Private messaging
Every conversation private. Every conversation accountable.
School Courier messaging connects families directly with teachers, coaches, and administrators — without personal phone numbers, without consumer apps, and without conversations your school can’t stand behind. Every message is tracked & reviewable.
Role-based by design
The right people can reach each other. The wrong ones can’t.
Message permissions follow account types your school controls — so the messaging map matches how a school actually works.
Families ↔ Staff
Parents and students reach teachers, coaches & administrators directly — a question about homework, a heads-up about pickup, a conversation that used to be a phone-tag chain.
Staff ↔ Staff
Teachers, coaches, and administrators coordinate inside the same private platform — no side channels, no lost context, no personal numbers exchanged.
Students ✕ Students
Students and parents can never message one another. School Courier is a school-communication tool — not a social network for kids.
The difference
Not a consumer app wearing a school sweater
Texting, WhatsApp threads, and social-media DMs were built for friends — not for the duty of care a school carries. Here’s what changes when messaging is purpose-built.
| What matters | Personal texting & DMs | School Courier |
|---|---|---|
| Staff privacy | Personal phone numbers shared with families | Numbers stay private — messaging happens in the school’s app |
| Oversight | Invisible to the school; no record if questions arise | Every message tracked & reviewable by administrators |
| Who can reach kids | Anyone with the handle or number | Only approved staff, coaches & administrators |
| Records & retention | Scattered across personal devices | Retained on the platform, supporting records & compliance obligations |
| Distractions | Ads, stories, strangers, and everything else in the app | No ads, no outside content — just your school |
Built for school life
Everything a school conversation needs
- One-to-one conversations between a family and a staff member
- Push notifications on iOS & Android — even when the app is closed
- Per-channel notification controls, so staff manage their own boundaries
- Writing Help in the composer — clearer, shorter, warmer, more detail, grammar — plus one-tap translation into 10 languages for posts to multilingual families
- Report & block tools backed by a zero-tolerance moderation policy
- Message retention & administrator review, supporting your compliance obligations
For group communication — a whole team, a whole classroom — staff post once to the group and every follower is notified. Broadcast belongs in groups; conversation belongs in messages. Both stay on the platform.
Questions