New mobile app + chat features

Introducing Finalsite's new mobile app + chat!

App Deployment with your Project Management team

Your Project Management team will walk through the process of configuring your new Mobile App with you and your team, facilitating the content setup process. Together you will customize your app's look and feel so that your community can feel familiar and stay engaged.

Contact your Client Success Manager for more information on how to get started, or email clientsuccess@finalsite.com and we will be happy to get you started! 

Manage your CMS modules and home screen

Your branded app integrates the beautiful content you have created on your CMS and utilizes it for mass communication with your families. Connect your CMS areas to your New Mobile App and configure which content will display on your app. In your Mobile Apps module, you can go in to Content Settings to manage how your content displays on your home screen, even after your app has been launched to your community. Which areas receive the highest traffic? Keep your community engaged by giving them what they are looking for! 

• Dynamically connect news items and events to your home screen.
• Configure a separate news screen and calendar/events screen. 
• Display photos in albums and rename your button to "Gallery", "Photos", or something even more creative! 
• Make your contact info available in with location filtering and directories. You can even control visibility by role (e.g. only faculty and staff can see parent contact info, etc). 
• Automatically sync team and game schedules from Athletics Manager onto your athletics or sports screen. 

See also: 

• Manage your CMS connections on the Mobile App
• Manage your New Mobile App home screen

Customize your navigation buttons

Provide access to the areas of your Mobile App that are of most interest to your community by customizing the labels and icons of your buttons in the bottom navigation bar. Easily add a button, reorganize your buttons, remove a button, replace a button, and re-add a previously used button. The More button in the bottom right corner takes your app user to a second screen where you can then organize other buttons into sections for ease-of-use.

See also: 

• Manage your New Mobile App home screen

Chat with your community!

Within our new mobile app, we also offer parent-teacher chat including the following features: 

• direct message and chat rooms for parents, teachers, coaches, and administrators
• SIS channel rostering and chat room creation
• district oversight and monitoring
• chat moderation and profanity filtering
• emojis 
• file and media sharing
• translation of chat messages

See also: 

• Chat via Finalsite's new mobile app

Push messages to the mobile app

Ensure even more thorough delivery of communication by pushing communication being written in Messages and Messages XR as a notification to the mobile app. 

Utilize our community rollout materials

Go to https://www.finalsite.com/launch-kit to access amazing resources and materials to communicate this exciting news with your community. Check out this video sneak peek!