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With over 20 million bookings per year, 4000+ schools' parents feel the far-reaching benefits of Parents Booking.

Parents' Evenings with In-person and/or Video Appointments

For eighteen years, Parents Booking has been providing schools with the premium tools required to organise the best parents' evenings possible, while saving schools time and money, and increasing their attendance and parent engagement.

In-person parents' evening appointments are a staple of the school experience. These are a fantastic opportunity for parents and teachers to meet, to set targets and discuss progress. Parents Booking's schools achieve their highest attendance possible by helping parents pick appointment times that suit them, while also calculating schedules that fit as many appointments in as possible.

In-person meetings are not the only option for schools, though. Schools who offer parents' evening appointments by video meeting often see even higher parents' evening attendances, which is why Parents Booking offers meeting in-person, or by video meeting, or as a mix of both (which we call a hybrid parents' evenings). Schools can set up meetings however they please, across multiple sessions or days, with different sessions for different types of meeting where wanted.

Parents Booking's video meetings are built for purpose, so rather than trying to use Microsoft Teams or Zoom, Parents Booking creates meetings automatically, based on the appointment schedules, so that when parents and teachers login they are shown a lobby, within which all their meetings will take place. A countdown timer manages the entire experience, automatially moving participants to their next appointment, as their previous meeting finishes. Parents, students, teachers and guests such as translators can all meet online, joining from different locations and devices where needed, using 'shareable links' when helpful. Once the meeting finishes, participants are shown how long it is until their next meeting and, without having to click a button or change web page, their next meeting will start at the scheduled time.

Best of all, Parents Booking integrates with the education technology that schools use, to make it easy to implement. A hurdle of implementing other systems is that parents need to register or have username and password credentials, but Parents Booking offers a secure and almost-frictionless login, so that it could not be easier for schools to launch and have parents login and make bookings.

Benefits of video and hyrbid meetings:

• Provides a greater degree of privacy.
• Enables the parent and teacher to raise discussion points prior to the meeting.
• A smoother and more flexible process means appointments should not start or finish late, which can lead to rushed conversations or missed appointments. The fully automated system switches you between appointments within a preset time frame.
• Increases parental attendance and engagement, removing barriers such as distance, transport and work commitments for more convenience.
• Less time-wastage, allowing for more appointments to take place.
• Less admin required to enhance school efficiency.
• A paperless process that is environmentally friendly and reduces the carbon footprint of the school and the parents.

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Teachers Can Set Up Their Own, Separate Meetings

Parents' evenings are not always the only or best way to connect with parents through a scheduled appointment. Parents Booking can privide teachers with the facility to set up "one to one" type meetings, separate to school-wide parents' evenings, making teacher-chosen time available time for selected parents to book in-person or video meetings. These are perfect for office hours, ad-hoc meetings, targetting meetings or where a teacher wants to invite a parent who missed a parents' evening appointment to talk later.