Looking for carpool partners?

Don’t know who lives in your neighborhood? Menlo makes it easy to connect with fellow commuters.

To help reduce our community’s carbon footprint and ensure we meet our neighborhood traffic goals, we hope you will join with others to carpool to and from school. To help families find carpools, our technology department is launching a new carpool feature on Knightbook. We’ve added a carpool map feature to help parents locate Menlo families who live near them. Here’s how this new feature works:

 Using the Map to Find Carpool Partners

• To begin, open the Knightbook and click the map icon  in the top-right corner of the navigation.
• The map will initially display all students with circles representing the number of Menlo students in an area and colors corresponding to their various grade levels. Multi-colored circles indicate multiple students from the same family. Middle school grades are represented in yellow tones, and high school grades are represented in blue tones.
• Zoom into a specific area to view individual students in that area.
• To center the map around your home address, click the home icon . The map will then show nearby Menlo families.
• Click on any circle to see the Knightbook view of the student(s) at that address.

 Narrowing Your Search

• You can also narrow your search by clicking a specific grade level at the bottom of the map, and you can select multiple grades at one time.
• To close the filter, click the “X” in the grade navigation menu.

Arranging a Carpool

• To arrange a carpool, click the circle to view the student’s Knightbook page. Then select the car icon  to arrange a carpool. This opens a window with a pre-written email to request a carpool, which will be sent to both parents. 
• Add fortress.menloschool.org to your contacts to ensure emails reach your inbox instead of spam.
• Once the email is sent via Knightbook (through Fortress), parents can continue emailing through their regular email address after receiving a response.

Privacy Note: The carpool map is protected behind the Okta log-in via Knightbook to safeguard family information. Only parents can access the map, not students, ensuring secure carpool arrangements. This feature does not provide any new personal information; it simply makes existing information more accessible and user-friendly.