Frequently Asked Questions

What does Schoolzine do?
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Schoolzine is a professional Email Newsletter production company for schools across Australia. We take the raw content that schools send us and create interactive email newsletters containing video, galleries of photographs, spot polls, questionnaires and text. We then send to the school database and report back with statistics.

What about parents who don’t use email?
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We produce your newsletter in a HTML version for email distribution. In addition we also provide you with a fully formatted master copy for you to print and distribute to anyone unable to access email.

Who has time to read their email newsletters?
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You can have confidence that email newsletters will reach home and not get lost along the way in a school bag. We can also provide you with reports to show what is being read in the email newsletter. Feedback from parents to Schoolzine newsletters is overwhelmingly positive. We can also give you a report of any emails that bounce so you can update contact details with parents.

How much does Schoolzine cost?
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Schools pay a small set up fee and subsidises the cost of the service on a newsletter-by-newsletter basis. Schoolzine rebates a percentage of the revenue received from sponsors.

What if parents prefer hard copy?
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We send you a printable version of the newsletter, which you have the option of providing to anyone who requires it. Parents can also print individual pages of the e-version or the whole e-newsletter if they wish.

Who can sponsor our newsletter?
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Schoolzine approaches businesses with products or services that might meet the needs of parents from your school. You have right of refusal for sponsors you deem unsuitable. Schoolzine policy is no unhealthy food, alcohol, political or gambling advertising.

What commitment do you need from the school?
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Your agreement with Schoolzine is based on a 12 month commitment. You agree to provide us with a minimum number of  newsletters (usually 20) in a year or four consecutive terms.You also agree to provide Schoolzine with content and approvals in a timely manner during that time. This enables us to fulfil our joint commitment to sponsors.

How much and what kinds of content can we include?
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There is no limit on the amount of content you can include. Your newsletter is only limited by the time your school community has available to collect and provide interesting and useful content. Schoolzine newsletters can include text, full colour photographs, video, forms, surveys, registrations and links. Schools will find that the more they include student-oriented content the more parents will want to read them.

How do you protect the privacy of information of our school and parents?
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Your information is kept in a secure segregated database on our server. It remains your intellectual property. We will never sell or use your contact details for anything other than the delivery of your school newsletter, unless you ask or instruct us to do so. 

We already produce our own school newsletter in-house — why involve Schoolzine?
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Using the Schoolzine service allows you to concentrate your time and resources on creating the content you want to communicate to parents, and save the time and resources needed to produce and distribute the newsletter. We provide the graphic design and web distribution services that take your school newsletter to a new level of quality and professionalism.

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FAQs

How much does Schoolzine cost?
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Schools pay a small set up fee and subsidises the cost of the service on a newsletter-by-newsletter basis. Schoolzine rebates a percentage of the revenue received from sponsors.