ADAM newsletter: June 2026
This month brought a big step forward in keeping track of how your classes change through the year, alongside a much smoother online application experience, several new reports to help you chase up portal engagement and leave arrangements, and a steady stream of report-template refinements for individual schools. We've also tidied up the pop-up dialogs you see every day, strengthened sign-in security, and fixed a long list of smaller niggles. Here are the highlights.
Headline: See and edit the full history of a class
Classes change during the year — a teacher hands over, a venue moves, the report text or teaching time is adjusted. Until now, once you changed a class, the previous details were simply overwritten and there was no easy way to see what they used to be or when they changed.
Every class profile page now has a new History tab. It shows a clear visual timeline of the class, with each change highlighted so you can see at a glance who the teacher was in Term 1, when the hand-over happened, and what else was adjusted along the way. Better still, history is no longer just something to look at: staff with the right permission can now correct a past entry, give a change an effective date, and remove a version that was entered by mistake. ADAM protects you while you do this — if a change would affect a report that has already been published, it warns you and asks you to confirm, so you can never quietly rewrite a report that has already gone home. This is a genuine relief for any school that has ever had to reconstruct "who taught this class, and when did it change" from memory.
Five more improvements worth knowing about
Collect documents during the online application
Schools using ADAM's online application now have a much smoother way to gather the paperwork that goes with an application — birth certificates, immunisation records, prior reports and the like. Applicants can upload their documents as part of the application itself, on a single, modern page that shows their progress, rather than chasing them separately afterwards. The application form now carries a clear progress breadcrumb so families always know how far they've got and what's left. On your side, the new Submitted Documents panel on the approval screen lets you preview everything in one place, and ADAM now warns you on that screen when an application looks like a duplicate of someone already on your records, or when a required document is missing — so fewer mistakes slip through at enrolment time.
A daily subject roll-call report
There's a new daily subject roll-call report that lays out, in a single grid, which subject roll calls were taken for a group of pupils across a date range. It's a quick way to spot gaps — a class or subject where attendance wasn't recorded — without clicking through each register. You'll find it under the roll-call reports menu.
Find families and pupils who have never logged in
Two new reports help you chase up portal engagement. The first lists families who have never logged in to the parent portal; the second lists currently enrolled pupils whose family has never logged in. Both are limited to families with a child at the school right now, so the list is genuinely actionable — you can resend invitations, chase detail updates, or fall back to another way of reaching them. Each report can be viewed on screen or downloaded as a spreadsheet, and both use your existing family login-records permission, so there's nothing new to set up.
Attach psychometric reports to learning-support records
For schools using the learning-support module, you can now upload a pupil's psychometric report directly against their result — whether you're capturing results one pupil at a time, working through the bulk capture grid, or editing an existing record. You can view, replace or remove an uploaded report from the same screen, and the files are filed safely in the pupil's documents. A new Administer learning support deletion permission lets the right staff tidy up records that are no longer needed.
Useful Links now reach families and pupils
The Useful Links feature is no longer staff-only. When you add or edit a link you can now choose its audience — staff, families, pupils, or any combination — and links marked for families or pupils appear on their portals. It's an easy way to put a school calendar, a uniform shop or a policy document in front of exactly the right people. ADAM will also gently warn you if you save a link with no audience selected, so a link can't quietly go nowhere.
Smaller improvements and fixes
Reports and academics
- A new Leave Option Lists report shows the named pupils who chose a particular meal or transport option for a weekend away — ideal for building a bus list — alongside the existing tally report.
- The year-end roll-over now correctly handles pupils moving from Grade R into Grade 1 where the school runs a formal Grade R, and a single failing year-end step no longer stops the rest of the year-end process.
- Roll-call absence alerts can now be aimed at the subject teacher, with a new multi-select so you can limit an alert to specific subjects.
- Learning-outcome reports now show level symbols correctly, non-numeric outcomes plot sensibly in graphs, and the class-reporting progress dots no longer count disabled outcomes against you.
- New confirmation pages when adding, editing or deleting a class, and a confirmation step before assigning a questionnaire to a class, so you can see exactly what you're about to do.
- Numerous report-template refinements and new templates for individual schools, plus fixes to historical reports so a class's details now show exactly as they were at the time of that report.
Family and staff communications
- Staff can now be prompted to confirm their own details when they next log in, the same way families already are — a gentle, skippable reminder rather than a hard block.
- Reviewer notification emails for both staff and family detail updates are now sent in the background, so saving a form feels instant.
- Approved leave can now trigger a push notification to families, and staff approval notes are included.
- Grade and class messages now include teaching assistants and copied-in staff among the recipients.
Sign-in
- Passkey sign-in and enrolment now show plain-language messages when something goes wrong, instead of a cryptic failure, and passkey enrolment has been restored to full working order.
Pop-up dialogs and everyday polish
- The confirmation and alert pop-ups throughout ADAM have been rebuilt to match the rest of the system, and several cases where a "Yes"/"No" dialog stopped responding have been fixed.
- Number fields no longer change value when you accidentally scroll over them — a common trackpad annoyance — and routes that can't be found now show a properly styled error page.
Smaller fixes and stability
- The Messaging Centre "test send" now genuinely sends a single test message and reports honestly whether it worked.
- Fixed crashes in universal search, batch report file naming (which sometimes showed "--unknown--"), and a handful of pages that stumbled on missing or unusual data.
We also fixed several security issues.