Overview

This release focuses on improving performance, streamlining navigation from notifications, enhancing security, updating UI consistency, and resolving several functional issues across Billing, Notifications, Expenses, Inventory, LMS, and Dashboard modules.

Smarter, Clearer Notifications for Faster Action

We’ve significantly improved how notifications work across both the School App and Parent App, making it easier for users to understand, access, and act on updates—without any confusion or extra steps.

What’s improved

  • Every notification now opens exactly what it’s meant to

    Whether it’s a notice board update, a parent note, or an important reminder, tapping a notification now takes users directly to the specific item—not just the feature’s main screen. This means no searching, no guessing, and no missed updates.

  • Direct access from Notification History

    Even if a notification was cleared earlier, users can revisit it anytime from Notification History and open the exact update with a single tap. This helps schools and parents stay informed without retracing steps across different sections of the app.

  • Clear visual indicators for unread and read notifications

    Notifications are now easier to track at a glance:

    • A pink dot indicates unread notifications
    • A green dot appears once a notification is opened

    These indicators update automatically, keeping the notification list clean, intuitive, and user-friendly.

  • Birthday reminders that open instantly in the Calendar

    Birthday notifications now open directly to the child’s entry in the Calendar, making it easy for teachers and staff to identify upcoming birthdays and plan celebrations or classroom activities effortlessly.

Why this matters for schools:

These improvements reduce friction, save time, and ensure important communication is never overlooked. Teachers, admins, and parents can now move from notification to action seamlessly—creating a smoother, calmer, and more reliable day-to-day experience.

Stronger Protection for Lesson Plans and Assessments

We’ve further strengthened how learning content is protected in Kriyo—so schools can share, plan, and assess with greater confidence.

Lesson plans and assessment templates in Kriyo were already protected from downloads. With this update, we’ve added an additional layer of security to ensure your intellectual property remains fully safeguarded.

What’s new

  • Screenshots are disabled
  • Screen recording is disabled
  • Screen sharing is disabled

These protections apply across lesson plans and assessments ensuring that your school’s carefully created content cannot be copied, recorded, or shared without permission.

Why this matters for schools:

Curriculum planning and assessments represent significant effort by educators and school leaders. This update helps schools:

  • Protect original academic content
  • Maintain control over learning materials
  • Build trust with educators who contribute lesson plans and assessments
  • Ensure content is used only within the intended learning environment

It’s another step towards creating a secure, respectful, and professional digital ecosystem for schools—where what you create stays yours.

Clearer, Globally Consistent School Identity on Invoices

The field previously labelled “Trust / Company Name” has been renamed to “Registered Name.” This ensures that the school’s legally registered name appears consistently and accurately on fee invoices.

Why this matters for schools

  • Invoices now reflect the school’s official registered identity
  • Terminology is globally relevant, not region-specific.
  • Creates greater clarity and professionalism in parent-facing financial documents

This small but important update helps schools present a clear, consistent, and credible identity in all billing communication.

Bug Fixes & Reliability Improvements

Inventory

  • Accurate stock validation while issuing items
  • Inventory checks have been corrected to ensure stock availability is validated against the current quantity selected. This prevents unnecessary error messages when issuing items and ensures smoother, more reliable inventory handling for school staff.

Billing & Payments

  • Clear and consistent penalty information
  • Penalty labels are now uniform across the system, ensuring clarity for both schools and parents.

  • Improved part-payment handling
  • Bills with penalties now calculate part payments correctly, avoiding confusion or mismatches.

  • Penalties applied reliably across all payment modes
  • Penalties are now applied consistently, regardless of the payment gateway used.

  • Smooth saving of invoice-linked program edits
  • Program changes made while accessing invoices from notifications now save correctly.

  • Faster performance for large invoice summaries
  • Invoice lists load more smoothly, even for schools managing a high volume of billing data.

Parent Notes

  • Resolved status is now clearly visible from notifications
  • When a Parent Note is accessed via notifications or notification history, staff can now clearly see if the note has already been resolved by another team member. This helps avoid duplicate responses and ensures better coordination among teachers and admins.

Expenses

  • Improved stability while splitting expenses
  • The app now handles empty tax values safely, preventing unexpected crashes during expense entry.

Diary & History

  • Cleaner visual alignment in child profiles
  • Selected children’s names and profile icons are now properly aligned, making the diary view easier to read and navigate.