New Keep in Touch (KIT) Vendor Announced
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Fairfax County Public Schools is pleased to announce that our new vendor for the Keep in Touch (KIT) notification system is Blackboard Connect (formerly NTI, Connect-ED). Blackboard Connect is an award-winning company with years of experience with K12 education systems, many as large as or larger than FCPS. The system will still be called Keep in Touch or KIT.

How do I update my Keep in Touch contact information?

Families have 2 options:

1. Fill out or update your child's emergency care information form and return it to the school.

2. Update your child's emergency care contact information via weCare@School (you must have a Parent View account). For assistance with Parent View, please contact 1-866-434-8880.

This new KIT system uses your child's student registration information.

If you are new to Fairfax County Public Schools, all you have to do is complete the emergency care information form when you register your child.

To whitelist or add KIT messages to your email "friends list".

If I don't have a child in an FCPS school and am not an employee; can I still receive KIT messages?

Many new and exciting features will now be available to all our schools to help them communicate with their families.  The new emergency notification features are the best in the nation, and emergency notification is still the primary purpose of the Keep in Touch (KIT) system. 

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) recognizes the importance of communicating with community members who may not have a direct link to a student or an employee but who would like to be kept informed about FCPS via its KIT system; therefore, the school system is asking the vendor to create a subscription portal.  Until the subscription portal is complete and tested, FCPS will continue to update its web site with the same information that it had been sending from the division level.

Fairfax County Government also now has an emergency notification system that is available to everyone: Community Emergency Alert Network (CEAN).

Employees should log in to UConnect at: http://www.fcps.edu/DHR/employees/uconnect.htm and follow log in instructions there. Once logged in, click on the “Employee” tab at the top of the page. Then, on the next page, select “My Address” to update home address and phone number and then click “My Work Contact Info” to update work phone number.  Follow the instructions on each page.  Then log out of all browsers.

Principals must attend training so that they understand their responsibilities for the system at their school and so they can experience the new features and business rules that come with this new product. Initially, principals may send 2 of their staff members to the training with their approval. Registration for training is available through MyPLT. Additional training will be available throughout the year. This also means that until someone from your school has attended training you will not be able to send messages specifically from your school. The Department of Communications and Community Outreach will send emergency message on behalf of the school division and your school.