[App] Automatically Get Teacher Notifications When Students Join a Class

Overview Parents and students now automatically receive notifications from their classroom teachers' news categories without having to manually subscribe! When a student is added to a classroom, students and parents automatically start getting updates from that teacher.

No more manual subscriptions Previously, parents had to manually find and subscribe to a teacher's news categories to receive their updates. Many parents didn't realize they needed to do this and missed important classroom communications. Now this happens automatically.

How it works

When a student joins a classroom: As soon as a student is added to a classroom (whether by the school, through automatic sync from the student information system), parents are automatically subscribed to all personal news categories from every teacher in that classroom - including both the main teacher and any co-teachers.

For students too: Students are also automatically subscribed to their own teachers' news categories, so they stay informed about classroom updates directly.

Parents are still in control Even though subscriptions happen automatically, parents can still:

• Unsubscribe anytime: Parents can go to their notification settings and turn off any category
• See all subscriptions: Parents can view and manage all news category subscriptions in one place

Important to know

More notifications: Parents will likely receive more notifications than before since they will be subscribed to their children's teachers automatically.

Only for new classroom assignments: This automatic subscription only applies going forward - if a student was already in classrooms before this update, parents won’t be automatically subscribed to those existing teachers.

Re-subscription: If a parent unsubscribes from a teacher and later have another child with that same teacher, the parent will be automatically subscribed again. The system doesn't remember that they previously unsubscribed.

This update makes it much easier for parents to stay connected with their children's classroom communications without extra setup steps or technical know-how.