The DS's school has just had an upgrade to Parentmail foisted upon it. The previous version worked fine. You received an email, opened the email, read the cover note and opened and read any attachments. If you wanted this could all be achieved on your phone quickly and easily.
Now we receive an email to say there is a message in Parentmail. You then have to go to the Parentmail website and enter your username and password. Next step is to open the new message, read the cover note and the download and read any attachments.
This additional step of having to go online is having a detrimental effect on school communications with a lot of parents not being bothered with the fuss of going to the website to log on and read the message.
Apparently the Parentmail argument that this new way of working is more secure, but how much security is necessary for school notices about sports day, term dates etc? In any case email is secure in itself.
Anyway rant over. I'd be interested I hearing others' view.
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To be p*ssed off with Parentmail?
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Liltzero · 06/07/2014 20:16
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