Classlist - Product Updates

Get the latest on our product updates here!

December

We're sending fewer emails and saving you time

• Viewing notifications in the app? We’ll pause your email notifications
• Not reading the daily digest? We’ll swap you to weekly only

Plus, we’ve limited some types of notifications (for example, comments on ‘whole school’ posts) to help you find the most important info quickly.

You can personalise your notifications settings further in your profile. Choose from a wide range of options.

November

Introducing our NEW SignUp tool!

Use our new SignUp Lists together with the Classlist Events tool to sell tickets, promote your event and organise volunteers in minutes all on one app.

Add extra event owners to your community event and you’ll be able to create and manage your event and SignUp Lists on Classlist collaboratively with your PTA team too.

How do SignUp Lists work?

• SignUp Lists are online task lists you create and share on Classlist to let parents know how they can help your PTA!
• Add individual tasks or create multiple time slots on a particular day
• Parents sign up with the click of a button within the app and get an automatic reminder the day before

How do I create a SignUp List?
Go to Community Events (on the green admin side), create an event or select an existing one, click the 'Add new SignUp' button. PTAs are already using them to help organise their Christmas events on Classlist.

SignUp lists aren’t just for events

We’ve designed them to be flexible enough so a class rep or member of school staff can use them to schedule parents for the class reading rota, find parent helpers for school trips and even easily allocate timeslots for parents’ evening. Saving your school and class reps valuable admin time and helping teachers get much-needed support.

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Community Events get an upgrade

In our latest release, we’ve redesigned the whole Community Events feature so you can use it to quickly collect RSVPs for simple events such as your coffee morning or add on our advanced features to supercharge your larger events.

We’ve got new functionality too (with a volunteer sign up tool coming soon!)

• Now add ‘event owners’ to your Community Events so you can organise them as a team!
• Ask multiple questions when you add tickets to quickly collate important info
• Track RSVPs & ticket sales, send reminders and download lists in the new ‘Manage Events’ section

Don’t forget you can now make your events open to the public. Select ‘public event’ and share your event link — perfect for promoting your Christmas fair to the wider community!

October

Control your notifications settings more easily

New ‘select all’ options and separate pages where you choose your push and email notifications preferences  make it easier to control your notifications

Improved email unsubscribe links

Now you can adjust your email preferences directly from the unsubscribe link on our emails without logging in

Get to your profile area quicker

We’ve added a new ‘Edit and view my profile’ link next to your profile picture

Posting to a group just got easier

In this release, we've stripped back the design so it's really clear to see the group you’re posting to

Private events are now on your Feed

When you’re invited to a private event, now you’ll see this information on your Activity Feed too. It’s part of our work to make your Feed a place you can see and filter all the info relevant to you.

More sophisticated linking of family members to children - designed for all families

We’ve improved how we link parents and family members to a child to make it clearer who’s who.

Edit your profile directly

Now you can directly edit your profile page so it’s easier to see what info you’re sharing with other parents. We’ve separated out your account details, privacy and notification settings.

Helping parents to sign up

We’re helping you grow your school’s Classlist community by giving Admins a bit more info so they can remind new parents to join up.

September

Use Classlist to sell your tickets to the public

Now you can choose to make tickets to your event available to the public. Simply choose the public event option when you create your event and share the link to the event. It's perfect for wider community events such as fireworks night. Members of the public can purchase tickets to your event and will receive your event updates. Use it to save your PTA time and raise even more money for your school from your key community events this year.

See info about community events on the Feed

You'll now be notified of new community and school events by posts in your activity feed. This continues our work to make the Feed a single place you can see and filter all the info relevant to you.

More UX improvements

We're continuing to make UX improvements, this time posts in the feed, your Groups page, and to the Marketplace.

August

Add attachments to all types of messages 

In addition to Announcements, you can now add attachments to all types of messages including posts on your Groups.

Class reps have told us that this feature will help them share useful information really easily such as this week's homework sheet!

Announcements look better on mobile

We've taken some time to make your Announcements look all neat and tidy on mobile. So, now you can use the editing tool in Announcements to create a great looking newsletter that parents can read easily on their phone.

Improvements to make it easier to find the info you want

Now you can filter the Activity Feed to see posts from a particular class, group or key announcements. You choose what's important to catch up on.

We've also added notifications to the bottom menu so you can check your notifications quickly.

Find the create button on the top right

Now in the app the create button can always be found on the top right along, with other improvements to give you a better experience navigating the app.

July

Class list and parent profile pages redesigned

The all new class list brings you to the heart of your school community. Now it's even easier to

• See who’s who at your school 
• View parents' profiles for your class and year
• Find families nearby on the parent map

June

New announcement tools
By popular demand, now when you create an announcement you’ll be able to use our new editing tools to style and add images to it. Try it out!

More intuitive notifications
Now the app will group notifications of likes and comments together when they relate to the same post. It will also automatically mark the notification of a new post as read if you click on the post. A better experience for everyone using the app!

New downloadable QR code flyer
We've also added a new way to sign up parents quickly if it's tricky gathering emails. Download a printable flyer from the invite page on the admin side. Parents simply scan the QR code to be automatically approved.

We still recommend gathering parents' emails if you can because as soon as you invite parents from the admin side by email they'll start getting announcements and event info to their inbox.

Parents are now automatically reminded about events
To help you remember to buy tickets, RSVP and come along to events, we’ve introduced automatic event reminders. You’ll get your first reminder seven days before an event and a second one the day before. PTAs, why not add all your events to Classlist now so parents will get auto reminders for them?

Introducing email verification
We know parents value how Classlist is safe and secure. Now we’ve made the app even more secure. New parents signing up are required to verify their email. It’s easy to do, they just check their inbox for our email and click on the verification link.

May

A new daily digest
Designed to help you cut through the noise and catch up on what matters most to you, in one hit, on the day it happens.
 - it filters so you only see new posts & comments on your groups
 - it separates Marketplace posts from other posts
 - it introduces new parents joining
So, you don’t have to be constantly switched on to a constant feed of notifications, if you prefer not to be.

Personalised notifications
We’ve also set up some new, neat ways to automatically optimise your notifications based on how you use Classlist - so you don’t have to.

March

NEW Stripe payments making it easy for parents to buy tickets to events
 - Parents can now buy tickets quicker by just entering their card details directly and with a *much* better experience on mobile.
- Stripe's lower standard fees are more cost effective meaning your PTA doesn't have to worry about applying for charitable status.
- Selling tickets on Classlist saves your PTA lots of time & effort!