When important announcements—like school closures, delayed starts, or lockdowns—come up, jmc’s prerecorded voice messages help you communicate quickly and confidently. Record messages in your own voice to deliver timely updates in a personal, reliable way families and students can trust.
Once recorded, messages can be reused from the Message Center or the Admin/Connect app, so your school community receives consistent, accurate information whenever it’s needed.
Record a prerecorded phone message
Navigate to File > Administrator Options, then click the "Phone Dialer Settings" link to start recording a voice message.
Step One: Call your jmc-assigned Message Center phone number to access the voice recording menu and record a custom message.
Step Two: Enter the "Access Code" on the phone’s keypad when prompted to access the voice recording option.
Step Three: Press “1” on your phone’s keypad to record a new message.
Helpful Tip: To save time, send a previously recorded message by pressing “2” on the phone’s keypad when prompted.
Step Four: Press the “#” key on your phone’s keypad to review the message and access additional options.
Step Five: Press “1” on the phone’s keypad, then choose the recipients to confirm and send the message:
1 for contacts related to Emergencies/Weather
2 for contacts related to Students
3 for contacts related to General School Information
Additional options:
Press 2 to save the message for future use
Press 3 to replay the message
Press 4 to re-record the message
Press 5 to cancel the message
Helpful Tip: From the jmc Office Message Center, open the "Manage Phone Recordings" page to review, rename, or delete saved messages.
After recording and saving your message, use the Message Center to send it as a prerecorded phone call to the appropriate group of contacts.
Send a prerecorded phone call
To send a recorded phone call, log in to jmc Office and go to Message Center > Send Messages.
Step One: Select a radio button from the "Select" box to filter which contacts receive the recorded phone call, then complete the highlighted fields as needed.
Sequential: students with consecutive student ID numbers
Random: a custom selection of one or more students entered by name or student ID
By Grade: students filtered by grade level, with an optional gender filter
Advisor: students assigned to a specified range of advisor IDs
Course: students enrolled in one or more courses, selected by course name or teacher name
Activity: students participating in one or more activities
Bus Route #: students assigned to a specific bus route number
Random Contact: a custom selection of one or more contacts by name
Tag: students assigned a custom tag used to identify specific groups
Step Two: Select the "Recorded Phone Call" radio button from the "Message Type" box to send a prerecorded phone message.
Step Three: Place a checkmark in the appropriate checkbox to identify who should receive the message.
Contacts: all primary and secondary contacts
Primary Contacts Only: primary contacts only
Students: student cell numbers
Helpful Tip: Select both "Primary Contacts Only" and "Students" to send the message to both families and students.
Step Four: Place a checkmark in the "Call Group" box to select which contact type will receive the message.
Step Five: Click the "Send Now" or "Schedule Time" radio button to choose when the message is sent.
Helpful Tip: Select "Send Now" for immediate delivery or "Schedule Time" for future delivery, then enter the send date and time in the appropriate fields or use the calendar and clock icons.
Step Six: Select the recording you want to use in the "Recorded Messages" box, then click the "OK" button to confirm the prerecorded message.
Helpful Tip: After clicking the "Ok" button, review the message recipients by clicking the contact records found and student records found numbers.
Step Seven: Click the "Send" button to send the "Recorded Phone Call" message.
Helpful Tip: Monitor the status of the outgoing message by going to Message Center > Message Status.
Fun Fact: Click the "Reset" button to clear the form and create another message.