The site was created by John Boynton, a frustrated father of four who got fed up with the lack of tools available for parents and teachers when it came to the kids. He also wanted a way for all parents and teachers to communicate with one another so he launched his site.
The most important part of the service appears to be the groups feature. Parents, teacher and other people responsible for watching and managing children can either join an existing group or create one. The key is to enter your zipcode first to see if the group you need already exists or not. If it doesn't then they can establish one and invite others to join. If the group is a class room then all teachers and all of the parents of the children in the class will join. From there, everyone will be able to communicate with one another and be on the same page, literally and figuratively.
The Calendar is the central focal point to the group and the entire site for that matter. It's where all of the events and festivities are entered and schedules managed. The other elements to the group area that are very useful are the discussions area where everyone communicates, the Picture gallery where photos are shared, Wish List which gives everyone a head's up on what's needed and the Documents library which can contain important forms and other things that they can download or print.
Obviously, this group is geared for school but they can be customized for many other types of groups involving adults supervising children. Other types of group are Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, soccer teams, Little League teams, Chess clubs, and so on.
There's another area dedicated to each member's calendar of events for all of the groups they belong to. For example, if you're a parent of three children then you could have a calendar of events for each one of their classes in addition to calendars for their recreational activities such as chess club, Sax lessons, soccer, T-Ball and Ballet. That's a tremendous amount of activities to manage. Well, SchoolBuz will let you add all of those events to your calendar and provides a handy filtering system that will change the view of your master calendar to show what's going in that group. It also presents all of these scheduled events to reveal any conflicting times and dates.