See what's new in NavEd. Product updates, new features, and improvements for micro school, co-op, and small school management.
Improved follow-up email delivery and scheduling.
Admin monitoring of outbound follow-up emails is now handled via BCC instead of CC, so recipients no longer see the admin address in their inbox. Follow-up emails can also be scheduled to run automatically every day at 10 AM EST using the new Django Q schedule command.
Choose exactly which grade levels appear on a student's transcript.
Transcripts now support an individual grade-level picker instead of a simple "include all grades" toggle. Admins can select any combination of grade levels to include -- for example, grades 8 through 12 -- so the transcript shows precisely what is needed for college applications or record requests.
Streamlined user creation across signup and invitation flows.
Consolidated the internal user creation logic used during school signup and team invitation to use a single, well-tested service. This reduces code complexity and ensures consistent behavior -- the same password handling, profile creation, and data validation runs regardless of how a user joins your school.
School account deletion now works reliably every time.
We heard from users who tried to delete their school and re-register, only to be told their account already existed. The deletion appeared to succeed but silently failed behind the scenes. We tracked down the root cause and fixed it — deletion now fully completes, and you can re-register with the same email immediately afterward.
Self-service school account deletion and contact email update.
School administrators (HODs) can now delete their entire school account from the School Dashboard. Navigate to Profile > Advanced to find a new "Danger Zone" section. Type your school name to confirm, then approve a final warning dialog. The system safely removes all tenant data, user mappings, and orphaned accounts, then logs you out. This also fixes a layout issue where the deletion section appeared outside its correct tab.
All public-facing pages now display the correct support email address ([email protected]).
Your school's data now stays completely within your school.
We discovered an issue where weekly email digests were being delivered to administrators at other schools. While student grades and personal information were not exposed, the email headers and staff activity summaries could include names from the wrong school. We moved fast to fix this.
The root cause was a subtle quirk of our multi-school architecture: the system that finds "all administrators for this school" was accidentally finding all administrators everywhere. We've completely rewritten how email recipients are identified, ensuring every notification is scoped exclusively to the correct school. We've also replaced several internal data lookups with safer, faster alternatives.
Email digests are temporarily paused while we complete additional testing. We'll re-enable them shortly once we're confident everything is working perfectly. Your trust is everything to us—if you ever have questions about data privacy, please reach out.
New: Batch transcript generation for administrators.
Administrators can now generate transcripts for multiple students at once. Toggle "Batch Mode" on the transcript selection page to see a scrollable student list with checkboxes, filter by grade level, and download all selected transcripts as a single ZIP file. A progress bar shows real-time generation status ("Generating transcript 5 of 23..."), and a cancel button lets you abort cleanly without downloading partial results. Students with no grade data are automatically skipped and reported in a summary. The ZIP filename includes the school name, grade level (when filtered), and date.
Improvement: Transcript settings now apply to generated PDFs and previews.
The transcript configuration set on the school profile page (signature, signatory info, section toggles) now flows through to both the HTML transcript preview and the downloadable PDF. When grading scale is toggled OFF, it disappears from both views. When per-year GPA breakdown is toggled OFF, per-year summary lines are hidden (course tables still show). When attendance summary is toggled ON, a yearly attendance summary table appears. The administrator's signature image and signatory name/title replace the generic "School Administrator" text in the certification section.
New: Configure transcript settings from the school profile page.
Administrators can now configure school-wide transcript settings directly from the school profile page under a new "Transcript" tab. Upload or draw an administrator signature, set the signatory name and title, and toggle which sections appear on generated transcripts (grading scale, per-year GPA breakdown, and attendance summary).
New: Download official transcript PDFs directly from the transcript preview page.
Staff and administrators can now click "Download PDF" on any student's transcript preview to generate a professionally formatted PDF transcript. The PDF includes your school's header with logo, student information, courses organized by academic year, per-year and cumulative GPA, grading scale legend, and a certification section with signature lines. Multi-page transcripts include continuation headers and page numbers on every page.
Fixed: Accepting student applications no longer crashes when the parent already has an account.
If a parent submitted an application weeks ago and already had a user account in the system, accepting their application via the bulk dropdown would fail with an internal error. This happened because the system tried to create a parent profile in the wrong database location. Schools with a backlog of applications may have seen this error repeatedly.
This is now fixed. Accepting applications works correctly whether the parent is a brand-new user or already has an existing account. The parent's account type is updated to "Parent" and their profile is created in the correct location.
All students now appear in the Progress Report dropdown regardless of grade level.
If your school has students in elementary grades (or grades that haven't been categorized as upper or middle school), those students were not appearing in the Progress Report student dropdown. This meant teachers and administrators couldn't generate progress reports for those students, and parents couldn't see their elementary-age children in the reports page.
This is now fixed. The Progress Report page shows all students for every user type -- administrators see all students and all subjects, students can always generate their own report, and parents see all of their children regardless of grade classification.
Homeschool parents: you can now teach your own classes.
If you run a homeschool or microschool and tried to add a subject, you may have noticed a frustrating problem—the "Teacher" dropdown was empty. That's because NavEd was only looking for staff members, not realizing that you are the teacher.
We heard from a homeschool parent (welcome to NavEd!) who hit this exact issue. Within hours, we shipped a fix. Now, school administrators appear in the teacher dropdown alongside any staff members. Whether you're a homeschool parent teaching all subjects yourself or an admin at a larger school who occasionally teaches a class, you can assign yourself as the teacher.
New students now appear in all the right places.
We also fixed an issue where newly added students would show up in the User Directory but not in the Students list. This happened because the student profile wasn't being created at the right moment.
Now, when you add a student (or staff member, or parent), their full profile is created automatically—no extra steps needed. They'll appear in all menus immediately, ready for you to enroll them in classes, take attendance, and enter grades.
Cleaner forms for adding students and subjects.
We've refreshed the "Add Student" and "Add Subject" forms with a modern, consistent design. The new forms are easier to read, with clear section dividers, helpful hints under each field, and better mobile responsiveness.
For "Add Student," we've organized fields into two logical groups—Personal Information and Academic Information—so you can quickly find what you need. The "Add Subject" form now shows clear placeholders in dropdown menus, so you always know what to select.
These updates are part of our ongoing effort to make every page in NavEd feel polished and intuitive.
Adding new grade levels works again.
If you tried to add a new academic grade today and got an error message, you weren't alone. A typo in our code meant the "Add Grade" form was broken for everyone.
We fixed it within minutes of hearing from you. Grade levels like "Kindergarten," "1st Grade," or "High School Senior" can now be added without issue. Thank you to the school admin who reported this—your feedback helps us catch problems fast.
Atlas is learning from your questions—so we can make NavEd even better.
Every time you ask Atlas a question it can't answer, that's a signal to us. Maybe we're missing documentation, or maybe there's a feature that's hard to find. We want to know.
Starting today, Atlas quietly logs the questions you ask (not on demo accounts) so our team can review them and improve the help content. We already discovered that users were asking about changing themes, printing schedules, inviting new users, and filtering reports by quarter—and Atlas couldn't help with any of them. So we wrote new help articles for all five topics.
We also updated our support email across the entire app. If you need to reach us, it's now [email protected].
Your school logo is back where it belongs.
Some schools noticed their logo wasn't displaying in the sidebar or on certain pages. Instead of seeing your carefully chosen school branding, you were getting a generic placeholder—not exactly the polished experience you or your families expect.
We traced the issue to a recent platform upgrade and fixed it. Your logo, banner images, and any other uploaded media will now display correctly across all pages. No action needed on your end—everything should just work.
If you're still seeing missing images after today, try a hard refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R on Windows, Cmd+Shift+R on Mac) to clear your browser cache.
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