Class cancellation notifications

Purpose

1.1. Automatedly notify students, parents, and staff when a class is canceled, minimizing confusion and ensuring real-time communication.
1.2. Automates updates across email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app alerts to provide comprehensive class disruption coverage.
1.3. Enables scheduling or immediate dispatch of notifications, supports custom templates, and integrates attendance tracking for complete event & class management automation.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Manual staff update via scheduling or class management system.
2.2. Automated detection of scheduling conflicts, instructor absence, or inclement weather inputs.
2.3. Integration with CRM or school website for real-time monitoring.

Platform Variants

3.1. Twilio SMS
- Feature/Setting: Configure Programmable Messaging API; set Virtual Number, automate sending template notifications to each student's mobile.
3.2. SendGrid
- Feature/Setting: Automate Transactional Email API; configure dynamic email templates, auto-populate with class and student data.
3.3. Mailchimp
- Feature/Setting: Use Campaigns API to automate event-triggered emails; segment lists by class/age group.
3.4. Slack
- Feature/Setting: Configure Incoming Webhooks to automate channel alerts for staff; set custom event trigger.
3.5. Microsoft Teams
- Feature/Setting: Automate via Teams Connector, post adaptive cards to specific group chats when a class is canceled.
3.6. Google Calendar
- Feature/Setting: Use Calendar API to automate calendar event updates and cancellations; send automated email invites to affected parties.
3.7. Zoom
- Feature/Setting: Automate with Meeting API to notify all invitees in case of virtual event cancellation.
3.8. WhatsApp Business API
- Feature/Setting: Automate template messages; automate trigger from class management platform for each group.
3.9. Telegram
- Feature/Setting: Automate via Bot API; broadcast push alerts to classes using chat IDs.
3.10. ActiveCampaign
- Feature/Setting: Automate email/SMS workflow builder; map triggers to cancellation in event management.
3.11. Pushover
- Feature/Setting: Automate real-time push notification for mobile/web; configure priority alert for class-level disruptions.
3.12. Facebook Messenger
- Feature/Setting: Automate using Page Messaging API; send class update notifications to subscribers.
3.13. Discord
- Feature/Setting: Automate via Webhook; notify specific channels with markdown messages on cancellations.
3.14. Shopify
- Feature/Setting: Use Shopify Flow automation to alert customers (for online class sales) of changes/cancellations.
3.15. Salesforce
- Feature/Setting: Automate via Process Builder or Flow Automation to notify contacts linked to the class/events object.
3.16. HubSpot
- Feature/Setting: Automate workflow action for notification email/SMS to list segments.
3.17. Zapier
- Feature/Setting: Automate multi-platform notifications using triggers from Google Sheets or other scheduling tools.
3.18. Google Classroom
- Feature/Setting: Automate notifications/bulletin to stream on class cancellation.
3.19. Outlook (Microsoft Graph API)
- Feature/Setting: Automate calendar event updates and mass notifications to all attendees.
3.20. Firebase Cloud Messaging
- Feature/Setting: Automate push notification to student/parent mobile apps on event trigger.

Benefits

4.1. Automates timely delivery, reduces manual outreach, and enhances class management efficiency.
4.2. Ensures students/guardians/staff receive automated alerts via preferred channels, minimizing no-shows and confusion.
4.3. Supports audit trails and empowers future automator flows, such as rescheduling or attendance reimbursement.
4.4. Scales with the school’s user base, enabling automatable multi-platform communication for any event scenario.