Digistorm Insights

Digistorm Apps + Veracross: powerful community engagement

Written by Samantha K | Mar 21, 2024 3:24:55 AM

Families can be an understandably frantic bunch. With so much to juggle and so little time, staying on top of school communications can prove challenging. That's where a Digistorm App comes in. Allowing your families to access everything they need right there in the palm of their hand, with a single sign-on and a few simple clicks.  

For schools empowered with a Veracross SIS, the Digistorm App integration will be a game changer that sees your whole community impressed. News, events, athletics, classes, grades, schedules, student logistic requests, staff directories—you name it, they can access it.  

What is Veracross? 

Veracross is a technology innovator leading the Ed-tech space with their cloud-based SIS platform. Designed to meet the unique needs of independent schools and currently serving more than 2,500 schools from over 60 countries across the world, their ‘one person, one record’ platform is a tried and test school tech solution. The benefit of a one-record-for-life database is that it allows schools to access a single source of truth across all departments.   

How Veracross works 

With Veracross, schools improve the user experience for their families and students, enhancing learning and fostering a whole new level of school-wide collaboration. Their top priority is ensuring the confidentiality, security, and availability of customer data by always maintaining best-in-class security standards, and a world-class API that synchronizes data seamlessly from a school’s preferred software to the Veracross one-record architecture. 

How the integration works

The Digistorm App connects securely and seamlessly to the Veracross platform, making Veracross modules available live via your school app. From schedules to student logistic requests, we've linked up your families favourite Veracross modules for a very powerful app. 

The features   

Let’s look at some of the key features of the Digistorm App integrated with Veracross, as loved by our schools. 

Custom branding 

The Digistorm App for Veracross is designed to match your school’s brand! This means you can customize the way things appear in your app, choosing things like colors, buttons, images, and text styles. This will give your families a consistent experience, and make them feel at home when they open the app.

I chose to work with Digistorm to implement an integrated Veracross app because I was excited about their vision to design an efficient communication tool for our school community. In our very first meeting, it was clear the Digistorm team was eager to listen to our school’s needs and work diligently with Veracross to build a custom platform.

~Scott Cagle, Director of Technology at Seven Hills

 

Single sign-on 

With simple and secure single sign-on authentication, families can access their App and Veracross features with the same log-in details. So whatever details they have set up for Veracross can translate across to their Digistorm App! One less password to remember (sigh).  

Centralized information 

With easy access to important information, including some of Veracross’s most loved features, the Digistorm App for Veracross will become your community’s central hub. Get to know the list of modules below that will flow seamlessly from Veracross to your Digistorm App. 

The modules

Convenient communication means offering your community everything they need to know in one spot. That’s why the Digistorm App integrates with all the best Veracross modules. Everything from athletics updates to live timetables will be right there in the palm of their hand.  

News, events and athletics 

Fostering a sense of community and positivity from your families is easy when communication is simplified. With Veracross news, events and athletics modules accessible through the school app, parents will never miss a beat. 

Classes, grades and schedules 

Parents and students can stay updated with academic performance and daily routines with direct access to Veracross's classes, grades and schedules. This includes access to fine details like upcoming assessments, what teachers a student has in the coming weeks, and class locations. 

Student logistic requests and staff directory

From absences to transportation plans or extended care schedules—communication from families to the school has never been easier! With easy access to the staff directory and student logistics right there in their school app.