Yes, you can. If your school intends to use School Signals for school-wide communication, internal staff or teacher communication, or PTO/PTA communication, not adding or importing any student data is perfectly valid. With less data to check and manage, onboarding can also be faster.
Here’s What to Expect
When creating posts, you’ll select school-wide, staff-only or a group-specific audience (grade-level and classroom options won’t appear).
Grade-level posting and the Classrooms feature won’t be available without student data.
You can use the Groups feature to create your own audience lists for communication.
You cannot add students to Clubs & Programs to automatically include their parents as members.
Online form's specialized field to select student name (associated to a parent account) won't be displayed in the published form.
Parents can self-register without entering student names.
We remove all student-related fields from your admin view.
Configuring Your School Settings
As a School Admin, or Billing Admin, go to your school's Dashboard page, and click School Settings. For the question about Student Management, select Disabled.
Parent Registration Options
On the same page, select how you want to handle parent registrations:
Automatic approval: Parents can create an account instantly if they register using a valid email address. No manual review is required.
Note: This option is available only for schools that have student management disabled.Manual approval: Each parent registration request must be reviewed and approved by an admin before access is granted.
We recommend choosing manual approval to maintain control over who joins your school’s network.
Our team can configure these settings for you. You don't have to do it all. 🙂