Organizing Classroom Events, PTA, Teacher’s Groups, and More – MyClassHelper

Friday, July 31st, 2009 Comments 0
  Posted in Featured, Teamr Spotlight

Keeping track of schedules, RSVPs, volunteers, and other classroom-related events is not always easy.  Often, it involves a lot of people and a lot of coordinating.  MyClassHelper.com can help with that.

It’s a web-based tool with a lot of great management options for keeping track of every event related to your classroom, school, PTA, etc.  You can easily coordinate single or multiple events involving a few or many people.

Best of all?  This website is free!

Here’s a good example of how this can work for the busy classroom.

A teacher has a field trip coming up in two weeks and needs parental permission forms, volunteers to help chaperone the students, and needs to keep the PTA and school administration informed of the event plans.

She could create a huge email list with everyone on it and send out email blasts to everyone regarding everything to do with the field trip.  This won’t likely make it easy to track who’s going to be helping with what and most people aren’t very excited about getting a lot of email traffic like that.

The task becomes simpler if she uses MyClassHelper.com instead.  She can set up her account to manage the event (or multiple events), have it send email invites to parents, other teachers involved,  school administration, and the PTA members involved.  She can then organize these people into sub-groups so that information relevant to one group isn’t sent to the other when it’s not needed.

Now, she can get permission slip reminders automatically sent to the parents so they won’t forget, she can have emails asking for RSVP to volunteer include an easy one-click link so that people can affirm they want to volunteer, and more.

Multiple events can be put into the calendar so that everyone involved in the class knows about every event happening.  These can be imported into popular calendar software and printed for handouts as well.  Even donations and payments can be managed through MyClassHelper.com.

There are literally hundreds of ways this site can save the busy teacher or classroom event organizer a lot of time.  Plus, not only does it keep parents and others informed about events, but it saves them time and headaches too, since they only get the information they need and don’t need to sift through piles of emails to get it.

MyClassHelper

Online volunteer schedule management for all types of events
Automatically remind parents and volunteers of upcoming events via email and/or text messages
Request items for students to bring for events
Encourage communication among volunteers with the Forum
Define events in your calendar once and share them with your class
Manage donations and payments for your activities
Sell items and receive donations through your online store
Upload permission slips for parents to download, print, sign and send in

Definitely a site worth checking out or showing to your favorite (overworked) teacher!

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