Groupcall Xpressions
Free AppAbout Groupcall Xpressions
Schools must sign up to the Xpressions service in order for you to use this app. If you are unsure, please check with your school.
A child centred personal stream showing everything the school records about your child for you to see anytime, anywhere.
Uniquely positioned to offer bespoke & tailored information for each user – unlike similar apps, only the information that is marked as relevant to you & your child is displayed. A service designed to improve parental involvement that allows you to receive & view information directly on your device keeping you updated on a wide range of events about your children in close to real time.
The Groupcall Xpressions app is unique when compared to other school information apps in that it offers the unmatched ability to share confidential information securely. Meaning that, not only you as parents can rest safe in the knowledge that your children’s information is being transmitted safely, but schools too can revolutionise the way they share information. This, saving schools’ time & money whilst increasing effectiveness, makes the app a rare proposal in the industry.
>>Introducing: “Xpressions” – the all new live feed
As soon as you see your child after school you can ask them about their day in detail.
Just think how many times you may have asked the question … “What did you do at school today?” only to get the reply “nothing” or “can’t remember”.
As a parent using The Groupcall Xpressions app, you no longer need to ask! You can see what lessons your child has had, what lessons they have tomorrow & which school activities they are going to be taking part in. You can enquire about lesson content & homework, offering support to your child. With more detail than ever before you can get involved in their school life in a positive way, not just the ‘negatives’ such as poor behaviour or only the events teachers have time to tell you about (or those rumours you hear across the playground).
Using Groupcall Messenger schools can send FREE messages to parents who have the app on their smartphone. Messages could be general, such as alerting to a school closure, or personal, such as informing you of an absence from school.
Think of Xpressions as a personal timeline of a student’s life in school, with notifications on any number of configurable events.
>>Who Are Groupcall?
Launched in 2001, Groupcall provides communication & data solutions to the education, public & private sectors. Co-founded by Sir Bob Geldof, Groupcall is now one of the education sector market leaders with its parental communication system, Messenger, which is currently used in more than 5,000 schools throughout the UK & Europe, sending over 4 Million text messages every month. Recently, Groupcall won a contract to provide SMS services to all Scottish schools adding over 3,500 educational institutions to their installed base. See parents.groupcall.com > ‘About’ for more information.
>>I am a parent/adult wanting to use The Groupcall Xpressions app.
If your school has directed you to download the app then welcome - you'll soon be on your way to receiving your child's data in the palm of your hand!
All you need to do is download the app from your device’s app store (you can do that above). When the download & install is complete you simply need to provide your email address & mobile phone number where prompted in the app itself. These must match the details held by your school – we check their database to keep your child’s data secure. You’ll receive an SMS text message to double check you are who you say you are – simply enter this when prompted. If you get stuck, have a look at parents.groupcall.com where you’ll find plenty of information in order to get you moving. If you get really stuck, your school can help you too.
If your school has not yet signed up for the service why not tell them about it & ask them to get in touch with us via our website - groupcall.com.
A child centred personal stream showing everything the school records about your child for you to see anytime, anywhere.
Uniquely positioned to offer bespoke & tailored information for each user – unlike similar apps, only the information that is marked as relevant to you & your child is displayed. A service designed to improve parental involvement that allows you to receive & view information directly on your device keeping you updated on a wide range of events about your children in close to real time.
The Groupcall Xpressions app is unique when compared to other school information apps in that it offers the unmatched ability to share confidential information securely. Meaning that, not only you as parents can rest safe in the knowledge that your children’s information is being transmitted safely, but schools too can revolutionise the way they share information. This, saving schools’ time & money whilst increasing effectiveness, makes the app a rare proposal in the industry.
>>Introducing: “Xpressions” – the all new live feed
As soon as you see your child after school you can ask them about their day in detail.
Just think how many times you may have asked the question … “What did you do at school today?” only to get the reply “nothing” or “can’t remember”.
As a parent using The Groupcall Xpressions app, you no longer need to ask! You can see what lessons your child has had, what lessons they have tomorrow & which school activities they are going to be taking part in. You can enquire about lesson content & homework, offering support to your child. With more detail than ever before you can get involved in their school life in a positive way, not just the ‘negatives’ such as poor behaviour or only the events teachers have time to tell you about (or those rumours you hear across the playground).
Using Groupcall Messenger schools can send FREE messages to parents who have the app on their smartphone. Messages could be general, such as alerting to a school closure, or personal, such as informing you of an absence from school.
Think of Xpressions as a personal timeline of a student’s life in school, with notifications on any number of configurable events.
>>Who Are Groupcall?
Launched in 2001, Groupcall provides communication & data solutions to the education, public & private sectors. Co-founded by Sir Bob Geldof, Groupcall is now one of the education sector market leaders with its parental communication system, Messenger, which is currently used in more than 5,000 schools throughout the UK & Europe, sending over 4 Million text messages every month. Recently, Groupcall won a contract to provide SMS services to all Scottish schools adding over 3,500 educational institutions to their installed base. See parents.groupcall.com > ‘About’ for more information.
>>I am a parent/adult wanting to use The Groupcall Xpressions app.
If your school has directed you to download the app then welcome - you'll soon be on your way to receiving your child's data in the palm of your hand!
All you need to do is download the app from your device’s app store (you can do that above). When the download & install is complete you simply need to provide your email address & mobile phone number where prompted in the app itself. These must match the details held by your school – we check their database to keep your child’s data secure. You’ll receive an SMS text message to double check you are who you say you are – simply enter this when prompted. If you get stuck, have a look at parents.groupcall.com where you’ll find plenty of information in order to get you moving. If you get really stuck, your school can help you too.
If your school has not yet signed up for the service why not tell them about it & ask them to get in touch with us via our website - groupcall.com.
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Version update Groupcall Xpressions was updated to version 5.25
More downloads Groupcall Xpressions reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Version update Groupcall Xpressions was updated to version 3.33
More downloads Groupcall Xpressions reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
What are users saying about Groupcall Xpressions
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This app has a horrendous interface. I would advise schools to look elsewhere to save parents from using this. Ha! They updated it! Still hilariously terrible!
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Absolute rubbish! Gets worse rather than better. Can't get it to work at all on my new phone & just updated on old phone which now just shows a blank screen, no messages no settings just my name & the lock button. Not much use if school need to send a message!
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This is a horrendous app. It won't even accept my email address to log in. I got an email from the school via the app telling me to use the app but it doesn't work. Absolutly rubbish and a waste of time
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Everytime it does updates it dosen`t let me log back in keeps saying that my email address is wrong, yet its the same one I used before the update
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It's rubbish never loads the info properly, always times out!
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Have just downloaded this all it does is say child 2 has timed out...unable to download.. that's what it is on my phone.. on my tablet all it has is sliding white boxes!! Not good...
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Still having problems. I Uninstall, re-install, use it once, log in again and it says No such table Parentalchangedmarks. No idea why, such a faff
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All loaded on phone but unable to open any of the messages that are showing
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Won't start up at all...just says it has had an error and to give it 5 minutes. Have tried reinstalling but no difference.
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Too much problem...time to time I need to unstal and reinstal it...
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Won't let me open any messages
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Takes ages to load data of which there seems very little and often fails. Why all the messages that mean little to the user. It's like debug had been left on. Little content once finally in but suspect that is more the schools fault than the app itself.
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Was logged out after update and couldn't remember password but when pressed forgotten password said there was no option for this so can't get logged on
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I can only see text messages can't see timetable attendance ect. It has been updated uninstalled ect. Was working ok last week.
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Constantly having to re install getting boring now sort it
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Unable to load any data
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It doesn't work
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Has potential, but would love both parents to be able to sign in. Also more features would be useful.
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Great app when it works. Easy to see child's daily timetable as it happens, if they've arrived, achievements & attendance data etc. Keeps crashing. It goes from bad to worse. Constantly having to uninstall & re install to get the data. Today I reinstalled & was impressed with the updates however went back in at the end of the day & all the data has been wiped again..so it only works the once.... really
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Thanks to the developers for all their help. It now works on my Lenovo tablet.
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Confirmed with school who have all my correct details, can't load any information from this app onto my Sony Xperia....just hoping the schools haven't forked out any cash for this. Utterly useless, an app needs to work for all users when being rolled out as the go to source for information, very worrying that it seems to work for very few reviewers. Please don't reply saying it's an issue with the school as it obviously isn't.
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I would like to say a big thank you for sorting out the app and I know where to ask for help again
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Doesn't work on my device Nexus 6 with Android 7. Won't even run.
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No visible way to send messages, delete old incoming messages etc and no help section. Useless.
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I cannot get anything on my app was working fine for a week or so but now nothing I have a s6 and all my other apps are OK surely this should be working ok by now?????
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EDIT: this is def an issue with the app - my husband uses my login on his iPhone and receives notifications when there are new messages, so it's definitely being sent correctly by the school and my details are definitely correct with them. I do receive the messages but I have to actively login to check if there's anything there. - - - - - - - - Still no push notifications, despite them definitely being enabled in the settings - still therefore pretty useless. (Samsung Galaxy S7 - same issue on my old S6)
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Worked really well to start with now doesnt not impressed
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Works just as it says, brill app
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It's OK apart form I am not getting any info on my child but getting info from my daughters last year at primary school and not getting anything like it says on info here.which is pointless
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It fails to bring back the child details over 50% of the time. Would not choose to use it, it there was an option!
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Worked well for a couple of days but now just has constant errors trying to download stuff. Same as many other reviews on here. Given the very technical error messages (SQL error: missing table parentchangemarks!), I'm not really sure what the school can actually do about it!
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Fine when first logged on but since the school have added a photo I keep getting error messages and can't see attendance that I could before.
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Won't work without access to my files
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I don't appear to be getting any new messages, just some from last year on it. Very disappointed I have to say
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Initially worked fine, however it now goes offline, unable to complete the download for child's info ect and frequently states 'gateway timeout'. My daughter starts school tomorrow, let's hope I don't miss important information.
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It seems like only apple users are actually able to use this app. And it's really annoying. It says that the password or user is invalid and whatever. All my friends get to see their results and I don't . And they have apple. BRILLIANT
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skool gave me deatails. i go on to make account and it jus giving option to sign in?? i cnt sign in because i dnt have an account yet
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Logged in first time around
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Yet again this app is a serious let down. I have uninstalled it then reinstalled it after trying to open, the app it always timed out. Then forced it self close. So after reinstalling, guess what it still does the same. Glad I don't pay for it. Strong advice to new parents downloading this app. DON'T. RELY ON THE OLD FASHIONED WAY