ABOUT
AYO’s Family Feed is a family’s go-to hub to find personalized updates for their child(ren), classroom activities, campus events, and district initiatives all in one place. We believe in the power of partnership between schools and families. With Family Feed, they will gain insights to help them actively engage in their child's educational experience, making learning a collaborative adventure.
This feature also serves as a communication tool for our Mesquite ISD family. District and campus personnel are able to post announcements and share information with staff and students across the district and on your campuses.
TRAININGS
Educator flyer
Guidelines for what to post
Training slide deck
Access the training slide decks for families, in English and Spanish. Additional resources include:
Mini-course on the district website
How to login and use the MyAYO mobile app
Access the training slide deck that shares expectations, beginning of year posting timeline, and step by step instructions on how to access and use the web and mobile platform. Additional resources include:
How students login and use video
A couple big reasons.
We believe each student is unique.
We believe an involved community positively impacts our students.
We want to making it easy for you to create connections between families and your classroom. Family Feed will help transform parents and guardians into active partners in support of their students.
Family Feed follows all the policies regarding electronic communication between employees, students and parent/guardians outline in the MISD Employee and Student Handbooks.
Rostered with all your students’ and parents/guardians’ contact information directly from Skyward
Offer a dedicated space to share info, updates, reminders, events, and more
Automatically include parents on all communication with students – whole group and 1:1
Keep track of conversations and posting times, showing who has viewed messages
Accessible on the web and mobile devices
Hear more from Dr. Rivera.
Access AYO on the Web: Teachers and students login to AYO through the MISD Portal.
Download the Mobile App: The MyAYO mobile app complements the AYO web platform and serves as a helpful tool to quickly access Family Feed and Club Hub to stay in the know. Search for MyAYO in your app store or click below to download now.
🔐 Parents login with their Skyward username and password. More info on Skyward Family Access is found here.
Use THESE INSTRUCTIONS to enable MyAYO Notifications on your Apple or Android phone.
Teachers of record have access to post to each of your classes and to individual students.
Principals, Assistant Principals, Counselors and Librarians have access to post to the entire campus, grade levels, individual classrooms, and individual students.
If you think you should have additional posting access, talk to your campus principal or supervisor.
Review the Staff Training slide deck to find out what you should post based on your role - classroom level access vs. campus-wide access. It is best practice to consistently post weekly on the same day and time each week. Here are guidelines on what teachers, the campus, and the district should post.
Skylert has been replaced by Parent Square. Parent Square messages are for mass communication at the campus level. As we continue to onboard families to Family Feed, campuses can use Parent Square to help get the word out. Keep in mind, Family Feed posts tagged as Important Messages will email families, as well as send push notifications in the mobile app.
Mesquite ISD uses Parent Square, a notification system, to deliver emergency notifications to families as quickly as possible. With this system, MISD can send thousands of alerts by phone, email, and text in a matter of minutes.
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