Hi, my name is Brent De Bleser and I’m the ISS Communications Officer. In this video I will guide you around on the ISS Community Portal, our communications platform that we use for important updates for our current ISS parents and students.

The website link for our ISS Community Portal is ‘portal.isstavanger.no’. When you go to the Portal for the first time, the page will ask you for a username and password. For all users this login information is the same. You can get access with the username ‘parent’ and the password ‘ I$$parent4043’. The Portal has a clean navigation with 3 different sections. At the top of the page, you can see our menu, in the middle section you can see the latest updates with the newest updates showing at the top and on the right hand side there are a few quick links to some of our most popular pages of the Portal. When you look at the Community Portal on your mobile phone, you will notice that the layout is a bit different.

Let’s explore the main menu first. In the main menu you can see the three ISS departments: Early Childhood and Primary School, Middle School and High School. Here you can find information and updates for that specific department. When we look at the ECPS department for example and we click on news, only the news updates for ECPS will show up. Also here, the most recent updates appear at the top of the page. Under the General Information tab, parents can find all the important documents like the curriculum overview, a staff list and important dates. Under ECPS we also still have a link to our ECPS calendar and a link to a page with the class blogs. On this page you can click on the class blog of your child’s class and you will be directed to that page. The Middle School and High School tab have the same information about these school departments. We have a fourth tab in this top menu for our ‘Community Pages’ for the whole school like the Director’s Message, Athletic Department Page, Technology…

Clicking the school logo will take you back to our Community Portal homepage. The middle section includes all the messages that were posted. When you click on the title of the post, you can read the whole blog post. Finally on the right hand side we have useful quicklinks. These popular links offer quick access to one of the pages like for example the school calendar and our Cafeteria page where you can find the hot lunch menu for the week.

All new parents will also be added to our automated email notifications system. When there is a new Portal update, you will automatically receive an email to notify you that there is a new message. If you want to customize your notifications, you can click the link that says manage and customize your subscriptions. A link will be emailed to you so you can select your subscriptions yourself by selecting or deselecting the categories. Once you click ‘Update Profile’ your preferences are saved. 

If you still have any questions about the Community Portal or you are not receiving any email notifications, please send an email to communications@isstavanger.no. Have a wonderful day and welcome to ISS!