New Features and Enhancements (2nd October 2026)

NFORMA – Recent Enhancements & New Features (October 2^nd 2026)

We have completed a substantial range of improvements across the NFORMA platform, covering staff, parents, student wellbeing, medical, attendance, communications, nMeet, PSG/Parent Connect and the mobile experience.

Staff Bulletin – New

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• New Staff Bulletin feature for important daily staff communications.
• Bulletins can be targeted to staff/admin audiences.
• Supports school-specific and broader bulletin visibility.
• Bulletins can be pinned so important notices remain prominent.
• Multiple pinned bulletins can be displayed, with pinned items shown first.
• Displays who created the bulletin and the relevant school/scope.
• Read/unread tracking allows staff to clearly identify new bulletins.
• Supports recurring bulletin content.
• Designed as a prominent staff communication area rather than relying on email alone.

Attendance

• Reintroduced "select" tick box for students and apply bulk update
• New/improved Blank Attendance Roll.
• Attendance rolls can be filtered by Home Group and Year Level.
• PDF output available for staff use.
• Improved attendance reporting presentation.
• Work completed to make attendance reports more suitable for printing and operational use.
• Digital Form accepted-student PDF reporting has also been aligned with attendance-style presentation.
• Attendance history and emergency attendance reporting have received performance and usability improvements.

Staff Dashboard

• Refreshed staff dashboard with a cleaner, more useful daily view.
• Improved access to student, attendance and operational information.
• Improved date navigation and daily snapshots.
• Performance work to reduce unnecessary loading and database processing.
• Better presentation of information required by staff during the school day.

nMeet

• Parent nMeet bookings now support improved family visibility.
• For normal families, when one parent makes a booking, the other linked parent can see the same
• appointment.
• Either linked parent can manage, cancel or rebook the shared family appointment.
• Split-family privacy is preserved — parents in a split-family arrangement only see and manage their own booking.
• Improved consistency between the web portal and mobile app.
• Online and Face-to-Face meeting types are more clearly identified.
• Meeting type included in staff/export information.
• Improved teacher-side appointment management.
• Teacher notes/comments against bookings have also been developed as part of the nMeet workflow.
• Improved student identification where students have similar or identical names.

PSG / Parent Connect

• Major improvements to PSG/Parent Connect meeting management.
• Staff can manage parent appointments more effectively from the school portal.
• Staff can book appointments on behalf of parents where required.
• Improved handling of past/open appointment slots for administration.
• Bulk completion of meetings available for staff workflows.
• Audit information retained around appointment management.
• Existing consent, signature and document workflows preserved.
• Home Group is now displayed alongside student names to avoid confusion where students share the same name.
• Student selectors restricted to active/current students.
• Improved sorting and student selection.
• Improved PSG edit-screen performance for large student cohorts.
• Existing bookings protected when schedules or availability are updated.
• Safer regeneration of appointment slots.
• Online meeting availability automatically respects the school's Google Meet configuration.

Student Medical

• Significant update to the Student Medical area.
• Improved medical overview and presentation for staff.
• Medical information available through both web and mobile workflows.
• Improved emergency contacts, medical contacts, health conditions and medication management.
• Medical document management improved.
• Better visibility of important medical indicators such as severe reactions and other health alerts.
• Improved permission handling around medical information.
• Parent and staff medical workflows aligned more closely across the platform.

Emergency Medical Report – New

• New Emergency Medical Report designed for urgent situations such as calling 000.
• Provides key student information in a clear printable PDF.
• Includes student identity, date of birth, age, Year Level/Home Group and student photo.
• Includes parent/guardian contact information.
• Includes critical medical information such as:

• Anaphylaxis
• Asthma
• Allergies
• Epilepsy
• Food intolerances
• Other health conditions
• Medicare information
• Private health details
• Ambulance membership

• Designed to give staff fast access to essential information during an emergency.
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Wellbeing

• Improved Wellbeing Notes and document handling.
• Wellbeing documents now respect the same permission model used for Wellbeing Notes.
• Documents can be restricted according to permission level.
• Download, rename and delete actions now enforce those permissions.
• Existing wellbeing documents have been aligned with the updated permission model.
• Improved staff access to wellbeing information where authorised.

First Aid

• Improved First Aid workflows for staff.
• First Aid incidents can be created and reviewed more easily.
• Required-field validation improved.
• First Aid history available from student medical information.
• Improved integration between First Aid and the wider Student Medical area.
• Work also supports parent notification/badge behaviour where enabled.

Parent & Guardian Information

• Parent lists and search screens have been modernised.
• Student names displayed underneath parents to make relationships clearer.
• Last Login information added to improve school visibility of parent portal engagement.
• Improved filtering so current parent relationships are shown correctly.
• Past relationships are excluded from current communication areas where appropriate.
• Split-family handling strengthened across relevant student and parent workflows.

Chat & Parent Communication

• Parent/staff chat updated to use current parent relationships only.
• Past student relationships are excluded from active chat.
• Improved parent/student relationship validation.
• Better handling of current versus past families.
• Mobile chat, attachments, read status and badge behaviour have been included in the wider mobile development.

Digital Forms

• Continued improvements to Digital Forms across web and mobile.
• Better visibility of accepted/completed forms.
• Improved accepted-student PDF reporting.
• Improved student and parent relationship handling.
• Digital Forms integrated more consistently into the mobile parent experience.