If your district is looking for better ways to communicate with parents about your transportation system, one of the best options is setting up a parental portal app.
Parent portal apps are protected and secured interfaces which allow recognized parents and guardians to access information about their students. They can serve many purposes, but one of the most effective applications is giving parents information about your bus schedule and ridership.
As a parent and a school administrator, your greatest concern is the safety of your kids. You need to know exactly where they are, what they are doing and what their parents are saying about where they should be. With many incidents of child abduction and kidnappings, the school and the transportation system to school and back to their homes needs to be monitored to ensure all the kids are where they are supposed to be. In order to protect your students, you need to adopt a student tracker, which will give you an edge in making sure they are safe.
As technology continues to evolve at a rapid rate, it’s only natural that we would start seeing innovations to the process of getting students to and from school. A few different school bus routing software companies have come out with driver navigation apps so it’s important to know what you’re looking for when you decide to purchase. We have compiled a list of 10 things that we believe are worth thinking about.
One of the primary concerns of school district administrators seeking to use fleet management and GPS tracking software for route optimization is the amount of time the implementation process takes. Bus routing software offers a significant number of benefits to school transportation programs. Some of the primary reasons administrators choose route management systems for their transportation needs include:
Every day we trust school bus drivers all across the country to safely transport our children to and from school and any programs in between. Most of us probably never give it a second thought. I just read an article awhile back that explains how a 17 year old passenger on a school bus prevented a traffic accident which would certainly have resulted in passenger injuries or maybe even deaths.
School buses are big. Really big! Whenever a school bus needs to turn around, especially when backing up, the potential for an accident is a lot higher. There are quite a few blind spots at the back of the bus that could prevent the driver from seeing a parked car or even a child.
What was once the stuff of science fiction, is now a way of life. The Internet is everywhere, even on school buses! One
district in California made the bold decision to make Wi-Fi available to its student population and the concept is quickly catching on. This may seem like just a luxury, but there are actually some solid reasons why school districts are offering Wi-Fi on school buses. Here are three key benefits:
BusBoss does a great job of automatically locating addresses, but there are times when it cannot find the school’s location. When this happens, you can use google maps to manually locate schools in BusBoss. Here’s how…
School buses transport millions of students each day to and from schools and special activities. During an average school year, around 10 billion student trips are made. Buses come in many designs and capacities and different districts have varying requirements regarding the age that each bus should be in service. Both of these factors, along with the size of your fleet, influence the total cost of school bus maintenance for your district.
Nobody likes to think about accidents or medical emergencies, especially when you’re also thinking about school buses and students. Accidents do happen. Medical emergencies do happen. It’s important that we prepare for them. One important thing you can do is to make sure you have details of each student’s special medical conditions on the school bus.
Not all students will have special medical conditions, but for those students that do, you should have the information available to the school bus driver, EMT’s and paramedics that may be dispatched during an emergency situation.
Using a high quality school bus routing application like BusBoss will certainly help to make this information available to your drivers. During an emergency situation, the driver can provide this information to emergency personnel so that appropriate treatment can be given to the students. Often times this information is available in your student information system, which is a convenient place to keep it for everyone except the bus driver. BusBoss allows special medical conditions to be imported in to the BusBoss database. This information will then print on various reports which can be given to the driver for storage on the school bus.
