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When a student is marked absent for the day",[431,487,488,491,492],{},[410,489,490],{},"Weekly grades published",". When an academic week's marks are released to a class. See\n",[466,493,494],{"href":391},"Weekly grades",[423,496,498],{"id":497},"where-a-channel-is-not-offered","Where a channel is not offered",[406,500,501,502,505],{},"A tick box the platform cannot act on is greyed out, with the reason beside the matrix. Today that is\none box: ",[410,503,504],{},"weekly grades are not sent over WhatsApp",". Families are told in the app, by push and by\nemail instead.",[406,507,508],{},"This one is a deliberate choice rather than something still being built. A week of marks goes to every\nfamily in the class, and a school marking weekly publishes up to fifteen weeks a term, against three\nor four fee notices in the same period. Sent over WhatsApp it would become far the largest line on\nyour allowance, and it would be spent on the notification that carries the least: the message names\nthe week and the class, never the marks themselves, so it can only ever say \"sign in to read this\".\nThe app push already does that, free, and opens the right screen when it is tapped. Putting it on\nWhatsApp as well would also queue ahead of your invoices and fee reminders, which are the messages a\nfamily genuinely needs to receive the day they are sent.",[510,511,516],"screenshot",{"alt":512,"height":513,"src":514,"width":515},"The last two rows of the notification channel matrix. Attendance alert has all three boxes ticked; weekly grades published, described as the most frequent notice the platform sends, has email and app push ticked and its WhatsApp box greyed out and empty, with a line under the table saying weekly grades are not sent over WhatsApp because a week of marks goes to every family up to fifteen times a term and would use up the allowance ahead of invoices and fee reminders",650,"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnotifications\u002Fweekly-grades-whatsapp.png",1156,[406,517,518],{},"The greyed box on the weekly grades row, with its reason under the table.",[406,520,521],{},"The point of greying it out rather than accepting it is that a preference nothing acts on is worse\nthan one that is missing: it tells you the family was messaged.",[406,523,524],{},"It is shown greyed out rather than hidden, on the web and on the phone alike, so an admin looking for\nWhatsApp finds it and reads why instead of concluding one of the two apps offers less than the other.",[423,526,528],{"id":527},"setting-the-channels-from-the-phone","Setting the channels from the phone",[406,530,531,534],{},[410,532,533],{},"Settings → Notifications"," in the mobile app carries the same list of notifications as the web\nmatrix, one row each with an Email, WhatsApp and App push chip, saved in one press. It is the same\nsetting, so a change made on either shows up on the other.",[423,536,538],{"id":537},"weekly-digest-opt-out","Weekly digest & opt-out",[406,540,541,542,545,546,549],{},"Every Sunday evening, each parent receives a single ",[410,543,544],{},"weekly digest"," summarising every linked child's\nattendance, recent grades and fee position. Parents who'd rather not receive it can turn it off\nthemselves from their portal's digest preferences, so an admin never has to manage this per parent. A\nstudent with ",[410,547,548],{},"no digest-eligible parent"," (none linked, or their only parents have opted out) still\ngets a one-child digest of their own, addressed to the guardian contact on file, or to the student\ndirectly if there is not one. Nobody falls through the gap. The digest honours the same school-wide\ntoggle as the other notifications.",[406,551,552,555],{},[410,553,554],{},"The digest also lands in the notification bell",", so a parent who deleted the email, or whose school\nsends the digest by WhatsApp only, can still find it. The bell entry names the children it covers and\nopens straight onto that child's page, or the dashboard listing them where there is more than one. It\nis a signpost rather than a second copy of the summary: the figures stay in the digest itself.",[406,557,558,561],{},[410,559,560],{},"Nothing goes out over a break."," Before sending, the digest checks your Academic Calendar for the\nweek just ended, and a week with no teaching day in it produces no digest at all. Every figure in one\nof those would be last week's: no register was marked, no grade entered, and the fee position is\nunchanged. Parents who receive four identical summaries over a holiday stop opening the one that\nfollows it. A single teaching day in the week is enough for the digest to send as normal.",[406,563,564,567],{},[410,565,566],{},"Its links go where the email was about."," A parent with one child at your school lands on that\nchild's page; a parent with several lands on their dashboard, and each child's section in the email\ncarries its own link. Nobody is dropped on a front page and left to find their way back to what they\nhave just read. Signing in is not skipped, only remembered: a parent who is already signed in goes\nstraight there, and one who is not is taken there once they have.",[423,569,571],{"id":570},"choosing-channels","Choosing channels",[406,573,574,575,578,579,582,583,586],{},"Each notification type has an ",[410,576,577],{},"Email",", ",[410,580,581],{},"WhatsApp"," and ",[410,584,585],{},"App push"," tick box. Tick any\ncombination, or none at all to turn that notification off entirely. Every notification defaults to\nall three, since every plan, including Free, includes a WhatsApp allowance.",[406,588,589,592,593,582,595,597],{},[410,590,591],{},"A correction is its own row, not a share of the thing it corrects."," Cancelling an invoice and\nrefunding a payment are separate lines from ",[444,594,435],{},[444,596,451],{},", so a school that\nsettles refunds with a call from the bursary can silence the refund notice without silencing its\nreceipts. Whether a family is told at all is still decided per action as you cancel or refund, this\ndecides how they are told when you say yes.",[406,599,600],{},"The in-app notification centre is not one of the tick boxes: it is always on, because it costs\nnothing to deliver and never leaves the platform. Turning off every channel above stops the emails,\nthe WhatsApp messages and the push notifications; the event still appears in the bell.",[423,602,604],{"id":603},"in-app-notification-centre","In-app notification centre",[406,606,607],{},"A notification bell in every portal (staff, student and parent) opens an in-app notification centre\nwith an unread count, mark as read, mark all as read and archive. Nothing there depends on an email\nor a WhatsApp message actually landing. It is populated by the same events as the other channels and\nworks the same way on web and mobile.",[423,609,611],{"id":610},"on-the-phone","On the phone",[406,613,614,615,618,619,622],{},"A parent's own record of what the school has told them is ",[410,616,617],{},"More → Messaging"," in the\n",[466,620,621],{"href":230},"mobile app",", listed newest first: bulk announcements alongside every automated\nnotice, so an invoice, a receipt, an attendance alert, a published exam timetable, a weekly digest\nand a letter from the office are one feed rather than several.",[406,624,625,626,629,630,633],{},"An announcement appears ",[410,627,628],{},"once",", whatever it was sent on. A message sent by both email and WhatsApp\nis one entry here, not two, because which pipe it came down is the school's business and not the\nreader's. Where a school can see the per-channel breakdown of a send is its own\n",[466,631,632],{"href":224},"Messaging"," history.",[510,635,641],{"alt":636,"height":637,"src":638,"width":639,":phone":640},"The 1410SMS Android app Notices screen for a parent: a list of notices newest first, each with a title, the opening of its body and how long ago it arrived, running from Outstanding fees for this term two days ago through a PTA meeting, a published exam timetable, a weekly digest, a class project brief, a resumption date and a new invoice",1600,"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnotifications\u002Fmobile.png",720,"true",[406,642,643],{},"A parent's Notices feed: announcements and automated notices in one list, newest first.",[645,646,649],"callout",{"title":647,"tone":648},"WhatsApp delivery","note",[406,650,651,652,655],{},"WhatsApp delivery uses approved message templates and your plan's per-term WhatsApp allowance. Your\nallowance is only charged for messages that are ",[410,653,654],{},"successfully sent",". Every plan, including\nFree, comes with a WhatsApp allowance; higher plans carry larger allowances.",{"title":657,"searchDepth":658,"depth":658,"links":659},"",3,[660,662,663,664,665,666,667],{"id":425,"depth":661,"text":426},2,{"id":497,"depth":661,"text":498},{"id":527,"depth":661,"text":528},{"id":537,"depth":661,"text":538},{"id":570,"depth":661,"text":571},{"id":603,"depth":661,"text":604},{"id":610,"depth":661,"text":611},false,"md",{},true,null,{"src":674,"alt":675,"width":676,"height":677,"caption":678},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnotifications\u002Fchannels.png","The Communication settings pane showing the top of the notification channel matrix: an Email, WhatsApp and App push column, each with a tick box in its header that sets the whole column, and a row per notification starting with invoice issued and invoice cancelled",1832,1138,"Tick any combination per notification, or none at all to turn that notification off entirely. 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