Sending push notifications

Step by step

1Notifications

Choose Notifications from the menu. Everyone who has installed your school’s app, and allowed notifications, can receive them.

2Title and message

Keep it short — most notifications are read on a lock screen. A title of around forty characters shows in full on most phones.

3Who gets it

Choose who gets it: everyone, teachers and staff, parents, students, or one class. Nobody else is disturbed.

4Now or later

Leave Send at empty to send it at once. Or pick a time — here, tomorrow at eight in the morning — and it goes then, by itself.

5Schedule it

The button now says Schedule it. Press it, and the notification waits in the list until its time.

6Sent and queued

Sent and queued keeps every notification: what went, to whom, and when — and what is still waiting.

7Call it back

Until it goes, a scheduled notification can be called back. A notification sent now cannot — it is already on their phones.