Picture this: Families and district staff fully engaged in back-to-school activities instead of getting lost in registration paperwork. That can be your reality; all it takes is completing these top time-saving jmc online registration tasks recommended by our team of former-school staff members turned trainers.
Set the tone for a positive school year by adding custom instructions to the jmc Family portal message, assisting families in year-end transitions. For example: ‘The school year has ended. Please select the upcoming year from the login drop-down to view current info.’
Use the ‘Define Custom Fields’ page in jmc Office to create crystal-clear custom field questions for collecting permissions, medical emergency plans, and other essential registration info. Doing so will eliminate the need for pesky paper forms and reduce the chance of lost or incomplete information.
jmc’s ‘Upload Forms’ page allows you to turn any file on your computer into a registration form that families can sign from within the jmc Family portal. For families with multiple children in your district, you can make things easier for them by placing a checkmark in the ‘Contact Single Signature’ checkbox to allow the primary contact to sign the selected form just once for all children.
Your office can provide a seamless back-to-school registration experience by uploading all essential documents to jmc Family — such as computer-use policies, course descriptions, and handbooks — creating a convenient one-stop-shop for families to retrieve them. Sharing documents digitally also cuts down on printing costs for your office.
As submissions start to trickle in for the upcoming school year, communicate online registration status to the primary contacts of a selected group via email by using the ‘Email Finished Families’, ‘Email Not Finished Families’ and ‘Email Filtered Families’ options located in the ‘Quick Links’ section of the Progress Dashboard.
The articles that our team mentioned above are part of jmc’s fresh new Online Registration Resource Hub, developed to help you get the most out of our tools.