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Overview Data Setup and Data Logs are now available in your Edlio dashboard. You can connect your student information system (SIS) on your own and check what each sync brought in.

Your data connection is now in your hands. Before, connecting your SIS meant waiting on our team, and sync results were spread across several pages. Now you can set it up yourself and see results in one place.

What's new

• Data Setup: Connect PowerSchool, Aeries, Skyward, Veracross, and other systems step by step. No direct connection? Use CSV File Import Over SFTP instead.
• Manage page: Run a sync now, pause syncing, edit settings, or disconnect.
• Data Logs: See the errors and warnings from each sync, with a plain explanation of each one.
• History and export: Compare past runs and download errors as a CSV file.

How it works

1. Go to Data Setup and click New Integration.
2. Choose your SIS or file import and follow the steps.
3. Click Connect. Your first sync runs tonight.
4. Check Data Logs afterward. To fix an error, update the record in your SIS and the next sync picks it up.

NOTE - If you already have an existing SIS sync or SFTP set up, you don't need to take any action. All existing syncs will be unaffected and should appear in the new Data Setup Page, and Data Logs will begin showing information from them.

Perfect for

• Finding out why someone didn't come through
• Seeing whether sync errors are going down over time

Overview You now have more control over how hall passes work at your school! Lock expiry times to specific reasons and set a default reason, so students can't extend their time or pick an unclear reason to bypass limits.

Why this matters Some schools found students selecting a vague reason (like "Other") to give themselves more time out of class, or adjusting the expiry time to stay out longer than intended. These new settings close both gaps.

What's new

Lock the expiry time to a reason: For any hall pass reason, you can now lock the expiry time so it can't be changed when that reason is selected. For example, lock "Restroom" to 5 minutes so students can't extend it.

Set a default reason: Choose one reason to be the default option that's pre-selected wherever a hall pass is created, in the Dashboard and in the mobile app. This makes it easy to steer students toward your most common, well-defined reason instead of an open-ended one.

"Other" is no longer built in: Previously, every school had a hardcoded "Other" option that couldn't be removed. Now "Other" is just a standard reason added when your site is set up, so you're free to edit, lock, or remove it just like any other reason.

How to set it up

1. Go to your Hall Pass reason settings
2. For any reason, toggle the expiry time lock if you want to prevent changes
3. Mark your preferred reason as default (only one can be active at a time)

Perfect for schools that want to

• Prevent students from extending pass durations beyond what's intended
• Steer students toward clear, specific reasons instead of vague ones
• Fully customize their reason list, including removing "Other" if it's not needed

This gives you tighter, more predictable control over hall pass usage without adding complexity to how passes are created.

Overview Multi-column page layouts now support a new top zone for single-column content, giving you a way to add a banner, intro, or full-width block above your columns!

More flexibility for multi-column pages If you use a 25/75, 75/25, 50/50, or 33/33/33 layout, you can now add content in a new zone that spans the full width, sitting right below your page title and above your columns.

How it works

• Open a page using one of the supported multi-column layouts
• You'll see a new zone above your columns, below the title
• Add any of the same page blocks you'd normally use in your other columns

Perfect for

• Adding an introductory paragraph before diving into multi-column content
• Featuring a banner or announcement above your column layout
• Highlighting a call-to-action that spans the full width of the page

This zone will be automatically available on your existing pages using these layouts, so there's nothing to set up.

Overview Messages, Auto Notices, Email & Phone Activity, and Settings all have an updated, modernized interface! Same familiar tools, cleaner experience.

The same features you rely on, refreshed Everything you use today in Mass Communications, sending messages, managing auto notices, reviewing email and phone activity, and configuring settings, works exactly as it did before. We've simply given these pages a more modern, consistent interface as part of our ongoing platform updates.

A few nice improvements along the way

• Archive and restore messages: Clean up your message list by archiving ones you no longer need, and bring them back anytime
• Managed message templates: Message templates are now admin managed and are usable by everyone

Nothing to set up All your existing messages, auto notices, templates, and settings carried over automatically. There's nothing you need to do to prepare for or adjust to this update.

This is part of our continued work modernizing the Edlio platform experience across the dashboard.

Overview You can now choose from three layout styles for both your News and Events page blocks, giving you more flexibility to match your site's design!

New settings, right on the block Both the News and Events page blocks now have a settings (gear) button. Click it to open layout options where you can show or hide the block title and choose from three different layout styles.

News block layouts

• Layout 1 (default): The classic layout you're used to today
• Layout 2: A narrower layout showing up to 2 items per row
• Layout 3: Image on top, with title and description below, showing up to 3 items per row

Events block layouts

• Layout 1 (default): The classic layout you're used to today
• Layout 2: Displays the event date in a bold square box, along with the event title, time, and location, showing up to 3 items per row
• Layout 3: Similar to Layout 2, but with event details stacked vertically instead of side by side

How to use it Open the News or Events page block on any page, click the new settings icon, and choose the layout and title visibility that works best for your site.

Perfect for

• Schools wanting a more compact news feed with smaller items per row
• Sites that prefer image-forward news presentation
• Calendars and event pages that need date information to stand out visually
• Any site looking to freshen up how news and events content appears

This gives you more ways to present news and events content so you can match your site's overall look and feel.

Overview Adding individual recipients to a mass communication just got easier! Search now finds parents by their student's name, shows you more detail about each person, and lets you upload a whole list of recipients at once.

Find the right person, faster When you need to add specific people to a message, searching used to give you just a name and a photo - which made it hard to tell people apart or find a parent when you only knew their child's name. Now the search works the way you actually think.

Search by student name and find their parents: Type a student's name and your results will now include both the student and that student's parents. No more needing to know a parent's exact name to reach them.

See who you're adding: Each search result now shows:

• The person's role so you know exactly who they are
• Their related student if the person is a parent, so you can confirm you've got the right family

Add a whole list at once Already have a list of recipients exported from another system? Instead of searching for each person one by one, you can now upload a spreadsheet directly from the people search card. If you're uploading student IDs, you can even choose to include the related parents automatically.

How to use it

• Search: Start typing a name (student or otherwise) and pick from the detailed results
• Bulk upload: Open the people search card, choose the upload option, and add your spreadsheet of recipients

Perfect for

• Reaching a family when you only know the student's name
• Telling people apart in a long list of similar names
• Adding a large ad-hoc group from a list exported from your SIS or another system
• Quickly pulling in parents of a specific set of students

This makes building a one-off recipient list quicker and more accurate, whether you're adding a couple of people or a few hundred.

Overview The Call button in your app toolbar can now hold up to 5 phone numbers! Parents tap once and pick the number they need, perfect for schools with multiple departments or districts covering several schools in one app.

One button, the right number Until now, a Call button in your app toolbar could only dial a single phone number. But many schools have more than one number parents might need - a front office, an attendance line, a transportation department - and single-app districts often need to list numbers for different schools. Now one Call button can hold them all.

How it works

Adding numbers: In the Toolbar builder, you can add up to 5 phone numbers to your Call button. Give each one a description (like "Front Office" or "Attendance Line") so parents know exactly who they're reaching.

What parents see:

• One number: Tapping the Call button dials it immediately, just like before
• Multiple numbers: Tapping the button opens a popup listing each number with its description. Parents tap the one they want, and the call starts. Tapping outside the popup closes it.

Setting it up

1. Open your App Toolbar builder
2. Edit or add a Call button
3. Add your phone numbers (up to 5), each with an optional description
4. Save your toolbar

Perfect for

• Schools with multiple departments: Offer the front office, attendance, and transportation lines in one place
• Single-app districts: Provide phone numbers for each school in the district
• Schools with separate language lines: List numbers for different language support

Your existing Call buttons still work If you already have a Call button set up, nothing changes. It automatically becomes a single-number entry and behaves exactly as it did before. You can add more numbers anytime you like.

This gives parents a faster, clearer way to reach the right person at your school, all from a single tap in your app.

Overview Building a form field with a long list of options just got a lot faster! You can now paste or edit all your options at once instead of adding them one at a time.

No more clicking "Add Option" over and over Adding a handful of choices to a form field has always been simple. But if you needed a dropdown with every bus route, a checklist of 100 clubs, or a long list of course options, adding them one at a time was slow and tedious. Bulk Edit solves that.

How it works

1. Open any option-list field: Checkboxes, Multiple Choice, Dropdown Menu, or Table
2. Click Bulk Edit: You'll find it right next to the usual "Add Option" controls
3. Paste your list: Enter your options in the text box, one per line. The box opens already filled with any options you've added so far, so you can edit them in place
4. Confirm: Your options appear in the field instantly

Works on all option-list fields

• Multiple Choice
• Checkboxes
• Dropdown Menus
• Table rows and columns

Perfect for

• Long dropdowns like bus routes, teachers, or course selections
• Club and activity sign-up checklists
• Any field where you're pasting options from a spreadsheet or existing document
• Quickly cleaning up or reordering a large set of existing options

This makes building and maintaining option-heavy forms dramatically faster, especially when you already have your list ready to paste from somewhere else.

Overview Say goodbye to printing, stuffing envelopes, and hoping documents make it home! Secure Document Delivery lets you electronically send student-specific confidential documents - report cards, progress reports, attendance letters, schedules, and more - to verified parents and guardians, all from one bulk PDF upload.

The paper chase ends here Sending confidential documents home has always been expensive and unreliable. Printing and postage add up, staff spend hours preparing mailings, and there's no way to know if a document actually reached the family. Secure Document Delivery replaces that entire workflow with a tracked, verified, digital one.

Upload once. The system does the rest. Here's the workflow:

1. Create a template: Set up a reusable template with your student identifier type, who should receive documents, notification messages, and delivery channels
2. Upload your bulk PDF: Use the same PDF you already generate - one file containing all students' documents
3. Automatic splitting and matching: The system reads the student identifier on each page, splits the PDF by student, and matches each document to the right parents and guardians
4. Secure delivery: Families receive a secure access link via email and/or text message
5. Track and follow up: See exactly who opened their document and who hasn't, so you can follow up only where needed

Verified access for peace of mind Before viewing a document, parents verify their identity using the method you choose: Student ID, Date of Birth, Last Name, or Zip Code. Once verified, they can return to the document as many times as needed until the link expires on the date you set.

Built-in safeguards

• Missing contact info surfaced: Students who match but have no guardian contact information appear in a separate tab so you can handle them manually
• Template locking: Lock a template so staff can see the notification message but can't change the content or channels before sending - perfect for sensitive document types
• Separate permissions: Control who can manage templates versus who can only send deliveries using existing templates

Per-recipient tracking Your delivery reports show open status for each individual guardian with timestamps - not just whether the batch was sent. No more blanket follow-up calls; you'll know exactly which families need a nudge.

Perfect for

• Report cards and progress reports
• Attendance letters and truancy notices
• IEP and 504 notices where delivery auditability matters
• Student schedules
• Any student-specific confidential document you currently print and mail

Where to find it Head to Mass Communications > Secure Document Delivery. Admins can set up templates from the Templates page, and staff can start a new delivery anytime with the New Delivery button.

Less printing. Less postage. Less manual work. And full visibility into who got what, when.

Overview You can now select specific staff members to receive email notifications whenever a hall pass expires, so the right people stay informed about students who haven't returned.

The right people, notified automatically When a hall pass expires, it often matters to more people than just the teacher who issued it. An administrator, dean, or security staff member may need to know a student hasn't checked back in. Previously, there was no way to route these notifications to additional staff. Now you can.

How it works

1. Go to your Hall Pass settings
2. Find the new "Notify these people on expiration" option
3. Select the staff members who should be notified
4. Each selected person receives an email whenever a hall pass expires

Helpful details in every email Expiration emails include the hall pass start time and duration, so anyone reviewing these notifications has the context they need at a glance - especially useful for staff tracking patterns across many passes.

Perfect for

• Administrators who want visibility into expired passes school-wide
• Deans and security staff monitoring students out of class
• Front office teams keeping tabs on hallway activity
• Schools with accountability policies requiring follow-up on overdue passes

This setting works alongside your existing hall pass notifications, giving you full control over who stays in the loop when passes expire.