What's new in BFS-SMS

Super admins can now switch the public changelog on or off as a master, then independently choose where the "What's new" link surfaces — the SaaS landing footer, every school's public website footer, the login page, or the in-app footer.

A public-facing page (the one you're reading right now) that lists every shipped feature, improvement, and fix as it lands. Existing schools get a confidence-boosting reference to share, and prospects see the pace of development at a glance.

Parents and students can now install BFS-SMS on Android, iPhone, and iPad home screens. The app launches with your school's name, logo, and brand colour, opens straight to the dashboard, and works offline for pages already viewed.

A clear "Install the App" card appears on the login screen, with platform-specific guidance for users on every browser.

The portal now uses our modern indigo and slate palette regardless of admin theme, with mobile-first spacing, larger tap targets, and a per-user dark/light toggle in the topbar.

A new advanced search page covers school news, events, gallery albums, and pages, with type, date-range, and keyword filters. A magnifier icon appears on every public page.

A dedicated browse-by-year and browse-by-month view for school news, linked from the news listing, news detail sidebar, and site header.

Event pages now show a sticky info card with a live countdown ("Happening today" / "N days to go"), a dedicated share row for Facebook, X, WhatsApp and LinkedIn, and a refreshed "Upcoming Events" sidebar.

Every photo and video in an album now has its own shareable URL — paste the link to anyone and it opens that exact item.

A premium rewrite of the public-facing school site with refined typography, a brand-accented design system, dark mode (with persistent toggle), and a responsive navigation that scales with your menu length. About, FAQ, Teachers, News, Events, Gallery, Contact, Online Admission, Exam Results, Admit Card and Certificates pages all redesigned.

A new opt-in staff visibility page with a 4-card featured grid on the homepage and a designation-grouped listing on the full team page.

The admission confirmation page now prints cleanly to a single A4 sheet without a separate template.

Removed an unrelated marketing button that was distracting parents and students arriving at the school login. Each corner now holds one clear control: the theme toggle on the left and a "Back to your school" link on the right.

Long menus now chunk into 6-item sub-columns and the footer container widens so Contact and Hours columns stop wrapping awkwardly.

Designation titles sized properly with breathing room and accent underlines between groups.

Installation prompts now appear reliably on Chrome again after a brief regression. Install card now only shows when the browser actually supports one-tap install.

Smart-alert trigger rows in SMS Settings now correctly expand to reveal the message-body editor, with clearer "sends to admin staff" recipient guidance.

After approval, applicants are now correctly returned to the school they applied to — no more falling back to a generic landing page.

The WhatsApp chat widget no longer opens and immediately closes on the new public site skin.

A proactive alert system that surfaces students and classes most likely to need attention — chronic absence, missing exam marks, behavioural-report gaps. Alerts appear on the dashboard, in a notification bell on the topbar, and can be sent out via SMS or email.

A single template now reshapes itself for A4, A5, or 80mm thermal printers. Honours your selected-rows filter. No more switching templates per printer.

A combined to-do and upcoming-events panel with inline checkbox toggle, per-event colour, 12-hour AM/PM time, and full dark-mode support.

Slate, Aurora, and BFS Modern skins added to the theme picker; sidebar and topbar refreshed across the platform.

A seven-section, insight-rich layout — Hero KPIs, Finance, Academics, Reception, Staff & HR, Operations and Inventory — each gated by both your modules and your role so users only see what is relevant to them.

Hostel, Transport, Fees, Office Accounting, Reception, and Lesson Plan each get a dedicated insights landing page as the first item in their sidebar menu.

Class assignments now allow up to three teachers per class+section. Duplicate-teacher detection still prevents adding the same teacher twice.

Chronic absence, missing marks, and behavioural-report alerts now name the exact class and section affected so admins can act faster.

Expiry messages now pluralise correctly ("1 day" vs "2 days") and have been reworded for clarity.

Performance pass on hot tables and lazy-loading of secondary sections — dashboards measurably quicker on large schools.

Dashboard parent, staff, and student count tiles now exclude deactivated users so the numbers match the rest of the system.

Branches with NGN currency now default to the familiar 12,300,000.50 format. Currency dropdown labels also corrected.

Form, button, and panel contrast restored in dark mode. Sidebar gradient deepened. Page-header titles read solidly without gradient bleed.

Clicking a day in month view (especially weeks with events on them) now reliably opens the day, even on dashboards with personal to-dos enabled.

Table rows in dark mode no longer wash out to white on hover.

Style and script edits now reach users on first load instead of being held back by stale browser caches.

Page-header icon and title now sit on one compact row on mobile in both light and dark mode. Long titles ellipse cleanly instead of wrapping.

Retakes now correctly score the latest attempt instead of summing all attempts, and questions with rich content render properly instead of going blank.

Pass/fail now uses the overall percentage and minimum passing percentage consistently, replacing an older grade-lookup that produced occasional mismatches.