge app, so you can send alert messages quickly from your mobile device when you need to.
Because SchoolBridge creates a backup of your caregiver, student and staff contact information in the cloud, you will still be able to stay in contact with your community, even if you do not have access to your school or your SMS is unreachable.
Because parents have to sign in to the app with their school-issued password, you can be be assured that the reports are authentic (Parents can also secure the app with a 4-digit PIN code)
Your absence administrator has total overview of the submitted absences can import the reports into your student management system without having to enter them manually.
Many schools would love to go paperless with permission slips and other forms, but worry about getting caregivers to engage over email. The SchoolBridge app solves this issue by sending push alerts directly to the mobile devices of the caregivers involved.
SchoolBridge forms look great, are completely customisable and include great features like file uploading and digital signatures
The app gives your users access to all of the same features available to them in the web version of SchoolBridge. Custom dashboards, permission slips and forms, links to SchoolPoint and the KAMAR portal, Resources, and other services all work exactly the same.
Sync your school’s calendar from your SMS (KAMAR) or Google Calendar. The Google import option allows you to host a staff only calendar for staff and a public calendar for students and caregivers.
App users have access to event details and can set reminders for themselves in their own calendars for specific events.
Everything that happens in SchoolBridge is protected by a user password and all data is encrypted.
Users can keep their accounts secure by setting a PIN code for the app that must be entered to use the app.
Inbox Design has built SchoolBridge and the SchoolBridge app from the ground up with security in mind and follows New Zealand Ministry of Education guidelines on privacy best practices.
The App is included with all SchoolBridge Subscriptions from August 2023.