If anyone is requesting to be added to SchoolMessenger alerts as an additional EXTRA contact, the process has been automated and made it much easier. It is now a Google Spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet is titled "SchoolMessenger Additional Contacts", it maybe advantageous to bookmark this URL (permission protected): https://docs.google.com/
Between 4am-5am every morning, the Google spreadsheet will export to CSV (via the spreadsheet owner account then go to https://script.google.com/home). By 5:25am SchoolMessenger will have read in the CSV file into the SchoolMessenger "Extra Contacts" list.
When a person requests to receive SchoolMessenger alerts, do the following:
- Check PowerSchool contacts to make sure they are not in there
- Check the Google spreadsheet to see if they exist and if not then add them to the spreadsheet.
- Note: Follow the special instructions placed in the "zInstructions" tab of the spreadsheet.
This spreadsheet can be shared with someone else to update as needed.