Communication for Families

Here’s what you can do with ParentSquare:

• Receive messages from the school via email, text or app notification 

• Choose to receive information as it comes or all at once with a daily digest at 6 p.m. 

• Communicate in your preferred language

• Comment on school postings to engage with your school community

• Direct message teachers, staff and other parents

• Participate in group messages

• Sign up for parent-teacher conferences

• Send payments, sign forms & permission slips, receive report cards, sign up to volunteer and more all from your desktop or mobile device

Questions? Email communications@isd709.org.

At Denfeld, parents/guardians can also use ParentsSquare to request a student absence to be excused and complete other forms.

Infinite Campus Parent Portal

Infinite Campus is our student information system which houses important information for each of students including grades, attendance, and contact information. The Infinite Campus Parent Portal allows guardians to access their student and household information, including grades, attendance, address, and guardian phone numbers and email addresses. Fees for sports and activities can be paid through the Parent Portal app as well. 

In order to set up your Infinite Campus Parent Portal account, please contact our main office to get an activation key.  Then login to https://duluthmn.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/parents/duluth.jsp.  

Canvas

Canvas is the learning management system used by Duluth Public Schools. It is a web-based program that organizes classroom materials, assignments, and other important resources needed for each class while allowing for easy tracking of deadlines and progress monitoring. Students submit assignments and teachers enter grades into Canvas. Each teacher has a Canvas page for each of their classes. 

Parents/guardians can sign up for an observer account in order to monitor their student’s progress and grade in each of their classes. This process is simple and easy and will allow you to help support your student’s academic achievement. 

1. Download the Canvas Parent app on your mobile device. 
2. Open the app and click on “Find School” 
3. Under the question, “What’s your school’s name?”, type ISD709 and then select “Go”
4. The Canvas login page will open. Select “Need a Canvas Account?”
5. Select “Parent sign up here.” 
6. Complete the parent signup information requested. You will need your student’s Pairing Code. 
   1. To find your student’s pairing code, ask your student to go to their account page.
   2. Next ask them to select Settings on the left-side menu
   3. Finally, select the “Pair With Observer” button in the lower right-hand corner
7. If you have multiple studentren using Canvas, you can add your other students under “Manage Students.” 
   1. On the Manage Students tab, click the + and add your other studentren with their pairing code(s). You will then be able to toggle between your studentren on the Manage Students tab.
8. Once you have completed the account set-up process and added your student’s pairing code, you will see all of their classes listed. You can click into any class and see what assignments are due, what is missing, their grade, and more. 
   1. You can click on each assignment to see instructions, due dates, and more. 
9. If you need to contact a teacher, click on the chat icon in the bottom right corner and a message window will pop up.

School Newsletters

Weekly Smore Newsletter

Important information is shared with families each Sunday evening in our weekly electronic Smore Newsletter. These weekly communications share helpful information for the week ahead as well as information about upcoming dates for your calendar, upcoming opportunities for students, resources that can be accessed by families, and reminders about school processes. The link to the Smore newsletter is shared with families through an all-call, email, text message, ParentSquare, and on our social media pages.