Since launch, admins and IT directors have sent us a steady stream of specific, practical requests, not feature-list wishes, but “here’s exactly what’s slowing me down.” Over the past few months we built seven of them. None of these are flashy. All of them save time or close a real gap. Here’s what changed and why.
1. A contactability benchmark in District Reports
District Reports now has a read-only “Reachability” section that rolls up nightly, per school, into how reachable your families actually are on each channel: email, push, SMS, voice, and any. It combines signals that used to live in separate places: a valid, non-bounced email or phone on file, SMS opt-out status, each guardian’s notification preferences, and whether a device still has a push token registered. You get a district benchmark (“X of Y schools at 95%+”), a 90-day trend, and a worst-first table, so you know exactly which schools need outreach. It rides the same nightly rollups already powering your Pulse dashboard.
2. Oversight search that answers “what did we send this parent”
The Oversight feed could only be narrowed by tag, group, and date, not enough when the real question is “what did we send this parent” or “which alerts failed last Tuesday.” Oversight now has a search box and real filters, all applied server-side so you’re not scrolling through a page you already downloaded. Search by content or by a person: name, email, phone, or SIS ID. Filter by author, by recipient, by post status (sent, scheduled, draft, pending approval, recalled, or failed), and by a specific school or class inside your scope. A school-wide post still shows up when you search for one of its recipients, not just the school itself.
3. Every Pulse number is now a door
Pulse KPI tiles used to be static numbers. You’d see “12 unfilled volunteer slots” with nowhere to go. Every tile backed by real evidence now opens the exact report behind it. And for a premium customer turning Pulse on for the first time, an opt-in backfill can fill the dashboard with real history instead of empty trend lines, so the first week isn’t a flat chart.
4. Data Sync numbers that open their records
Sync Health had the same problem in a worse form. The Technical tab, the one an IT admin opens to see what actually came in from the SIS, was rendering its chips and header and then nothing underneath, for every stage. That’s fixed. The “what came in” tiles no longer overflow in the Manage layout, and the first time you open a school’s Technical tab cold, a background snapshot refresh kicks off on its own instead of waiting for someone to press a button. Most usefully: every number on the Data Sync screen is now a door too. “23 classes need a look” opens the 23 classes.
5. One place to assign staff capabilities
Staff capabilities are now assigned in one place: Manage. There’s no separate “Staff Roles” screen anymore. Capabilities show up as a chip picker right where you’re already changing someone’s role or inviting a new staff member, matching how Custom Roles already work. We also made the capability catalog aware of your organization type: a City account and its departments see a narrower, city-specific set of capabilities instead of the full school/district list. Six new capability types for City accounts, like Agenda Clerk and Public Records Officer, are in the catalog now; the module permissions that will use them are coming in follow-up releases.
6. Web tabs update themselves
If you had Bloomz open in a browser tab when we shipped an update, you used to keep running yesterday’s build until you refreshed it yourself, which meant a trickle of “hard refresh” support tickets after every release. Open tabs now check in regularly, and within a short window they either show a quiet banner offering to refresh, or, if the tab has been sitting idle and hidden for a while, refresh themselves. A tab that’s visible and in use is never refreshed out from under you. This is web-only; native apps already have their own update flow through the app store.
7. Feature search, so 40+ modules stay findable
Adding roughly 20 modules in one release solved a lot of problems and created a new one: the More menu is now 40-plus cards, and Settings → Features is a long list of toggle groups you had to hunt through one collapsed section at a time. Both surfaces now have a simple text filter. On the More menu it appears once you have enough cards that scanning stops being practical; on Settings → Features it’s pinned at the top, and matching sections auto-expand so you’re not hunting through collapsed accordions for the switch you just searched for.
Available now
All seven of these are rolling out to Bloomz customers. The contactability benchmark and Pulse’s evidence-backed KPIs live alongside our Insights & Analytics dashboards; the Data Sync work is part of the SIS integration story. For the full list of what shipped this year, see what’s new in 2026. If you don’t see one of these yet, ask your success manager, some are still rolling out by district.
One thing deliberately not on this list: district-level PowerSchool setup, where one credential set serves every school the way our Infinite Campus district panel already does. The backend for it is built and tested; the district panel that puts it in front of you is the next step, and we’ll say so here when it lands.