Contacts in jmc are parents, family members and other trusted adults that have close ties to the students in your school. Build your school's directory by adding contacts to utilize messaging features in jmc and to provide families access to jmc Family. Maintain an updated contact directory by editing existing contacts with current addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and more to ensure complete records and open clear lines of communication with the members of your immediate school community.

To add or edit a family contact record, go to Attendance > Contacts > Edit Contacts.

Step One: Select the existing contact to be edited by entering their name in the "Find" field or click the "Add" button to create a new contact.

Fun Fact: The names of students associated with the selected contact along with the type of association are displayed in the "Students with this Contact" list to help you identify members of the same family.

Step Two: Enter or edit the contact name, address, city and state in the appropriate fields to update the demographic information associated with the contact.

Helpful Tip: Create one primary contact entry that includes both parent names if parents/guardians live at the same address to ensure one mailing.

Step Three: Enter a username and password in the appropriate fields to provide login credentials to the jmc Family app.

Fun Fact: A family's default username is the last name of the contact however this can be updated to avoid confusion for contacts with the same last name.

Step Four: Enter up to eight email addresses in the appropriate fields to allow the selected contact to receive emails sent through the jmc messaging tools.

Fun Fact: When using jmc's messaging tools to send emails to a contact, the message will conveniently include all email addresses associated with that contact.

Step Five: Enter up to eight phone numbers for the contact in the "Phone" fields to associate a phone number with the selected contact.

Helpful Tip: Enter a description such as "Dad's cell" or "Mom's work" for each phone number in the "Description" field to easily identify the phone number on the "View Student Data" page.

Step Six: Select the appropriate option from the "Type" drop-down list to indicate whether the phone number is for a home, work, fax or cell phone.

Step Seven: Select a numeric rank from the "Rank" drop-down list to prioritize the order in which phone numbers are contacted.

Step Eight: Place a checkmark in the appropriate "Messaging service" checkboxes to specify the purpose or category of communication associated with the phone number.

Step Nine: Click either of the "Save" buttons to update changes to a contact or to add a new contact to your directory.

Helpful Tip: Click either of the "Delete" buttons to remove the selected contact from your directory or click either of the "Print" buttons to print a hard copy of the contact record.