Reimagine What’s Possible this Back-to-School
The pressure on school districts has never been higher.
Families, staff, and community members expect more: faster updates, safer platforms, and communication that builds trust, not noise.
This back-to-school season, you don’t just have to meet expectations.
You can exceed them.
We're delivering a reimagined platform experience to help you do just that.
These new features, paired with our best-in-class support and strategic partnership, will help you further elevate your brand, streamline your communications, engage your families, and safely connect with every corner of your community.
Get the release round-up to share what's new with your team.
One Place for Every Message
Siloed tools, multiple inboxes, and barriers to connection make it harder to build trust. Our new Unified Messaging experience changes that. Now, every staff member—from teachers and principals to nurses and coaches can easily message students and families in one shared inbox.
With Unified Messaging you can:
Unify all communications to one inbox, reducing app fatigue and confusion
Expand communication beyond the classroom, to coaches, counselors and more
Use reactions, threads, upload videos, and more to drive engagement
→ This feature will be rolled out to existing Rooms clients in batches. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
Reach Every Family by Text
Some families are harder to reach than others. But now, with Text Messaging for Rooms you can reach every family, even if they haven’t logged in or downloaded your app. Messages and Announcements are automatically delivered by text with a secure link to view and reply.
With Rooms SMS Notifications, you can:
Increase engagement with no additional work on staff
Reach every family and ensure no one misses a message
Keep priority alerts distinct from daily updates
→ This feature will be rolled out to existing Rooms clients in batches. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
Safer Messaging, Automatically
Don’t just track conversations and wait for a risk, prevent them! Our new AI-Powered Proactive Message Moderation scans every message and image in real time, flagging harmful content before it can cause a problem.
AI-Powered Moderation helps you:
Reduce the burden on administrators to actively monitor messaging
Ensure safer, more compliant communication
Prevent issues before they escalate
→ This feature will be rolled out to existing Rooms clients through the end of the year. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
Newsletters Built for Collaboration
When newsletters are hard to build, they are inconsistently designed, and may not even get sent at all. The new Collaborative Newsletter Builder makes it easy for anyone in your district to create on-brand, professional emails that are aligned to your brand, every time.
Collaborative Newsletter Builder allows you to:
Increase consistency of communication across your district
Empower more staff to share stories with your community
Save time with real-time collaboration, permissions, and templates
→ This feature will be rolled out to existing Engage clients beginning mid to late September. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
Data Accuracy at Scale, Automatically
Your SIS should stay as the single source of truth for all contact data. Our new Identity Management Tools ensure it stays that way by automatically detecting sync errors, resolving conflicts, and flagging issues for review.
With Identity Management, you can:
Eliminate repetitive and manual fixes
Keep all contact info accurate proactively
Improve deliverability across all platforms
→ This feature will be rolled out to existing clients in small batches. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
A Fully Branded Experience, Everywhere
Every interaction with your district should build trust and reflect your brand. The new Fully Branded Experience ensures a consistent look and feel across your website, app, emails, and more. Families can now log in to Rooms directly from your site—creating a seamless, branded experience from start to finish.
A Fully Branded Experience will:
Reinforce brand recognition and build trust
Keep your community connected to you, not a vendor
Deliver one cohesive experience from pre-k to graduation for staff and families
→ This feature will be rolled out to existing clients in small batches beginning in September. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
Smarter File Management, Built for Ease
Managing files shouldn’t feel like a scavenger hunt. Our upgraded File Management system makes it easy to organize, publish, and share documents, faster and with less friction. Track changes, perform bulk actions, and share folders with public links, all while keeping your content accessible.
These File Management tools allow you to:
Perform bulk actions, like moving files, publishing or unpublishing, in one click
Share more by copying public links to published files
Work smarter with document history, preview options, and better search results
→ These updates will be rolled out to existing clients in small batches through September. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
CMS Tools that Make Maintenance Easy
Managing your district’s digital presence should be easy, not time consuming. Two new CMS features, Copy Home Page Components and Add Document Links streamline maintenance and update efforts across all of your sites.
These CMS updates let you:
Apply changes globally across your district’s websites
Stay on the editor screen to upload documents and links
Reduce time spent maintaining your district’s sites
→ These features will be enabled for clients Mid-July. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
Good News that Travels Fast
Great stories deserve to be shared with your community, fast. Updates to the Email Composer and Live Feed Editor help staff create and share high-quality content more easily. Features like image resizing, formatting tools, and live previews remove common roadblocks and make every post more engaging.
These tools allow you to:
Format Live Feed posts with bold text, hyperlinks, and new layout controls
Resize images, seamlessly copy and paste, and preview emails before sending
Feel more confident in sharing engaging content consistently across channels
→ These features will be enabled for clients Mid-July. For more details, connect with your Client Success Manager.
Don’t just reimagine, make it possible.
Start the school year with the tools to rise above rising expectations.
With Apptegy, you can deliver faster updates, ensure safer communication, and engage your community—while keeping your district at the heart of it all.
Apptegy's complete communication solution makes it possible to:
Elevate your district’s brand
across every touchpoint
Optimize your strategy
for stronger engagement
Empower better communication
for stronger engagement
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