In jmc, contacts include parents, family members, and other trusted adults connected to students in your school. By adding and updating contacts, you can build an accurate school directory, support messaging features in jmc, and provide families with access to the jmc Family portal. Keeping contact records current helps maintain complete information and supports clear, reliable communication with your school community.
To add or edit a family contact record, navigate to Attendance > Contacts > Edit Contacts.
Step One: Enter a name in the "Find" field to edit an existing contact, or click the "Add" button to create a new one.
Fun Fact: The "Students with this Contact" list displays the names of associated students and their relationship types, helping you identify members of the same family.
Step Two: Enter or edit the contact’s name, address, city, and state in the appropriate fields to update the contact’s demographic information.
Helpful Tip: Create one primary contact entry that includes both parent or guardian names when they live at the same address to support a single mailing.
Step Three: Enter a username and password in the appropriate fields to provide login credentials for the jmc Family app.
Fun Fact: A family’s default username is the contact’s last name; however, this can be updated to avoid confusion when multiple contacts share the same last name.
Step Four: Enter up to eight email addresses in the appropriate fields to allow the contact to receive emails sent through jmc messaging tools.
Fun Fact: When you send an email using jmc messaging tools, the message is delivered to all email addresses associated with the contact.
Step Five (optional): Select a language from the "Message Center Language" drop-down list to receive school communications in the family’s preferred language.
Step Six: 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”—in the "Description" field for each phone number to make it easier to identify on the "View Student Data" page.
Step Seven: 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 Eight: Select a numeric rank from the "Rank" drop-down list to set the order in which phone numbers are contacted.
Step Nine: Place a checkmark in the appropriate "Messaging service" checkboxes to specify how the phone number is used for school communications.
SMS (Text Message)*: allows the phone number to receive text messages when the number is identified as a cell phone
Emergency/Weather Related: includes the phone number in the Emergency/Weather-related call group for phone calls sent through Message Center
Student/Lunch Related: Includes the phone number in the Student/Lunch-related call group for phone calls sent through Message Center
General School Information: Includes the phone number in the General School Information call group for phone calls sent through Message Center
Step Ten: Click either of the "Save" buttons to apply changes to an existing contact or add a new contact to your directory.
Helpful Tip: Click either "Delete" button to remove the selected contact from your directory, or click either "Print" button to print a hard copy of the contact record.
Click either Delete button to remove the selected contact from your directory, or click either Print button to print a hard copy of the contact record.