Summer 2025 Product Update

28th May 2025

We've been hard at work all Spring adding these exciting new features:

  • Dashboard > Options > Print, Email and View Teacher Schedules now has a new option on its Control Panel named "Download Booking Overview (.xlsx)" which creates a spreadsheet of the parents' evening, showing the teachers along one axis and the appointment times down the other, so that at a glance the reader can see which student is booked with which teacher at which time. Great for the person planning the parents' evening or managing the reception desk on the day.
  • Microsoft SSO for parents is now available for all schools' parent login pages.
  • New Club Booking Methodology: Clubs can now be set up to use one of two booking methodologies: "First come, first served", and a new "Parents request places" mode. The latter prevents parents booking clubs immediately - instead, they will request a place for their student(s), and later Admin users will review and approve or deny places. Confirmed places are emailed to parents immediately upon approval.
  • The "Chase Parents" page now has more tools and allows you to exclude parents who were not invited.
  • We have added the day of the week to the parent Dashboard, to make it easier to see which date parents' evenings, events and clubs take place on.
  • Schools can now add a charge code to events, clubs or wraparounds they create, which can be exported in financial reports.
  • We now show students' Leaver Dates, where known, and also flag where students/parents were created manually by the Admin. This all helps with managing Leavers and end-of-year data cleanses.
  • "Remember this device for 30 days" setting added to the multi-factor authentication login process.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Teachers' appointment schedule emails now contain appointments that have been shared from a different teacher's schedule.
    • Video meetings now say the parents' names, not "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" as it did formerly.
    • The error messages on the Create Parents' Evening page have been made clearer.
    • Small improvement to the parent import priority/logic for schools using Wonde.
    • User-defined fields and secondary IDs can now be imported from Wonde, for financial reports typically.
    • Bug on two parent invite pages which stopped you being able to select to send to just Main Contacts easily has been fixed.
    • Change of logic to the limit for how many Clubs a student can be signed up to feature, so that this is not impacted by Wraparound bookings.