In jmc, contacts are linked with students to grant access to the jmc Family portal and enable messaging functions tailored to their relationship with the student. On the "View Student Data" page, users can associate up to ten contacts with a student for various purposes, such as primary, lunch, or emergency contacts. This ensures that adults who play significant roles in a student's life have appropriate access and communication channels within the system.
Get started attaching contacts to students by navigating to the "View Student Data" page.
Step One: Select the student to be edited by entering their name in the "Find" drop-down list.
Step Two: Select "Empty Contact" from the contacts drop-down list to associate a contact with a student or to review or edit an existing contact already associated with a student select the contact from the drop-down list.
Step Three: Select the appropriate contact type from the "Type" drop-down list to define the contact's relationship to the student.
Primary: contacts responsible for a student's day-to-day well-being and activities. In most cases, these are parents, stepparents, and guardians, but in some cases could be grandparents.
Secondary: contacts responsible for a student but are not the primary caretakers. Typically, these folks are non-custodial aunts and uncles, grandparents, neighbors, or babysitters.
Emergency: contact to call when a parent/guardian is unavailable during an emergency.
Lunch: contact responsible for paying the account balance for a student's breakfast, lunch, and a la carte items or for applying for free/reduced status.
Doctor: student's primary care physician.
Storm: where a student goes during inclement weather.
Other: contacts who don't fit into any of the other categories.
Fee/Organization: contact responsible for paying any fees (registration, athletic, activity) that a student accrues.
Helpful Tip: Attach up to 10 contacts to a student including multiple primary contacts for parents or guardians that are connected to a student but live in separate residences and need separate login credentials.
Step Four: Click the "Change Contact" button and select the contact to be attached to the student from the "Select A Contact" drop-down list.
Helpful Tip: Not seeing the contact you are looking for? Head to Attendance > Contacts > Edit Contacts to enter a contact into jmc.
Step Five: Click the "OK" button to continue or the "Close" button to cancel the contact selection.
Step Six (optional): Enter a description such as "Dad" or "Grandma in the "Desc:" field to further distinguish the relationship between the contact and student.
Step Seven (optional): Place a checkmark in the "In Mailings", "In Reports", "Lunch" or "T/F Access" checkboxes to include the listed contact in mailed communication, attendance communication or to grant access to student lunch and/or tuition and fee accounts.
Helpful Tip: Need to share contacts between students? Just click the "Copy Contacts" button, choose the student whose contacts you want to copy, and streamline the contact association process in seconds.
Fun Fact: If a contact is no longer associated with the student click the "Clear" button to detach a them from the student.
Step Eight: Click the "Save" button to save your new student/contact association to the student's record.