Catholic Ed Connect is a mission-driven mobile app designed to help Catholic School Staff improve communication and secure active participation of parents, students, and alumni. Catholic Ed. Catholic Ed. Connect has 4 primary objectives. Engage, Involve, Educate, and EvangelizeEngageCatholic Ed. Connect provides tools to help you effectively engage with the digital generation by helping you to accomplish the following:Digitally Connect with students, parents and alumniNotify of Latest School NewsProvide Digital Calendars of EventsContact School Staff through built in MessagingPublish Principal Thought of WeekManage School Video Library including events, video homework, and more Recognize School SupportersConnect School Community through targeted social blogsInvolveCatholic Ed. Connect simplifies getting your students, parents, and alumni involved in activities of the school by providing simple-to-use automation tools that make it easy for your community to become involved in the School Ministry. Our automation tools also reduce staff time needed to collect data and generate reports. Using Catholic Ed. Connect you can:Push out digital workflows/forms to users/groupsAutomate Volunteer Recruiting Simplify Registration ProcessesAutomate Permission formsUtilize automatic remindersAccept Credit Card PaymentsGenerate Back-end Reports reducing staff timeAnd much moreEducateTodays digital generation understands mobile technology and responds well to educators that use this technology to support their classroom efforts. Catholic Ed. Connect has technology that educators can use to help children learn. Streamline communication between students, parents, and alumniNotify of latest school and classroom events/newsProvide digital calendar of class milestones including due dates, quiz/test datesStudents, parents, or Alumni can easily contact school staff through built in messagingPublish Principal Thought of the WeekManage Classroom Video Library including classroom activities video homework and moreConnect students and teachers through targeted class /teacher blogs Provide class social blogs to encourage students to interact and learn together EvangelizeThe most important mission of our Catholic Ed. Connect App is to help our Catholic Schools spread the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. Pope Francis has defined Evangelize as To give witness with joy and simplicity to what we are and what we believe in. Using Catholic Connect will help you evangelize to the digital generation enabling you to: Provide timely Catholic PrayersGive digital witness to Jesus ChristAccess Daily Mass ReadingsProvide valuable Digital DevotionsAccess Old and New TestamentsIncrease student comfort level for ReconciliationGrow your Catholic Faith CommunityCatholic Ed Connect has no up-front set-up costs and as low as a $99 per month subscription fee (per school) all without including ads and with a guarantee that your parents or students data will not be sold or used in any way. In other words, the app provides zero increase to your parents and students digital footprints. Catholic Ed. Connect natively supports market leading Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) as well as provides a browser based app for use on personal computers. The app is also simple to purchase. From your iPad, just download the Catholic Ed Connect Admin Console App from the Apple App Store. Then sign-up for the monthly subscription option of your choice (no commitment required beyond Month One) and in just a few minutes, you can begin to configure your schools app. In a month or less, your app and PC accessible site will be available for access by your parents and students as FSG Mobile does all of the work of submitting and updating your app to the App Stores.