We at Lightspeed Systems are pleased to announce the Parent Portal is now live and ready for use in My Big Campus.The Parent Portal and associated parent accounts will enhance school-home communication and encourage real-time engagement between teachers, parents, and students—transforming My Big Campus from a safe social collaboration tool to a complete classroom Learning Management System (LMS).
As a company, we are committed to helping educators establish active parent participation in the classroom. In addition to the ability to view schoolwork, assignments, announcements, and events, parents can also communicate directly with teachers—resulting in increased engagement and increased achievement.
Part learning management system, part social network, and part content management system, My Big Campus is the only solution that safely brings together all the tools students and educators need and makes them easy to access and easy to share—so it’s easy and fun to learn. Now with the addition of parent accounts, that circle of home-school collaboration and communication will be complete.
With the Parent Portal, parents can see:
- Activity: Review announcements from their students’ groups (classes, clubs, teams) and school, and new schoolwork assignments.
- Messages: Send/receive messages between parent, their student, and school staff.
- Schoolwork: View assignment descriptions and completed submissions, exchange comments with teachers, access reports.
- Kids Stuff: View and download content uploaded by their student.
- Calendar: See all district, school, group, schoolwork and personal events for their student.
- Groups: Monitor group announcements, pages, and resources. Group chat and discussions are not shown in the Parent Portal.
- School: Find school announcements, resources, and a staff directory.
Parents can also comment on Schoolwork, download files, and send conversations to their students, teachers, and school staff. And all parent access is given through data extracted from school’s Student Information System (SIS) integration with My Big Campus—ensuring and maintaining student safety.
The all new Parent Portal can be seen at parents.mybigcampus.com. To keep students safe, parent accounts are created through SIS import, therefore parents should contact their child’s teacher or school to get started on My Big Campus.
Schools already using My Big Campus can learn how to create parent accounts (also on the Lightspeed Wiki) and get some tips on rolling the site out to parents.