What is Student Central?

Student Central is a student activities focused platform for managing the communication, organization and participation in the activities of students outside of the classroom. Find out more about Student Central.

Who uses Student Central?

Student Central is designed to be an on-line community that includes students, teachers and parents in a way that maximizes participation with the objective of assisting students to have the best, total school experience possible.

What does Student Central do?

Student Central provides:

• Communications via email and true SMS text messaging with every message fully documented and archived,
• Calendars that are personalized for each student and parent with automatic updates direct to smartphone calendars (yes, the calendar you already use will now always be current with every event in the school that is of interest to you)
• Simplified live video streaming of all meaningful events at the school plus media sharing,
• On-line elections for class officers – homecoming court – team captains, plus contests, surveys and polls,
• Discussion groups with school control,
• Community Service Hours Management where students may stay informed of service opportunities and completed hours are documented, and,
• Mobile app that even allows text messages to be sent while on field trips with full documentation to comply with district requirements.

How is the content on Student Central controlled?

Everything that is viewable on Student Central has been approved by a school authorized person with the primary responsibility allocated to teachers and coaches to approve communications, events and media for their clubs, classes and teams so that there is never a bottleneck to have items approved. Advance levels of approval are integrated to meet every school and district's requirements.

What can I do next to enroll my school in Student Central?

As a school Principal or Teacher you may enroll your school in Student Central. It only takes two minutes to create your school's presence on StudentCentral.bigteams.com. If you have any questions please see Help Docs or email us at support@bigteams.com.

Do you allow students younger than 13 to have accounts on Student Central?

Yes, students who are younger than 13 may have an account on Student Central. Even though the Federal Trade Commission has said that programs like Student Central are exempted from the COPPA regulations, Student Central wants parents to know all about Student Central and that their child has an account on Student Central. So when a student younger than 13 creates an account, the parent's email address is required before the student account is activated. The parents are sent an email informing them of the student's account. The parents are provided links in the email so they may create an account and follow their student's activities, plus a link to the Student Central Student Central policies regarding the use of user information for students younger than 13. Additionally, no ads are shown to users younger than 13.