School Communication
ChatGPT and Education: Implications & Tips
What is the potential for ChatGPT and education? Read our insights & tips for how to use it on your school website.
Edlio Insights
Hear problems posed in different voices from frustrated families, to struggling school support staff, with creative solutions using innovative tech. Discover helpful how-tos as well as entertaining insights on problems school leaders face every day.
Family Engagement
How to Get Parents Involved in School
If you want to know how to get parents involved in school, read through our best ideas to get started!
School Communication
10 Tips for Communication in Schools After a Break
How do you maintain strong communication in schools after a long break? Here are our top 10 tips.
School Communication
A Roundup of Parent Engagement Ideas & Topics
Looking back at our posts of the past year, parent engagement ideas abound. Here are some of our best tips!
School Websites
2022 in Review: Hot Topics & K12 Mobile App Requirements
As 2022 draws to a close, we’re wrapping up the big topics of the year in K12 education including K12 mobile apps & more.
School Websites
How to Market Your School Fundraising Ideas
Want to help make your next fundraising event a success? Then don’t forget to market your school fundraising ideas!
School Payments
20 Private School Fundraising Ideas
Looking for some Christian school fundraising ideas? Here are 20 private school fundraising ideas for you to try today!
School Communication
How to Generate Community Involvement in Schools for Fundraising
How do you generate community involvement in schools? Recruit business partners!
School Payments
How to Create a School Store Fundraiser
Your next fundraiser could be easier than you think. Host a school store fundraiser this month!
School Communication
A day in the life of a parent communication app
School communication apps connect students, teachers, families, & community members with school updates and information. Here’s a day in the life of...
School Communication
Five things to ask for in your parent teacher communication app
Communication apps for schools come in all shapes and sizes, but make sure your app has these five non-negotiables.
Family Engagement
Why do we have to apply customer service in schools?
Parent engagement in schools means delivering great customer service in schools. Here are some tips on how to implement a proven method at your...
School Communication
How to communicate change in the parent school relationship
Learn how to not jeopardize the parent school relationship when communicating change to your families.
School Communication
Your app for school communication and other product updates for 2022
Creating technology so communication between school and parents is easier, clearer, and more intuitive is a main priority for Edlio. Here's what's...
Family Engagement
How to make parent teacher involvement a success at Back-To-School Night
Engaging parents in school and student learning is always a challenge. Here’s how to start the school year off right and get parent teacher...
School Websites
Five things every tech director wishes they had before school starts
Starting a school year right can lay the foundation for a successful year. Discover what every tech director wishes they had when starting a school...
School Websites
How To Set New School Year Tech Goals
New Year's resolutions aren’t just for January: in schools they are also for the end of Summer. Here’s how to create your Tech SMART goals for...
School Communication
9 private school marketing strategies to keep enrollment momentum
This might be the new education era of the Private school, if you maintain engagement—and enrollment. Read to learn nine enrollment and marketing...
School Communication
How technology can support mental health in schools
Learn recommendations from a school psychologist on how schools can better support their students in mental health.
Family Engagement
16 ideas for an engaging school newsletter
Looking for new ways to engage families for the upcoming school year? It may be time to switch up the newsletter of school, athletics or alumni and...
Family Engagement
8 parent engagement strategies for summer school post-COVID
Communication with parents needs to be clear and convenient for them to want to engage. These tips will help encourage parent involvement for the...
School Websites
Unified solution vs. individual products for your school's digital platform
A unified solution for your school website, online payments, and communication will save your school money in redundant softwares your school might...
School Websites
Eight ways to clean up your school website for summer
Prepping for the next school year? Learn tips for a successful digital clean-up necessary for a fresh start with your CMS for school website...
School Websites
Four ways to make your school website more accessible to senior caregivers
Due to Section 504, schools are working to have ADA compliance in websites compliant as soon as possible. Learn four things to consider to include...
School Websites
School Marketing: Your Questions Answered
Why is school marketing important? School marketing is a vital tool for new enrollment and engagement. It needs to be consistent, planned and...
School Communication
How to communicate end of year events for your high school
High school communication strategies are crucial for end of year events. Here are several different ideas of how to communicate these end of year...
School Websites
Three requirements besides alt text to consider for an ADA accessible school website
Adhering to Section 504 in schools can be confusing with all the rules to follow for schools to have ADA friendly websites. Consider these three...
School Websites
What happens when your school website isn’t accessible?
There are ADA laws for school websites, but what happens when your school doesn’t meet website accessibility requirements? Here’s what follows after...
School Websites
Why is ADA website compliance software important to my school?
Having ADA website compliance software will help comply with Section 504 in schools requirements—as well as contribute to building that equality for...
School Websites
School Website Security: what features are important for your school website company to have
School website cyber security is becoming increasingly important. Learn what features school website companies are putting in place to protect your...
School Payments
How to Interview a School Payments Company
Schools face several options when it comes to choosing the best online school payments software. Here are six questions to ask when looking for the...
School Payments
The best way to raise money for your school in 2022
Online school fundraisers have become a crucial line item in the budget, and a necessity for survival today. Here’s a new way to raise money using...
School Payments
How does online ticketing software save your school time and money?
An important feature of your K12 payment center is online ticketing software. Learn why selling school event tickets online will save your school...
School Websites
Marketing company or CMS? - Which one is right for your school?
Why are schools choosing a website company over a marketing company when creating a new website and updating school branding? Learn the pros and cons...
School Communication
How To Get the Most Out of Your Attendance Notifications
How do we keep our school communication personal? How can schools keep up with necessary notifications while also saving time? The answer is simple,...
School Communication
Why Do I Need an App If My School’s Website Is Mobile Responsive?
School communication apps for families have become important tools in addition to websites. The question remains if we have all of this parent...
School Communication
7 Secrets to Unified District Communication
Effective communication with parents in schools is sometimes a tricky job. Explore 7 tips to unify your communication with parents, other schools in...
School Communication
Parent Engagement Without Activism
Parent involvement vs. parent engagement in schools is a constant struggle. What can schools do to engage their families? What motivates families to...
School Websites
You asked, we listened - Here’s what’s coming in the first half of 2022!
Thank you to our Edlio school website clients and prospects for your feedback. Here are the top features coming to our platform in the first part of...
School Communication
One Thing Families Want From Schools Today - Communication
Today, the importance of parent engagement in schools has increased tremendously. Here are five communication problems and solutions that will result...
School Websites
No credit for the CMS
Even the best school website software is hard to get recognition. This is about the intangible benefits of switching to a new, more powerful, content...
School Communication
Change Management for School Leaders - How To Prepare Your Staff For Change
Communicating change to your school staff, families and community is always hard, especially if you’re changing to a new school CMS website. Learn...
School Websites
The Field Trip That Never Happened
Easy to create, update, and post online forms are key to school communication today. If the forms have a payment option, that’s just a bonus!
School Websites
How to Interview a New Website Company
Finding the best CMS school website company can be tricky. Here are five questions only tech directors remember to ask.
School Websites
5 Resolutions Not To Make This Year
Sometimes the redundancy of updating the school website all falls on one person. Follow these tips to make it easier—and it may even help parent...