Best Messaging Apps and Websites for Students, Teachers, and Parents

Friendly, free tool for school-to-home communication facilitates connection

Bottom Line: This versatile platform offers lots of possibilities for classroom management and keeping caregivers in the loop if teachers create meaningful posts and interactions.

Share files, photos, videos with simple caregiver communication platform

Bottom Line: A simple, practical tool for fostering communication between home and school.

Home-school messaging best for organizing events, simple communication

Bottom Line: This free tool has the basic pieces of a group messaging platform but lacks some fancier bells and whistles.

Versatile communication tool fosters parent involvement

Bottom Line: Helps schools comprehensively streamline communication between school staff and families.

Messaging platform offers tight focus on school-to-home connection

Bottom Line: Well-designed, highly effective messaging tool delivers on its promise to connect home and school.

Stellar translation, speech features boost parent-teacher messenger

Bottom Line: If your school or district makes the investment, this is a neat and accessible way to keep parents engaged.

Multilingual texting tool enhances school-to-home communication

Bottom Line: Easy-to-use tool for supporting communication and engagement with families in 100+ languages.

Effective district-wide communication platform for school and home

Bottom Line: This multifunctional platform provides many ways for districts, admins, teachers, families, and students to connect and offers a ton of features—perhaps even too many, for some.

Multimedia digital portfolios connect students, teachers, and parents

Bottom Line: It's designed with student learning in mind, and teachers can encourage students to submit quality content and engage in reflective feedback.

Exemplar bridge between home and school also aids learning

Bottom Line: When used thoughtfully, ClassDojo can help adults support students' growth through goal-setting, reflection, and celebration.

Flexible, user-friendly tool gets teachers and families in sync

Bottom Line: Practical communication options allow teachers to effectively communicate classroom happenings and needs to families.

Versatile digital portfolio appeals to teachers, students, and parents

Bottom Line: A powerful multimedia learning and communication tool that demonstrates student progress over time.

Messaging tool helps classrooms forge and foster meaningful dialogue

Bottom Line: This tool opens up avenues for conversation and relationship building between teachers and students.

Robust learning management tool comes with challenges

Bottom Line: With patience and creativity, it can evolve into a rich learning management system.

Organizational tool helps teachers plan, communicate with students

Bottom Line: Scheduling solution for teachers is at its best when used alongside student homework app.