A new Comms screen asks three questions — what you want to say, who gets it, and when — and does the rest. One message goes out by app notification, WhatsApp and email, personalised with the student's name, previewed before it leaves, sent now or scheduled or set to repeat — and four messages (birthdays, fee reminders, fee thank-yous, holiday wishes) now send themselves. Alongside it: decide which Add Student fields your staff must fill, and AI question papers that cannot be released until they pass a quality check.
Talking to parents is the thing a school does most often and enjoys least — three systems, three wordings, and no honest answer to "did they actually get it?". This week that becomes one screen: write the message once, pick the classes, choose app notification, WhatsApp and email, and send it now or on a schedule that repeats. Four routine messages now send themselves entirely. And History finally answers the delivery question — per person, with the reason written against anything that did not go.
Most school software treats app notifications, WhatsApp and email as three separate chores. This week EDII stops doing that: one message, one audience, one schedule, three channels — and a history that tells you honestly who received it and why anyone did not. The old Comms screens are untouched and still there, so nothing has to change on a deadline. Around it, an Add Student form your school controls, and AI papers that have to earn their release. More next week.