2 Simple steps...

1. CREATE your group,
2. Ask Players/Parents to JOIN,
Now you can POST messages to your group anytime you need to.

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1. CREATE

Using the school mobile phone text: the following to 53215

CREATE groupName 

You may have as many groupNames as you like so you may have a single group for the whole school or groups for each year/class.

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2. JOIN

To JOIN your school groups the parents need to know,

- The name of your group.
- The phone number of the school mobile. (groupMobile)

Usually this is done by sending an introductory letter (download a typical parent's letter here)

They text the following to 53215,

JOIN  groupName  groupMobile Childs_Name

Give them time to join and from then on you can send a message to the group using,

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3. POST

You can POST a message to your parents from the school mobile anytime by texting,the following to 53215,

POST groupName your_message 

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Other useful commands you can send to 53215

DELETE groupName Deletes a group

GROUPS List your groups

INFO groupName Size of group and last 3 joined