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ParentSquare
Getting Started
Navarro ISD uses the ParentSquare communication app to best serve our families, students and staff. ParentSquare offers a one-stop-shop tool that allows parents to receive district updates and emergency alerts, newsletters, communicate with teachers/sponsors, and access other resources in one place. ParentSquare also allows parents/guardians to:
- Stay connected and informed
- Receive notifications through email, text, and app
- Sign permission slips digitally
- Make payments online
- Sign up to volunteer and more!
Upon student registration, you will receive a notification email to set up your ParentSquare account online. Be sure to download the app! ParentSquare will automatically opt-in all parents/guardians with the contact information provided during registration. Please make sure your contact information is accurate in the Ascender Parent Portal to receive communications.
Click here for online resources and tutorials, offered in English and Spanish, to help navigate the app and utilize the features it has to offer.
Notification and Account Settings
Users can fine-tune their notification settings for posts for each school and district. For General Announcements, you can select Digest, Instant, or choose to turn off notifications altogether (excluding Urgent Alerts and notices.) You can choose to receive email, text, and/or app notifications.
ParentSquare allows users to customize their notifications by notification type and select their preferred delivery method for each school and district.
You can set the frequency of notifications for posts. The Instant setting will send all post notifications in real time. The Digest setting sends direct messages, alerts, and time-sensitive posts instantly, but sends all non-time-sensitive posts at the end of the day, reducing the number of notifications you receive daily. Note: we recommend the Digest setting.
Notification types include:
- Urgent Smart Alerts & Notices - urgent alerts, attendance notices, and auto notices marked as critical notices (cannot be disabled).
- General Announcements & Messages - posts, direct messages and reminders.
- School Alerts - smart alerts and other student notices.
Under General Announcements, you can select how often you want to receive notifications for posts. Select Off, Instant or Digest notifications.
- Off: no notifications about posts will be sent to you. Urgent Alerts and Notices will still be sent. School Alerts will still be sent if turned on.
- Instant: you'll receive an email and/or text and/or an app notification every time a notice or message is sent.
- Digest: you'll receive an email and/or text and/or an app notification once a day in the evening with all posts from that day.
The default setting is typically Digest, so that you receive all notices and post messages in one convenient notification once a day. All urgent notifications still come through instantly, and a school can override settings as needed for an urgent message. If you choose Instant notifications, and have multiple children in multiple schools, that can add up to a lot of messages.
Click Here to Learn How to Manage Notification and Account Settings