October 2026 Release Notes

Your app looks at home on the newest phones: the tab bar floats on glass in your school colours, with a selection chip that sizes to each label.

Search is now one tap from Home: a glass search button sits at the top right of the banner, beside the account switcher at the top left.

People can now choose Light or Dark, or follow their device, and Settings has been redesigned to be cleaner and easier to read.

A redesigned prompt shows people how a notification from your school will look before they turn notifications on.

The jobs staff do most are one tap from Home: a floating + button opens Find Student and shortcuts for the staff tools your school has.

Action cards have always helped parents see what needs doing. They now reach students and staff too, from Insights surveys for students to unmarked rolls for teachers.

The homepages your team builds in Schoolbox carry over to the app more faithfully than ever, from component order to sections that start collapsed.

Capturing learning takes seconds: staff start a Learning Moment from the + button, tag students, snap or scan the work, and share it to each student’s portfolio.

Show only the parts of Schoolbox your school uses: Grades, Upcoming Due Work and the Activity Feed can each be switched off without removing the integration.

Tapping a staff photo or email link opens a message straight away: tiles and links that point to Schoolbox mail open the app’s own composer.

Your notifications sit in one refined list, with sender photos, an unread badge, and Mark as read, one at a time or all at once.

Pushes show who sent them, with their photo, the post’s image and a preview of what it says, so families can take in school news at a glance.

Search has been redesigned: it opens from the banner, groups results as you type, and finds more than before, including rooms and yard duties.

The Clipboard experience families already use is refined. Sessions still show everything your coaches record, from the result, location, team and staff to uniform, meeting point and transport, now laid out more clearly in the new design.

Staff with access can update ID photos on the spot: search for a student or colleague, take or choose a photo, and upload it.

Staff opening a student see their attendance rates, a subject-by-subject breakdown, days missed each term and a log of their absences, with a tap through to personal information.

Three days fit on one screen, and each day opens at the start of the school day: a new 3 Day mode joins Daily, Terms and List.

Today’s timetable is on the home and lock screens without opening the app: the Calendar widget comes in small, medium and lock screen sizes, in subject colours.

Today’s classes on the wrist, with complications that put the next class, the term and week, and rolls still to mark right on the watch face.

The calendar shows the layers each person chooses, and a half-sheet shows or hides them, so everyone sees the calendars that matter to them.

A moved room or a relief teacher stands out: calendar events show teacher and room together (“SMIB @ B12”), with room changes and substitute teachers highlighted.

Synergetic attendance is colour-coded, so families can tell a true absence from a school activity at a glance. Excursions, camps and exam leave show in teal as “School activity”, next to red absences and amber late arrivals.

Route absence notification emails by campus code, year level or both, each segment with its own recipients.

Absence emails now include the student’s year level and a line naming the segment that routed them.

Parents report absences (all four types, several days at once, with attachments) and explain existing ones in a single note.

Families who don’t use the app can sign in with the school login at your school’s Inklass web address and submit an absence.

Each contact and each detail shows only to the people it’s meant for: choose which roles (staff, students, parents) see each directory and each field.

Contact categories become searchable tags in the app, and each directory sorts by order added, A to Z, or Z to A.

Families who haven’t agreed to share their details are shown as a single count instead of being listed, so nobody can see who opted out. A “Viewing for” header shows which child’s cohort you’re browsing.

Each of a child’s teachers with their photo and class, plus an Email Teachers sheet.

Class pages have a new design: a banner, the roll, attendees with photos, the lesson plan and teacher notes, resources and class news, all on one page.

Teachers can mark the roll from anywhere in the school: tap to cycle Present, Not Present and Late, starting from your school’s default status, then Save Roll.

One composer for capturing a moment: tag students, add a note, photos or scans, and share. Compass saves it as a Chronicle entry, Schoolbox as a Learning Moment.

The small jobs at the front of the room, done from a phone: pick a random student, generate teams, or set a running order.

The Chronicle digest staff rely on is now right on Home: the latest entries from across the school, plus upcoming birthdays.

The Parent Lounge Student Details page appears in the child’s Personal Information, merged with Schoolbox data where you have both, so families don’t need the web portal to check them.

Parent Lounge notifications, including reports and sickbay visits, appear in the Notifications tab once each kind is switched on in your TASS settings.

A smoother booking experience for everyone: students book their own interviews, staff see their hosting schedule, and online interviews get a Join Meeting button.

More of your community can read your news in their own language: readers can translate a post into Simplified or Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Hindi or Punjabi.

A new Craft CMS platform pulls stories from your website’s GraphQL API into the Featured News strip on Home.

Posts with several images show a collage that opens a full-screen gallery, and attachments show an icon for their file type.

The bulletin your staff keep on the school homepage now leads the priority strip at the top of the Feed for staff, so it’s the first thing they see, and opens to the full notice.

Organisation Attributes, Lingo: choose Terms or Semesters (“Semester 1 Week 3”), turn on Week Rotation for alternating A and B weeks, and rename the Backpack tab.

A tile’s audience can now target parents by their children’s role names, such as Junior Student, so a junior school notice doesn’t reach every parent. Each tile’s audience shows on the reorder list.

Home banner videos are managed per school under Dynamic Banner backgrounds, with no app release needed anymore.

Organisation Attributes, School Tone: “Minimise app playfulness” replaces playful loading and empty-state copy with neutral text, for schools that prefer a more formal voice.

Our guides have been rewritten for the people who run your app: what each feature is, where it shows, who sees it, and what you can change from your dashboard, with real screenshots throughout.

For supported configurations, someone who’s both staff and a parent gets both accounts from a single sign-in, each with its own Home and labelled in the account switcher.