Appscook Technologies, headquartered in 'God's own Country', Thrissur, Kerala is a software company with a core focus on product development in the areas of Education, Learning and Knowledge enhancement. We have successfully synchronized and coordinated the existing methodologies in the educational sector with the ongoing advancements in the digital technological realm with a keen eye on all future hi-tech innovations and progressions.

With the aid of modern software knowhow and technologies, our intuitive software, Parent Connect is a complete solution when it comes to meeting your awareness and involvement in your child's education and school-based learning and activities. The combined benefits, features and services offered by this intuitive and discerning software product is one that would not only simplify and abridge the communication connect between the designated stakeholders but also keep us in reckoning in the years to come. Our innovative product has helped break communication barriers, cementing and sealing any form of lacuna and filling any gaps or void in the communication stream both from the school to parents and students and vice-versa.
Ever since our product launch, the Parent Connect clientele list is only getting better and bigger. Today, we are catering to over 60 schools and still counting... We are steadily branching out and aim to have a good pan Indian and global presence rapidly.

"Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain roles and relationships with children that are comprehensive, dynamic, and differentiated"

Sarah Lawrence, Lightfoot

At Parent Connect, a traditional model has been acclimatized and adapted to suit the present-day scenario to increase better connectivity and interactions between all concerned stakeholders, 'i.e. parents, school, teachers and the students.

Our unique Parent Connect product was more an outcome of careful and thorough research and understanding of the prevailing times and situations for students, schools and parents alike. We developed the concept, factoring all elements and fundamentals to make the concept an easy-to-use, easily accessible, user-friendly and practical model.

We carefully and thoughtfully intertwined all the corresponding factors that complemented and enhanced all existing modes of communication. This blended approach to a solid and established means of communication gave the concept its natural shape and outline while combining the many available benefits and advantages of using technology in the educational sphere.

• Parent Connect is an advanced tech solution that aids in reducing man-hours spent in updating school diaries, notifications and notes or intimations sent to parents. This type of workload would be visibly higher especially in the junior Grades from Nursery through the Primary levels.
• All relevant instructions, information, notifications and intimations from the School and/or Teachers would be conveyed and transmitted to parents directly and instantaneously via the Parent Connect platform.
• Dedicated and separate logins for teachers and parents.
• Specific and select message audience like teachers, non-teaching staff, PTA executives, school bus drivers, new joiners or admissions, direct board / management committee members, well-wishers can be sent out.
Teachers can upload notes which can be accessed and print outs can be taken by the parents/ students.
• School Academic calendar for the year can be accessed by parents / students.
• Updated reports of portions covered for the day by the Teacher.
• An assessment and evaluation of Teachers (based on the portions covered)
• School Fees and other payment reminders will be sent to parents' as per the calendar year.
• Specific, impromptu and unexpected intimations aimed more on a group level like unexpected holidays, strikes or sudden happenings will also be conveyed via the Parent Connect medium.
• Absolute and complete solutions for CCE.
• Adapting and including this state-of-the-art technology in the regular School curriculum and functioning is definitely a value-add and the school has a better presence in terms of the services and amenities offered by the school to all their students.
• Incorporating these digital platforms helps the educational institution attain improved and global operational standards.
• All this and more at no additional costs and infrastructure set-up or operations and manpower

• The Parent Connect digital technology platform serves as an interactive medium 'between the educators and the guardians'.
• We aim at bettering the communication path between the institutions, schools and parents and thus fostering and forging better and more established relationships.
• With the advent of our Parent Connect platform, our interactive application, has facilitated more parents to be more active, vigilant and better involved in their child's school and study-related activities.
• The proposed digital technology solution, Parent Connect is designed more as an application that facilitates functionally enhanced, user-friendly mobile solutions that allows parents and teachers to communicate regularly via the digital medium.
• Services like homework assignments, tests, coursework, project assignments, competitions both within and outside the school premises, student absence notifications, special and specific instructions and advice and also the sections for each subject covered in a day on an ongoing basis is conveyed to the parents.

It is evident that there is an emerging consensus, an acceptance among both parents and educational institutions to adapt to digital technologies that aids in better, faster and more effective forms of communication between the schools and parents factoring in our fast-paced lives, and the times we are living in.
Therefore, it is all the more prudent and advisable to have a technology positive outlook and adopt and adapt to safe and informative platforms like Parent Connect. And in the process warrant and amalgamate all interrelated notions, practices and ideas for free-flowing communication between the concerned stakeholders.