ParentSquare
ParentSquare
The School District of Oconee County uses ParentSquare for district and school communication, via email, text and app notifications. ParentSquare automatically generates an account for each parent listed as the primary contact spot in PowerSchool, our student information system, using the email address and phone number supplied during registration.
To Sign up for ParentSquare
Non-registered SDOC parents will receive an invitation email or text to join ParentSquare at the start of each school year. That email will include a link to activate your account. If you are a parent and Power School contains your contact details, you can use your email or phone number to set up your account without an invitation.
- Find the email from your school and click to get started, or:
- Go to ParentSquare Login (or install the ParentSquare app) and follow the prompts to sign up.
- Use Google single sign-on, your email, or your phone number to set up your account. Your email/phone number must match contact details in Power School for this to work!
- If your contact details aren’t recognized, contact your student's school to get them added. Please allow for up to 48 hours for your information to appear in ParentSquare before attempting to create an account.
Note: After you are added to ParentSquare by your school, you will receive school communications even if you have not registered your account. However, you will need to register your account in order to participate in two-way communications (messaged back and for with teachers) and to access any confidential student-specific documents or forms.
Parent FAQs
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You don’t have to take any action to receive emails, texts or phone calls. Powerschool, our student information system syncs contact information directly with ParentSquare.
Parents who do create a ParentSquare account can also interact by viewing photos, downloading attachments, leaving comments, messaging teachers, signing permission slips and managing communication preferences.
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You can choose to receive messages via email, text, voice and/or the app. While you can opt-out of any of these methods of communication, the district has the discretion to override opt-outs for urgent messages and alerts.
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Yes. The first time that you log into the app or web portal, all of your students should automatically be listed in the upper left hand corner. If you don’t see them, please contact your student's school.
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Yes, you can update your contact information, but not directly in ParentSquare. To update your contact information:
- Step 1: Log in to Final Forms and update your email and/or phone number.
- Step 2: Call your student's school and let them know you updated your information.
If you are unable to login to final forms or have further questions, you may reach out to your student's school for help. Please allow up to 48 hours after the new information has been entered for it to update in ParentSquare
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ParentSquare allows the district, schools and teachers to send messages in a variety of ways. One method is a post that would only go to the district, or your school’s “feed” in the ParentSquare app or web portal, similar to a feed post you would see on a social media platform. The district, your student's school or teacher also could choose to send that post to parents/guardians in the form of a text or email.
Staff can choose to send a private message to one or more users. For example, a teacher may send a private message regarding a specific student’s homework assignment or upcoming conference.
Third, is a “smart alert” sent at the district and school level — things like newsletters, messages from the superintendent or other district leaders and messages about special programs. They can be sent via text, email or phone call.
The final category is an “urgent smart alert.” These messages will be sent via text, email and phone call and include inclement weather notifications and health and safety issues.
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First, double check that your email is correct. If your information is correct, please check your spam to see if any ParentSquare messages ended up there and mark them as "Not Spam." Also add donotreply@parentsquare to your email contacts so your server recognizes ParentSquare messages. If you still aren’t receiving emails, please contact ParentSquare support at support@parentsquare so that they can assist you.
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Please go to parentsquare.com and on the login page, click "Forgot Password." Put in your email or phone number, and you’ll be sent a link to reset your password.
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You can customize your language settings by going to "My Account" and clicking "Change This" under language settings. From there, you can choose any language that you prefer from the drop-down menu, and you’ll start to receive content in that language. If your language preference is listed in PowerSchool, ParentSquare will automatically update your language.
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You can customize your notification settings by going to your homepage and clicking on your name in the top right corner and selecting "My Account" from the drop-down menu. On your account page, you find your notification settings in the top right corner and click "Change This" to customize your notifications. If you’re receiving too many notifications, try changing to "digest" setting, meaning you’ll only receive one condensed message in the evening. Here is a help article on changing your notification settings.
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Yes, you can contact your child's teacher privately by using the direct messaging tool. On the home page, click on "Messaging" in the left sidebar. From there, you can send a direct message to your child's teacher that only you and the teacher can see. You also can send messages to other staff members at the school, such as your child's coaches and club leaders. You can send these messages in your preferred language; the messages will arrive to staff in English. Here is a link to our help page on direct messaging.