{"id":19110,"date":"2026-09-08T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/bradford\/?post_type=news&#038;p=19110"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:10:10","slug":"updating-parentsquare-notification-settings","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/bradford\/news\/updating-parentsquare-notification-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating ParentSquare Notification Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b>Updating ParentSquare Notification Settings<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ParentSquare allows you to control how and when you receive updates from your school, teachers and KUSD. See below for recommendations and steps for updating your notification settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udea8 Urgent Alerts<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>You cannot turn these alerts off<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Used for critical, time-sensitive information<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can be sent regardless of other notification settings<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udd14 School Alerts &amp; Smart Alerts<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Keep school and district alerts toggled ON<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Used for time-sensitive information, such as snow days and other important updates<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alerts can be delivered by text, email, phone call, or all three<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udcec Regular Posts and Direct Messages<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Posts contain non-urgent information such as upcoming events and reminders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Direct messages are two-way communication between parents and individual staff members<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Choose either Instant (immediate) or Digest (once daily easy-to-read notification)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2b50 Recommended Settings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To receive one daily easy-to-read notification, we recommend using the <\/span><b><i>Digest <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">setting<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instant: Receive notifications in real time<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digest: Receive one daily notification containing all updates.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Off: You will not receive notifications\/updates<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you previously replied STOP to text messages, you can opt back in by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Replying START to a ParentSquare text message you previously received, or<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texting START to 66458<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udcbb Update Your Notification Settings on a Computer<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select your name in the upper-right corner<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select Manage Account<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select Notification Settings<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud83d\udcf1 Update Your Notification Settings in the ParentSquare App<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the Home screen, tap the Menu (\u2630) in the upper-left corner<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select Account<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select Preferences<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select Notifications<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19111,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-19110","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/bradford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/bradford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/bradford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/bradford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/bradford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/bradford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}