The new mass notification system used throughout Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS), allows staff members to send messages and notifications quickly and efficiently. Those messages include emergency situations, school events and information on other student topics.
 

Here are some timely topics for Connect-ED users to review about the district's  mass notification system.
 

District-wide Connect-ED messages

The SPPS Connect-ED guidelines are available here and a sample message is available here. You are encouraged to customize and personalize it. For translations, please use staff at your sites to translate and record messages. If you need technical support with Connect-ED, contact Blackboard Connect's customer service at support@blackboardconnect.com or call Blackboard Connect's help desk at 866-435-7684.

To have a Connect-ED quick start guide e-mailed to you, contact Steve Bilderback at steve.bilderback@spps.org. In addition, a FAQ guide to address parent questions is available here.

Please keep your phone numbers as current as possible

The Connect-ED system is only as good as the phone numbers we maintain. Please continue to review periodically the "bad" phone numbers and update them. After every call you make using Connect-ED, you will receive a detailed report on the success rate and the bad phone numbers.