Rooms is a two-way communication tool that teachers, club sponsors, and athletic coaches will be using to connect our classrooms, clubs and teams to families. Rooms is similar to other platforms that you may be familiar with for two-way communications (such as Remind, Class Dojo, BAND, Bloomz, etc.). Instead of all of those apps parents/guardians are asked to download each year, all teachers, coaches, club sponsors in our District will be using Rooms, and this two-way communications tool is built right into our District’s new mobile app!
PARENT/GUARDIAN ACTION NEEDED: COMPLETE SETUP FOR YOUR ACCOUNT IN ROOMS
The initial setup to “complete your account” for Rooms is all that’s needed for parents/guardians to connect to Rooms. A robocall, text, email was sent on the morning of Thursday, July 18 to students’ contacts inviting them to Rooms. Please check your text messages or search for an email sent from accounts@edurooms.com to create your Rooms account to connect your student(s). You’ll create a password to register. If you did not receive the request to complete your account through Rooms, please let me know so that I can work with our Principal to get you added.
Once you set up your account in Rooms, connection to your student’s assigned teachers will be part of a nightly sync with our student information system (PowerSchool). Then, your account and two-way communication will transition as your student moves to new teachers each semester, grade level, and even as they move to a new school in Aiken County or new level (elementary to middle; middle to high). This enhanced school-to-home communications tool that will keep communication open and automatic from now through your students’ 12th grade year.
PARENT/GUARDIAN ACTION NEEDED: DOWNLOAD ACPSD’S NEW MOBILE APP
If you’ve not already done so, please also download Aiken County Public Schools’ new mobile app available on the App and Google Play Store (Aiken County Public Schools SC). Through this one app, you’ll be able to toggle between District and school news and information, and Rooms to communicate directly with your students’ teachers.
Thank you for taking a few minutes to complete setup for your Account in Rooms and download Aiken County Public Schools’ new mobile app! I look forward to keeping the lines of communication open so that we can work together to support your student in achieving his/her personal best!