App Notification Options

App Notification Options

There are multiple options for the Bus Compass notifications that a parent will receive. Your school should consider which of these options you would like to enable:
Option
Description
Notes

Base – Bus approaching 

Bus Compass will notify when the bus is three stops away. Should the student’s stop be less than three stops from the bus barn, there will be a notification that the bus has left and from every stop after that. See figure 1.

To receive these notifications, the bus must register the prior stop and both the bus and the Bus Compass user must have a cellular signal. 

Option – No approaching notifications 

The school can turn off notifications that the bus is approaching. 

Some schools have elected to turn off notifications of the approaching bus so that the student relies on the planned time and cannot use Bus Compass as an excuse for being late to the stop. 

Base – Student on/off bus 

Bus Compass will indicate when and where the student has boarded or exited the bus. See figure 2.


Student on/off notification 

The school can optionally send a notification upon every swipe on and off the bus.

While some schools have elected to do this, it is important to be aware that the timeliness of the guardian notification can be impacted by the cellular coverage for the bus and the guardian. The notifications can also be overwhelming for some guardians. 

Push Notifications 

The school can send push notifications per options shown in figure 3.

An example of how a push notification looks is shown in figure 4. 

Figure 1. Notification of approaching bus.
Figure 2. Notification of boarding.
Figure 3. How to send a push notification.
Figure 4. What a received push notification looks like.

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