Messages & notices

Profile → Messages lists your teachers. Open one and type. Only you, that teacher and the school office can see the chat.

Teachers appear when the school has them on your class timetable or staff record. Ask the office to add them.

Open Messages, search for the student and write. The student and parent get it in their app and a push notification. The school office can read these chats, so keep them to school matters.

The Notice board tab shows announcements for your class and the whole school. Old notices disappear when their date ends.

Open Notifications and tap “Turn on”, or allow notifications for IDPS Students in your phone’s settings. You get an alert for school notices, new homework and teacher messages.

Profile → Academic calendar shows holidays and school events for your class.

Things waiting on the office right now, checked every 5 minutes: staff leave requests to approve, cheques waiting to clear or bounced, stock at its reorder level, purchase orders not yet received, overdue library books and unpaid library fines. Each card opens the page where you fix it.

An alert comes back as unread when what it counts changes — for example a new leave request arrives. That is on purpose.

Read / unread is remembered in each browser separately.

Whoever you choose: everyone, parents / students, one class, teachers or staff. It shows in their app's notice board.

Yes — set a start date to schedule it and a “show until” date. Scheduled and expired announcements are hidden in the apps.

No. This page is read-only — you can read every teacher ↔ student / parent conversation, search it and export a transcript, but only teachers and parents can reply in their apps.

From the teacher app and the student / parent app. A chat appears as soon as the first message is sent.

In-app (shows in the student / staff app, free), SMS (once an SMS provider is connected), WhatsApp (when the school's WhatsApp number is set up) and WhatsApp link (opens WhatsApp for one person — you press send).

SMS isn't connected to a provider yet, so the SMS option is switched off. The templates are ready — you can open one and prepare the message — and sending turns on once a provider is set up.

Ready-made messages for parents (fee reminder, absent today, holiday, parent-teacher meeting and more). Open the SMS templates tab, press Use template and fill in the blanks. {student}, {class} and {school} are filled in for each family.

Yes, under Communication → Parent Chats (read-only). Teachers and parents reply in their apps.