FEATURES OF THE PARENT-TEACHER MEETINGS MANAGER
Take the hassle out of setting up and administering your PARENT-TEACHER MEETINGS (PTM) — no paper forms to get lost.
The PTM MANAGER provides parents with a convenient online booking system for parent–teacher meetings.
Benefits for your school…
- Organise your parent-teacher meetings at the best time for your school.
- Eliminates double-bookings
- Simple to use — set up a PTM event in half and hour, or clone a previous event to set up the next event.
- No software to install on your computer or servers.
- Additional features added on request within 1-week (no charge).
- Upload a file of teacher names and email address from an Excel csv file, or enter/edit these details manually for individual teachers.
- Each teacher can have different the dates and times when they are available to meet with parents.
- Schedule block-out times for meal breaks, etc, for groups of teachers.
- Set the period for appointments in 5-minute intervals and include a buffer period between each appointment.
- Enter appointments for specific parents prior to the booking facility being made available to all parents and advise these parents of the appointments.
- Use the online email system to invite parents to make a booking.
- You receive progress emails at regular intervals.
- Specify the opening and closing date and time for parent access to make bookings.
- No limit on the number of meetings, teachers, or the number of appointments.
- Live online help available.
- Free telephone support.
Benefits for parents…
- Instant online bookings — no checking back between parent, student and teacher required.
- Time slots are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
- Parents with no Internet access can phone the school to have their appointment scheduled.
- Parents receive confirmation by email following each booking.
- Parents receive your appointment schedule by email prior to the PTM Event.
- Each parent automatically receives a reminder notice by email prior to the date of their meetings.
- Parents can enter a note for the teacher with each booking.
- Each parent can save the details for each child, so they are available to pre-populate the booking next time.
- Parents can cancel or change their bookings online.
Benefits for teachers…
- Eliminate the need for teachers to be involved in scheduling parent appointments.
- Teachers can indicate which dates and times when they are available to meet with parents.
- Print a personalised appointment schedule for each teacher.
- Progress emails are automatically sent to each teacher.