Pulse.

The school's news shouldn't live in a group chat it can't see into.

• Themed channels

  Sports, Academics, Arts, the Principal's Desk — the school curates its own channels, each with a cover, a description and an interest tag, so the feed is organised the way the school actually talks.

• Rich-media posts

  Photos, video and up to five YouTube embeds under one caption — match-day galleries and assembly clips, not a flat line of text. Fleeting updates can post as 24-hour stories.

• Reactions & comments

  Parents react — like, love, celebrate, wow — and talk back in threaded comments, with replies one level deep. Comments are a per-channel switch the school can keep on or quietly turn off.

• Interest-based feed

  Parents pick interests at onboarding and are auto-followed into the channels that match. Their feed leans toward what they care about, with a Discover rail for everything else.

• Audience control

  A channel can reach all parents or be restricted to a class, section or grade. A class-only feed scopes each post to the right section, resolved from the academic record — no wrong parent sees it.

• Moderation before publish

  Mark a channel for approval and a contributor's post waits in a queue — approved or rejected with a reason — so nothing reaches parents until the school has signed off on it.

• Report & resolve

  Any parent can flag a post or comment with a reason; moderators work a reports inbox and resolve or dismiss each one — a clean record of what was raised and what was decided.

• Read counts

  Every post quietly records who has actually seen it, so the office can tell the difference between a notice that was sent and one that was read — without ever showing parents a read receipt.

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  Scoped by branch and session, like everything else. A channel belongs to a campus unless it's deliberately made tenant-wide, and class-feed posts resolve audience from the academic record — so the right parents see it this year, and only them.

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  One ledger of who saw what. Posts, reactions, comments, reports and per-person read counts all live in the same platform as fees, attendance and admissions — not a separate group chat the school can't see into.

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  On the same web, iOS and Android apps. Parents read Pulse on their phones; the office posts from the desk. There's even a dedicated standalone reader — Pulse by ScholaRise — for families who only want the feed.

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  Within reach of Sol, the AI agent. The same assistant that answers questions across the school sits over Pulse too — a quiet way to ask what's been posted and what's gone unread, not a fourth tool to learn.

Why it belongs here

A notice that was sent is not the same as a notice that was read. Pulse is the school finally able to tell the two apart.