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What is the Weekly Summary, and how can I personalize it?
What is the Weekly Summary, and how can I personalize it?

Details on how the Weekly Summary (a.k.a. newsletter) works, and how to it set it up to send automatically.

Migui Franco avatar
Written by Migui Franco
Updated over a week ago

Here is a quick video showing you how the weekly summary works.


To give teachers a simple, effective, and creative way to organize their classrooms, SchoolStatus Connect offers one of the biggest time-saving opportunities. Teachers can take advantage of the SchoolStatus Connect Weekly Summary.

The Weekly Summary is an automated parent weekly newsletter with all the upcoming activities every week. It sends a personalized email to each parent to show their week at a glance, including what they have signed up for and what is still available. It is also sent as SMS with a link to view the whole content in the app. 

Instead of spending hours on paper notes, you can automate your essential communication with the Weekly Summary. It is designed to replace labor-intensive paper newsletters. You only need to set this up once and the parents will receive a summary of the upcoming classroom activities every week. There is no need to manually create it, SchoolStatus Connect does this for you. 

By enabling the Weekly Summary, you will not have to worry about informing your parents about the coming week.  At the same time, you are also creating a consistent communication system for your classroom.

The Weekly Summary feature of SchoolStatus Connect helps teachers and parents in many ways. In a recent survey conducted by SchoolStatus Connect , over 50% of participants mentioned the difficulty of reaching all parents. It is a struggle engaging with parents when you cannot even reach them. Parental engagement is one key factor to ensure a child’s success in school. With the weekly newsletter, all parents can be included in school life. We have heard from countless teachers who reached their most important parent engagement goals by sending our Weekly Summary. 

The Weekly Summary can be accessed by going to your classroom, clicking the 3 ellipses beside the class banner, and select Weekly Summary

To truly benefit from the Weekly Summary you have to persistently add upcoming Events to SchoolStatus Connect . The system can only inform the parents about the activities that are in the system. The Weekly Summary then pulls everything you have scheduled for the week ahead and delivers a clear and concise overview to the parents’ inboxes in the form of a newsletter.

Pro Tip: Parents don’t have to join SchoolStatus Connect to receive the Weekly Update actively. They are included in the communication from the moment their email or phone number is added to the Directory. Additionally, parents can modify their mail settings for all automated communications, so that they’re never overwhelmed with too many updates.

Even though the Weekly Summary is automated, you have plenty of options to customize it and make it your own. The default day it is sent is on Friday but you can choose what day and time your weekly summary goes out. You can also add a custom message to parents or skip that, knowing that they will still receive an update – without you lifting a finger! 

Additionally, you can select the language the Weekly Summary is viewed by the parent. 

CAN I CHANGE THE DATE WHEN THE WEEKLY SUMMARY IS SENT?

Log in to your SchoolStatus Connect account. Click the drop down field on the upper left side and choose the correct class. Go to the Weekly Summary found within the classroom settings.

On the bottom right side of the page is where you can change the day and time when you want the Weekly Summary sent. Hit 'Save Summary' after.

HOW CAN I ADD A CUSTOM MESSAGE?

Log in to your SchoolStatus Connect account. Click the drop down field on the upper left side and choose the correct class. Go to the Weekly Summary found within the classroom settings.

On the box provided, add the text you want to be added to the newsletter. You may change this every week or not. You have the cool ability to change fonts, colors, styles, etc. There are so many options to make this a great greeting for your families. You can always choose to leave this space blank if you do not want to add a custom message.

CAN I TURN OFF THE WEEKLY SUMMARY?

Sure, you can. Just log in to your SchoolStatus Connect account. Click the drop down field on the upper left side and choose the correct class. Go to the Weekly Summary found within the classroom settings. Uncheck the box that says “Enable Weekly Summary” located at the bottom part of the summary page.

CAN I ADD PHOTOS TO THE WEEKLY SUMMARY?

You can add photos and videos to a Story, Announcement, and Events but, at this time, the Weekly Summary does not yet pull up these files. Rest assured, we have heard your feedback and will look into adding this feature in the future. You can, however, attach a link to an image or video in your Google Drive, YouTube, etc.

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