Thursday, January 05, 2006  
Open-Ended Results Detail
 
If you could improve one thing about electronic communications to Wilder parents, what would it be?
1. It's tough to see a monthly view except for the calendar. I liked having everything in one place in the weekly announcements and I still find myself grabbing an extra copy when at the school. I find the daily and weekly emails to be a lot of repeats and not a lot of summarization and good viewing of the month ahead for planning.
2. When I click on an item on the webpage and then want to go "back", the 'back' button doesn't take me to the the parent organizer front page, instead it takes me to the calendar and then I have to close the window and open my e-mail again. Other than that the information I get over e-mail is most helpful!
3. I want an exact copy of the Thursday packet in Parent Organizer, page by page.
4. Send a daily email only if there are updates. Do not send an email to say that there are no updates.
5. Provide more links to forms that can be either printed out or filled out online, such as field trip forms, community service activity log forms, etc.
6. Eliminate information from the daily emails that does not apply to me.
7. Seeing a weekly overview seems more effective than just daily updates. And how about reminders of half days, there should have been reminders of that.
8. I find the ICS parent organizer info is a little more organized I guess it is what I am used to. They have a little more information with there events
9. Make the website EASIER to navigate and use-- and TRAIN US...I have only once or twice found information I have been looking for, and that was by accident, because I have never been able to duplicate what I did....train us, TRAIN US, TRAIN US!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. -Ability to send same email to both work and home email addresses (vs me forwarding it home .. probably I can set up this way, but hasnt bothered me enough to move me to action) - some way to search through previous messages or archives, esp for the calendars (again, probably available. . )
11. visibility into class project requirements; supplies teachers need etc., forms for flield trips etc., etc
12. add a link to the monthly school event calendar on every email so that I can get there in ONE click. :)
13. Have announcements stay on the daily emails longer.
14. Go back to the paper communication. I use email and typically prefer online communication, but this one area I don't care for it.
15. Have teachers use it to tell parents what they are studying and doing in their classrooms each week. We used to get paper newsletters from each classroom teacher, but now we get nothing.
16. When there are "no announcements," I'd prefer not to get an email. I get the daily announcements, but sometimes I open the mail to find "no announcements." Although now that I've read through this survey, I see that I can receive only weekly announcements and may try that for a while to see how that works.
17. Nothing! I think it's great the way it is.