Connect1

About Connect1

Welcome to the first-of-its-kind school engagement app! What is "school engagement"? It's how your school and parents connect as one community. This app automates your volunteering process, your school directory, and other annual registration needs in one central and secure place.

No more manual forms, public sign-up sites, multiple emails trying to direct people to the sign-up sites, tracking volunteer hours in spreadsheets, school leaders pushing hours quotas, frustrated PTOs / PTAs who need more volunteers, printed directories that finally come in halfway through the school year, and frustrated parents who hate the process.

This app includes an innovative registration process to capture community information, then automates the school directory and volunteer creation, sign-up, and tracking process in one secure place for your closed school community. At the same time, the app uses proven gamification theory to make the process fun and engaging. This will greatly simplify your life, adding a level of convenience to your parent community that will be appreciated. Also, the app conforms to your school brand (logo, color scheme) and can be used as a great marketing tool to prospective families. Build a more engaged school community with Connect1.

Key Features
- Secure – only your private school community can see it
- Easy – robust, wizard driven event creation that can handle any event type
- School-specific – segments school-level vs. classroom-level vs. year-long positions
- Community-specific - captures talents and interests of your school community to enable great matching of school needs to community skills
- Visible – one “volunteer board” for everyone to see and filter
- Points / Hours Tracking – event creators dictate points and hours for participation with NO need for volunteers to submit hours
- Engaging – innovative point system, levels of achievement, avatars for role identity and encouraging statements to volunteer
- Insights – dashboards tracking points / hours, event commitments, and trending and community reports at the school level
- Communication – built in app notifications, e-mailing, social media sharing, and event promotions
- Mobile – one place, one app, one click away from knowing everything, one click away from participating

If you are a school principal or PTO member, you can lead the charge to this new way forward. The app is simple to set-up, uses your color scheme and logo to help you market your technical prowess, and enables parents to stay connected to the school in a more effective and meaningful way. More engaged parents equals more successful students.