Spring Release Round-Up: What’s New at Apptegy
This season, it’s not only time that’s moving forward.
Like the well known concept of “Spring Forward”, our most recent release is dedicated to moving your digital presence forward.
This Spring, the targeted updates are designed to:
→ Give you more website control
→ Offer more inclusive communication
→ Provide more consistency across user experiences
Elevate your website management with even more control.
Creating a website that feels like your district, and not a vendor template, should be easy and straightforward. Unlike other platforms, Apptegy puts your brand first, ensuring that every page, every message, and every update reflects your district—not a third-party vendor. Our latest enhancements provide more control and automation to streamline workflows, save time, and prevent errors—without requiring technical expertise.
New Page Builder Tools
Design your own branded and unique website with new, easy-to-use Page Builder tools that give you more design flexibility, without requiring coding experience.
These tools:
Make the drag and drop experience more intuitive
Allow for new nested components, and background images
Provide new border radius adjustments
Add anchor tags to your content for easy linking.
Scheduling Tool
Keep your website content always up-to-date and automate when pages publish and unpublish with new scheduling tools.
This new tool allows you to:
Set specific dates and times for a website page to publish
Automatically unpublish a page on a designated date and time
View activity log and publish changes for each page
Sidebar Navigation Updates
Enhance the reader experience with an updated sidebar navigation that automatically links to the right subpage, reducing website errors and streamlining manual maintenance.
Use the Sidebar Navigation to:
Create automatically updated page links to enhance the user experience
Prevent broken links on navigation menus
Keep your site user-friendly
Shared Components
Create reusable elements, like headers and banners, to be used across your organization for a faster, more collaborative site build.
With Shared Components you can:
Build an element once, and use across all organization pages
Share elements to be used across your organization and pages
Make updates that are automatically reflected everywhere a component is used
Custom CSS Enhancements
Take full control of your website design with custom code blocks now available for global and component-specific styles.
Custom CSS Enhancements:
Give advanced users the flexibility and freedom to design their websites
Are optional and do not compromise the ease of use for all users
Send translated Alerts on the go for even more inclusive communication.
Reaching every family in their preferred language is crucial. And, being able to send these alerts while on the go, is also important.
Send inclusive communication and alerts, wherever you are with new translated alert functionality in Thrillshare Mobile. This update is more than just providing translation, it’s about connection – ensuring communication barriers are removed so connections are easier and more inclusive.
Thrillshare Mobile Alert Translation
Send important updates to all families in their preferred language, even if you’re away from your desk.
Now in Thrillshare Mobile, you can:
Send translated SMS, calls, and emails
Use the same translation tools as available on Thrillshare web
Experience the same login process for even more consistency.
Redirecting all web users to login through thrillshare.com, including guardians and students, marks the first step in offering a more consistent and branded login experience.
It’s a small change that makes a big difference in offering a more intuitive and user-friendly experience, regardless of user-type or role.
Unified Login Experience
Give all Rooms users, guardians, staff, and students, the same login experience through thrillshare.com.
This update will:
Redirect users from edurooms.com to thrillshare.com
Standardize the login experience across user types
Be the foundation for future innovations towards a fully branded login experience
Stay tuned for even more ahead.
We’re just getting started! This summer, we’re launching:
New messaging capabilities for all staff members. Teachers, coaches, nurses, counselors and administrators will be able to easily start a new conversation with a guardian or student.
Rich messaging features, including emoji reactions, threaded responses, and @ tagging to make messaging more fun and engaging.
SMS notifications for new Announcements and Messages, to help you reach all guardians, with the most important information.
Have additional feedback and ideas?
Send us an email to ideas@apptegy.com