To get the most out of your School Community it pays to be proactive when it comes to communication. Get ahead and take advantage of scheduling and messaging tools to give parents plenty of advanced notice (and the occasional reminder). It is never fun when communications are last minute, they stress you out - and they will stress your parents out too.

So let's take a breath, 1... 2.. 3... and schedule. Phew.

Most of us have some kind of daily routine, whether it's rolling out of bed and heading for the coffee or even striking some morning yoga. We want parents to be able to passively check the school news and to take an interest in school-life without that requiring extensive time investment.

It's why our parental engagement tools include News Stream and Forums amongst others. They are channels that allow you to nurture your school community intuitively.

Most of us know analytics as those obscure graphs and numbers that seem to say a lot, without saying anything.

Genius is EdUnity's intelligent-assist tool, it constantly monitors your app's performance and analytics to provide relevant and useful insights that drive a measurable change in engagement levels. Now analytics can actually be useful.