Features: Engage

Engage: keep families and staff connected

Notices, a calendar, messages, forms and interview bookings sit where families already look. Parents see their own children and only their own, so there are fewer phone calls and paper slips.

Parent portal

A parent signs in and sees a home screen for each of their children: attendance over the last 30 days, forms that need an answer, and a button to report an absence. The menu leads to notices, grades, reports and more.

Who can see itParents see only the children linked to them by the school.

The parent home screen in the demo school: a Hello message, a Report an absence button, a switch between two children, an attendance summary and a Forms to sign card. — Demo school, fictional data

Notices

Staff write a notice and pin the important ones to the top, so term dates and reminders are the first thing people read. Staff have a My inbox tab and a My notices tab for the ones they wrote.

Who can see itStaff write notices. Staff and families read them in their own Notices list.

The Notices screen as a teacher sees it in the demo school: pinned notices for Term 4 key dates and a welcome, then a recent reminder, each with a Read notice button and a New notice button. — Demo school, fictional data

School calendar

Term dates, events and excursions appear on one month calendar, and the view can be filtered by type of event. Staff with permission add events, and families open the same calendar to see what is coming.

Who can see itStaff and families both see the school calendar.

The Calendar screen of the demo school showing October with events such as Term 4 starts, school photo day, Book Fair, parent-teacher interviews and an excursion, and a filter for the type of event. — Demo school, fictional data

Messages

Conversations sit in one list with unread counts, whether they are with a family, a class announcement or a staff group. Staff start a new message from the same screen instead of using personal phones.

Who can see itOnly the people in a conversation can read it.

The Messages screen of the demo school: a list of conversations with dates, including announcements, a class message and a staff thread with an unread count, and a New message button. — Demo school, fictional data

Interview booking

A parent picks the interview day, the child and a teacher, then chooses a free time. Booked times show as taken, so there is no sign-up sheet to manage. Teachers set up their own time slots.

Who can see itParents book for their own children. Teachers see their own schedule.

The Book an interview screen as a parent sees it in the demo school: choose a day and a child, then pick a free time from the teacher’s slots, with taken times greyed out. — Demo school, fictional data

Absence notes online

A parent presses Report an absence, and the note appears with its status and any comment from the school. The same screen lists recent attendance, so families can see what was recorded.

Who can see itParents write notes for their own children. Staff see them in the Absence notes tab of Attendance.

The Attendance screen as a parent sees it in the demo school: a 30 day attendance rate, an absence note marked Accepted with a school comment, and a list of recent attendance. — Demo school, fictional data

Class story

A teacher writes a post for the class, optionally tags students, and publishes it when ready. Posts can be drafts, waiting for approval, published or hidden, and families can react to what they see.

Who can see itStaff write and publish. Families of the class read the published posts.

The Class story screen of a Year 4 class in the demo school: filters for All posts, Waiting for approval, Drafts, Published and Hidden, with a draft post and two published posts showing reactions. — Demo school, fictional data

Other feature groups

Every screen on these pages comes from a demo school with fictional people, or is labelled as a sample.