See what's new in NavEd. Product updates, new features, and improvements for micro school, co-op, and small school management.
Class documents, submissions, and teacher feedback in NavEd Lessons now open right in the page.
PDF and Word files attached to a lesson, a student's turned-in work, or a
teacher's feedback now open in place, with a button to pop them into their own
tab for easier reading. Downloading still works exactly as before.
A few small fixes to attendance and document previews.
On the home page attendance card, parents no longer see a "Confirm attendance"
button for a day that is already fully recorded. The record still shows, so a
parent can see the day is handled, but there is nothing left to press. We also
cleared up a background error that could happen while viewing the Cohort
Management tab, and fixed a document preview that could leave a loading spinner
on screen even after the document had finished loading underneath it.
A quick attendance reminder now shows up right on the home page.
Admins and teachers see a small Attendance card on their home page whenever
something still needs to be recorded for the day, scoped to whatever cohorts
they can actually take attendance for. Nothing to do, nothing to see: the card
only appears when today is a school day and attendance is still outstanding.
Schools with at-home learning days can also turn on a new option, from the
Attendance page's Cohort Management tab, that lets parents record their own
child's attendance for that day, right from the same home page card, including
catching up on a day they missed. A teacher's own record always takes priority
if one already exists for that day. Attendance records a parent recorded are
labeled "Recorded by a parent" wherever a teacher or admin reviews them, so it
is always clear who recorded a given day.
Assignments can now be given to specific students instead of the whole class.
When you create or edit an assignment, choose who it's for. Everyone stays selected by default, so nothing changes unless you narrow it. Students who aren't part of an assignment won't see it, and their families won't be told about it. The "graded" count for an assignment now only counts the students it was actually given to.
Accommodations now live on the roster, not in a separate document.
Teachers can now log accommodations right on the roster they already use for
grades and attendance, so nothing gets forgotten. Families see a plain,
day-by-day record of what was provided.
Word documents posted as class materials now open right in the page.
Click to preview one, or open it in its own tab to keep working from.
Downloading still works exactly as before.
Line items in the Payment & Fees panel of the form builder are easier to read and edit.
Item names, prices, and quantity options no longer get cut off in the side panel.
Club registrations nobody paid for are now clear to everyone, and you can act on them.
When a family starts a club signup and never finishes paying, their own
registration page used to tell them they had already paid. It now shows what is
actually owed, including any card processing fee, with a button to pay whenever
they are ready.
On your roster those registrations used to read "Payment Pending", which
suggested money was on its way. They now read "Not paid yet" with the date the
signup started, so you can tell at a glance that nothing is in transit.
They also have two new buttons. Send payment link emails the family a link to
pay, with the amount stated, for when they lost the original. Remove takes the
registration off the roster and frees the spot. Nothing was ever charged for
these, so there is no refund to issue. Registrations that were paid for still
go through Refund so the family gets their money back.
Forms and payments are now on every plan.
Building forms, collecting payments, and setting up tuition are available to
every school, on every plan. Taking tuition is part of running a school, so it
is no longer something you upgrade for.
Tuition now has its own place in the menu.
Setting up a tuition plan used to be several clicks inside Payments. Tuition is
now its own item in the sidebar. You can copy a payment link for any family who
owes, or email it to them, and recording a cash or check payment still works
whether or not you take card payments.
Start a form from a template instead of a blank page.
Nine ready made forms are now waiting for you: enrollment application, waitlist,
registration deposit, tuition plan, spirit wear order, pizza day order, field
trip permission, photo release, and emergency contact and medical release. Pick
one and it arrives fully built, including the price and quantity for the ones
that collect money. Change anything you like before you publish it.
Our pricing page now works the way our home page already does.
Tell us how many students you have and see the one flat yearly price for
your school, with the full list of plan sizes below it for reference. We
removed the side-by-side plan cards and the feature comparison table, since
every NavEd plan already includes every feature.
New plan sizes for larger schools, and updated pricing on two plans.
Schools of up to 700 and up to 1,000 students now have a plan of their own,
so a growing school no longer runs off the end of the list. The plans for up
to 250 and up to 400 students have new yearly prices. Every plan still
includes every feature, and your first five students are still free, forever.
Schools already on a plan keep the price they signed up on. If you were
quoted the previous price for the up-to-250-student plan in the last 30
days, we will honor that quote. Just mention it when you sign up.
Confirmation pop-ups on payments and clubs now open properly.
Clicking Issue Refund turned the screen black instead of asking you to
confirm, so the refund could not be completed. These pop-ups now open
centred on the page. No payment or refund was ever affected.
The refund confirmation box on the payment page now appears.
Clicking Issue Refund on a payment showed a dark screen with nothing on it,
so the refund could not be confirmed. The confirmation box now opens the way
it already did everywhere else. No payment or refund was affected.
Clearer wording on our home page.
We reworded the line that describes what NavEd covers, and changed one
heading so it says what you get back rather than what you lose.
The pricing section on our home page is easier to read.
Instead of six plan cards competing for attention, you tell us roughly how
many students you have and we show you the one price that applies. The free
tier now sits at the top on its own, where it is easy to find.
Fixed a billing issue where a partial refund on a club payment could show the full fee as due again.
If your school issued a partial refund on a paid club registration, the family's account could incorrectly show the entire fee as owed again, on top of the partial amount already returned to them. That no longer happens. A full refund still clears the fee as before, and nothing changes about how refunds are issued.
You can add a question to a form you have already shared.
Once a form was published, every option for adding a new question was greyed out,
so the only way to ask one more thing was to build the form again and send a new
link to every family. You can add questions now, and reword or reorder the ones
already there, on a form that is live and even on one families have already filled
in. Answers already given are kept exactly as they were, and a question that has
been answered still cannot be deleted or changed to a different kind of question,
because that would rewrite what a family told you. You can also fix a price on a
live form right up until the first family pays. Once anyone has paid, the prices
and fee settings stay locked.
You can now download every elective class list at once, sorted by grade and homeroom.
The download gives you one line per student per elective, with their grade
level, homeroom, the teacher, the room, and the day and block the class
meets. It comes out already grouped by grade level and then by homeroom,
so the list you hand a teacher is in the order your school is organized.
Every actively enrolled student's row is in the file now, no matter how
many pages the table used to have. The older download on that page only
picked up the students showing on screen, so a school with more
enrollments than fit on one page got a short file with no warning. A
student whose account has since been deactivated is not included, the
same as the per-elective roster page.
You can also set a room for an elective when you add or edit it, so the
room shows up on the download instead of staying blank.
A feature we turn on for your school by hand now stays on.
If we enable something for your school outside your normal plan, a routine
internal maintenance run could quietly switch it back off. It no longer can.
Nothing you turned on yourself was ever affected.
You can add a student's date of birth right when you add them.
The Add Student form now has a Date of Birth field, so you don't have to save a
student and then go back in to fill it in. It's optional, and a student added
without one is fully enrolled. Turn on a Date of Birth column on the Students
page with the Columns button, and it comes through when you export or print
the roster.
Fixed a problem that was stopping updates from going out.
An internal database update was running in the wrong place, which stopped
new releases from reaching schools. Nothing was lost and no school data was
affected. Updates are flowing again.
Service hours now have a home of their own in the app.
Community service hours used to live only on each student's own profile,
with no way to see the whole school at a glance. There's now a Service
Hours page under Academic in the menu (HODs and staff) that lists every
student with their hours logged for the current school year, searchable
by name and filterable by grade. Click through to a student to see, print,
or export their full record, same as before.
Tightened up permission checks in NavEd Lessons.
We reviewed how NavEd Lessons decides who can see and manage a school's units and lesson content, and tightened several checks so a school's lessons are only ever reachable by the people who actually belong to that school.
Archiving a lesson unit now actually puts it away, and the Archive button works.
We shipped archiving for NavEd Lessons a day ago, but two pieces of it weren't finished: the Archive and Unarchive buttons didn't respond to a click, and an archived unit could still turn up in a student's lesson list or a teacher's review queue instead of staying out of the way like it's supposed to.
Both are fixed now. Archiving a unit puts it away everywhere -- your own list, your students' lessons, and anyone reviewing their work -- without deleting anything, and you can bring it back any time.
Plan buttons on your billing page and student-limit prompts now only ever
show plans you can actually buy.
Yearly plan options on your school's billing page, and the prompt you see
when you reach your student limit, now always match a real, working price
-- no more buttons that led nowhere. Printing your student roster also now
covers every student on the page, not just part of it.
Cleaned up a batch of claims on our public pages that were ahead of what
the product actually does.
Tuition & Payment Plans now says clearly that your school sends the
pay-link when a payment comes due (NavEd doesn't send it for you), and we
gave the check, cash, and state choice-funds payment option -- already
supported -- much more visibility, since it's how a lot of families
actually pay. The School Calendar page no longer says parents and students
can see the calendar or that attendance is excluded automatically; it now
says what's true, that Take Attendance warns your staff when a day is
closed. Service Hours and the School Calendar are both marked "free on
every plan" instead of showing a price. Curriculum delivery now correctly
says it's included in every paid annual plan, not every plan. The
"unlimited students" language left on a couple of free-tool screens is
gone, our feature count now matches on every page that shows one, and our
features page lists every feature we actually have a page for.
Our public website now speaks to homeschool co-ops, Classical
Conversations communities, university-model schools, classical Christian
schools, and small private academies by name, not just microschools and
co-ops.
We also added public pages for five features that were already part of
NavEd but never had one: tuition payment plans, electronic signatures,
service hours tracking, NavEd Lessons, and the school calendar. Our yearly
pricing now shows all five plan sizes, up to 250 and 500 students included,
with the first 5 students free on every one, shown as a real option instead
of a footnote.
We also cleaned up a few things that were out of date: the free gradebook
and free attendance tools now point you to real NavEd pricing instead of a
sales pitch when you hit their student limit, our school count and grade
count now match everywhere on the site, and we removed three feature pages
that described tools nobody could actually turn on.
Your payout breakdowns show who paid and what they bought again.
On some recent payouts the deposit amount was right but the family names and the
items they paid for were blank, so there was no way to tell your team who a
deposit belonged to. For payments made through NavEd, those details are back,
including on deposits you already received. A deposit that mixes different
things, say a lunch order and a club fee in the same week, is still broken out
line by line under each item, and the CSV export carries the same detail. If a
payment was taken directly in Stripe rather than through NavEd, the page still
says so instead of guessing, and if we still cannot connect a payment to a
family, the page says that plainly instead of hiding it. None of your amounts
or totals changed.
Buying a yearly plan from the pricing page now actually works, and student
lists load faster for larger schools.
The yearly plan cards on our public pricing page used to send you back to
the signup form instead of starting checkout. If you're signed in and
viewing the pricing page from your own school, clicking a yearly plan now
takes you straight to payment.
We also sped up the student list for schools with a lot of students -- it
now loads a page at a time instead of trying to show everyone at once,
while searching, printing, and exporting still work across your whole list.
NavEd Lessons now shows up as something you can unlock.
If your plan does not yet include NavEd Lessons, it now appears under
"Unlock more" in your sidebar instead of being invisible. Nothing changes
for your students or your data until you choose to turn it on.
You can now put a lesson unit away without losing it, and remove a file you
attached by mistake.
In NavEd Lessons, archiving a unit puts it away everywhere -- your own list,
your students' lessons, and anyone reviewing their work -- without deleting
anything. Every section, step, and past student submission stays exactly as
it was, and you can bring the unit back any time. You can also remove a
file, link, or video you attached to a lesson step, without rebuilding the
whole step.
If you run the school and also have a child in it, you can fill out forms again.
An account with admin access was only ever shown the form management screen, which
had no way to answer a form. A form addressed to you now shows a Fill Out button
right on that screen, next to the form it belongs to. Parents whose account was set
up under a different role can open those forms now too.
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