Every teacher has one
A weekly class newsletter per teacher, per kid. Specials teachers often send their own.
Smore newsletters
The Smore newsletter is twelve sections long. Sense reads all of them.
Teachers, principals and the PTA love Smore, so every week brings more of them. Forward the email to Sense, even when it is only a "view newsletter" link, and every date in it lands on your family calendar.
Inbox 8 from Smore this week
- SmoreRoom 14 News - Week of October 12
- SmorePrincipal's Corner: October
- SmorePTA Monthly Newsletter
- SmoreLibrary News: Book Fair is coming
- SmoreMusic Department Update
- SmoreCounselor's Corner
- Smore4th Grade Weekly Update
- SmoreLincoln Lions Athletics
On the family calendar
Pumpkin patch trip - Fri Oct 23 Book Fair - Oct 26-30 Science project due - Thu Oct 22The volume
Why the newsletters keep multiplying.
Smore makes a good-looking newsletter in minutes, so everyone at school makes one. Each arrives as its own email, and each is long.
The principal, the PTA, the library
Each office runs its own Smore, on its own schedule.
The dates are buried
A newsletter mixes photos, shout-outs, curriculum notes and the one line about the field trip form.
Often just a link
Many arrive as a short email with a "view newsletter" button. Reading means opening each one in a browser.
What parents try
Reading them all is not the answer either.
Read every newsletter
Ten minutes each, several a week, per kid. Most of it is lovely and none of it needs doing.
Skim for bold text
Teachers bold different things. The deadline is not always the bold part.
Screenshot the date
Then the screenshot sits in your camera roll next to the other screenshots.
How it works
You forward it. Sense keeps the dates.
Step 01
Forward the email
Verify your email address in Sense once, then forward Smore emails to share@getsense.ai. Digests and attachments included.
Step 02
Sense reads every one
It pulls out the dates, times, what to bring, and anything to sign or pay. Emails with nothing to schedule are left alone.
Step 03
It is on the calendar
Events land on your family calendar, with reminders for deadlines, so everyone sees the same plan.
Or let all of it flow in on its own
Premium lets you set up a Gmail filter that sends every one of these emails to your personal Sense address the moment it arrives. Sense reads each one, adds what has a date, and ignores the rest. How to set up auto-forwarding.
What it costs
The free plan covers 10 emails a month for the whole family, which is enough to forward the ones that matter. A busy school on auto-forward will need Premium, which is unlimited. See pricing.
A week of Smore
What lands on the calendar, and what does not.
On the family calendar
- Pumpkin patch trip - Fri Oct 23
- Book Fair - Oct 26-30
- Science project due - Thu Oct 22
Left in the inbox
- Principal's Corner: October
- PTA Monthly Newsletter
- Music Department Update
- Counselor's Corner
- Lincoln Lions Athletics
Forwarding a Smore newsletter
Forward the email as it is. If it only has a link, Sense opens the Smore page and reads the whole newsletter, including dates that only appear in images. You do not need to copy the text out first.
FAQ
Common questions.
Can Sense read a Smore newsletter that is only a link?
Yes. Sense follows the Smore link in the email and reads the full newsletter page.
How do I add Smore newsletter events to my calendar?
Forward the newsletter email to Sense. It adds each date to your family calendar, which can connect to Google Calendar.
What if the date is in an image in the newsletter?
Sense reads images too, so a date on a flyer image in the newsletter still gets picked up.
Does it work with newsletters sent through ParentSquare or SchoolMessenger?
Yes. However the newsletter reaches you, forward that email and Sense reads it.
Other school apps
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Smore is a trademark of its owner. Sense is not affiliated with or endorsed by Smore.
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