Johnston County Public Schools

today school is opening late. (not for obvious reasons, supposed weather, but its sunny and dry lol). the problem is the app doesnt notify about this at all. you literally not only have to review the feed, but have to review BOTH your kids schools feed and the Johnston County feed. the app needs to: - have an All Feeds option so if you subscribe to a school and JCPS feeds, youll miss one get the in one view. - there needs to be an option to get notifications for the feeds too. i shouldnt have to go into the app. this is why i still get more info from the schools marquee than the app, because that info reaches me with little effort, apps are capable of so much more if built well with user needs in mind. - both the "All Feeds" and the notification for feeds enabled, should be default settings, because users wont know they need to fix the app to work optimally. notifying and unified feeds are defaults most users will want.

This is by far the worst app I have every used. There is no potential. I am unsure who the developers are, but if you have a student with multiple classes requiring multiple teachers there should be a better way for communication. Perhaps a suggestion would be a specific feed for all updates rather than clicking on each individual class and a one step system where we don’t have to click multiple times to get to one teachers messages. Also, the app is laggy and constantly logs me out. I have 3 students enrolled in school, and for all 3 I cannot access any of their classes which had notifications. Who knows if it was important or not, because I sure don’t. It says neither of my kids are enrolled in any classes.

This app has great potential but right now it’s lacking. Navigation is difficult and not naturally intuitive. Notifications are not readily visible within the app so when a teacher sends a message you have to navigate through every child registered and every class they’re in so you can find the message that was sent. There is no way to acknowledge or respond to any announcements that teachers post so it’s impossible for parents to respond publicly and not at all possible for teachers to know who has even read the message/announcement. HUGE a potential to be a great app for the school system but some basic communication issues need to be corrected for ease of use.