Revere Administration oversaw the construction and deployment of a new Revere app to help students and parents become familiar with upcoming events in Revere school district.

Phil King, RHS principal explained the purpose of the Revere app.

“Revere app is for communication with anybody outside or inside Revere school district. It’s merely a communication tool right now, but later on we have plans so people can simply log in and be transported to a site in which you can quickly access your information. Right now that is not activated, so it is mostly just a communication tool,” King said.

King also mentioned what features the app offers to anyone who downloads it onto his or her mobile device.

“It is mostly just a communication tool, but it also gives you updates on all events occurring in the Revere school district. It will give you information on anything news-worthy going on at Revere,” King said.

King went into further detail about what the administration of the district hopes the app will eventually become.

“The plan is to eventually move to a format which allows a student or parent to login, and access all of their information stored right here on the Revere servers. Hopefully this is accomplished sooner than later,” King said.

King explained who drove the district into creating the app.

“It [the idea for Revere app] was first brought to my attention by Superintendent [Randy] Boroff, who was having preliminary meetings with the board, where he talked about the opportunity to create this app,” King said.

Boroff elaborated on how the app came to exist.

“I recommended that an App be developed for Revere since we wanted to increase communication with our communities. I had seen other district apps and felt it would be beneficial to Revere. The app acts as a shortcut to our website. I started talking about the development of the app last school year,” Boroff said.

Boroff also spoke about who designed the app, and how long the app took to be designed.

“It took a couple of months. Schoolwires did all the formatting and design work, then we had to decide what information should be available in the menu. It was a fairly quick and easy process. I recommended using the R logo,” Boroff said.

Revere Sophomore Joey Gilroy was one of the first students to use the Revere app, and he talked about his experience using the app.

“I like how I can select which schools to include in the news feed, and that a link to progressbook is included right in the app. However, the information included in the news feed is not very relevant to what an average student would be looking for, and it seems the info is directed more towards what a parent would be looking for,” Gilroy said.

The Revere app can be downloaded for free on either the iTunes app store or the Android marketplace.