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ParentSquare For Staff

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ParentSquare is the Chehalis School District’s primary form of communication with families. Please use this webpage to help you get oriented to ParentSquare. If you have any questions or want personalized training, please contact Public Information Officer Carrina Stanton at (360) 807-7200 ext. 8229 or Email communications@chehalisschools.org.

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ParentSquare FAQ for Staff

  • You get to choose your audience for posts and most staff members don’t even have the ability to make a post to the entire school district.

    After you choose “New Post”, the first line in your new post is “To”. If you click on that box, it will give you a list of all of the groups you can make a post to. Posts can be building-wide (with role permission) or to a specific group of your choosing such as a classroom, sports team or extracurricular activity group. After you choose your “To”, the next line gives you a drop down menu next to the words “Who Should See This?”

    CLICK HERE for more information on how to make a post.

    If you have an announcement that you want made to your entire building and your role does not give you permission, please give your message to your building administrator to post. If you have an announcement you would like made district wide, please send it to Public Information Officer Carrina Stanton at communications@chehalisschools.org.

  • You must choose for someone to be able to comment on your post. Even if commenting is turned on, all comments are automatically private so only the post administrator and the comment author can see the comment and any replies.

    To allow commenting on a post, choose the settings wheel in the top right hand corner of your post and under “Comments” choose “Enable Comments.” If commenting is enabled for a post, the choice under “Comments” will be “Disable Comments.”

  • On your Home ParentSquare page, you will see a feed of posts for your school, class or group. In the box of your post, you will see two gray bars at the bottom: # Notified; and #Appreciated. If you click on the red number next to Notified, it will take you to a page with message delivery statistics. At the bottom of the page, there will be a searchable list of everyone who received your post, how they received your post and whether it was delivered and whether it was opened.

  • If you are a staff member and a parent, multiple accounts will be created for you (if you have a staff email account on your staff record and a personal email address on your parent record).

    ACTION: You have two choices.

    Maintain separate accounts:

    1. A staff member can choose to have two ParentSquare accounts, one with their staff email address used for the teacher/staff account, and a personal email address used for the parent account.
    2. There is no way to be simultaneously logged into two accounts at a time.
      ParentSquare mobile apps only work with one account at a time.
      The ParentSquare web portal only works with one account at a time.
    3. Individuals can optimize their notification settings across the two accounts to reduce the risk of missing any key communications, even if they are not logged in. For example, use the mobile app push notifications for work, and set up email notifications or text for the parent account.

    CLICK HERE FOR AN article on how to Combine/Merge Accounts

  • ParentSquare uses the data received from the School for the sole purpose of delivering products and services to the School. They do not rent, trade, or sell or otherwise distribute your information to any third parties and will only disclose information when allowed by FERPA and required a) by applicable laws or government orders or b) to maintain and operate our service or c) when authorized by the School.