Homeroom Digital · the delivery side of the publications suite
Every publication ends up as a link a family can open, and a page ready for the printer
A yearbook page, a newspaper story, a literary-magazine spread, a memory book, a daily bulletin -- each is composed once, set to a print-ready page for the office and the printer, and posted as an online edition a family opens from a link. No app, no install, no account to read it. This page names what is built today and what is still the honest next step.
Four facts, each labelled honestly
Three of these run today. One does not yet, and this page says so before a reader has to go looking for the catch.
A finished publication is not the same as a delivered one
A school can compose a beautiful yearbook page, file it, and still have most families never see it until the printed book arrives months later. The newspaper story that mattered on a Tuesday is stale by the time anyone reads it in a stapled packet on Friday.
That gap is not a writing problem or a design problem. It is a delivery problem -- the part after composition and before a family actually reads the thing.
Most schools close that gap with a PDF emailed once, a link posted to a page nobody bookmarks, or nothing at all until the print run ships. None of those is a real answer to “where do I read today's edition,” asked by a family on a phone.
This page is the honest answer to that one question, across every publication type the platform already sets: a stable link, opened without an app, filed where it can be found again next term.
The five publication types this page can honestly say ship both ways
Every row below carries a print-ready page and an online edition today. Nothing here is a plan -- each is described in the platform’s own publications-suite and bulletin pages, linked at the foot of this page.
| Publication | What it is | Print-ready page | Online edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearbook | The senior-year record every family keeps, set through the deepest editor in the category, with layers, version history, and a print check that refuses a broken job rather than shipping one. | Live | Live |
| Newspaper | A story that cannot wait for the printer posts as an online edition the day it is filed, on the same pitch-to-editor-in-chief workflow the print issue runs on. | Live | Live |
| Literary magazine | Student writing and art, set on the identical pipeline as every other publication here -- the same print-ready page, the same online edition, the same archive. | Live | Live |
| Memory book | A shorter-cycle publication -- a season, a grade, a single event -- carried on the same pipeline as the full annual, at whatever size the school actually needs. | Live | Live |
| Daily bulletin | Today's announcements, assembled by an editor from what staff contribute, set to a print-ready page for the office board and posted the same morning. | Live | Live |
Report cards and transcripts are deliberately NOT in this table -- they disclose differently, and the section below states that difference plainly rather than folding them in here.
How one composed page becomes something a family can open
Five stages, the same shape for every publication type above. The first four are built and running. The fifth is the honest early-access step, and it is drawn the same way here as it is described in words -- nothing hidden past the fold.
A family can always reach a posted edition at its own link today, whether or not the push has happened. The push changes how a family finds out an edition exists -- it never gates whether the edition itself is reachable.
Pushing a posted edition into an inbox, a text, or an automated read-aloud call is not live. It is the platform’s outbound send leg, and it is honest early-access -- not generally available, and this page will not describe it as delivered.
What is live today is the link itself: a posted online edition is reachable the moment it posts, whether or not any push has fired. A family who already knows to check can always read it.
When the push does open, this page will say so plainly, and it will keep naming which channel -- inbox, text, or call -- rather than a single vague word like “notified.”
Live, two-way messaging between a school and a family already exists on the platform, as its own facet -- see homeroom.chat. This page’s outbound push is different: a one-way notice that a specific edition has posted, not a conversation.
Report cards and transcripts: a different shape of delivery, stated plainly
A report card is not a publication in the sense above -- there is no online edition a family clicks open the way they would a yearbook page or a bulletin. It discloses a different way, and this page draws that line rather than blurring it.
A grade sitting in the gradebook is an internal record, not a disclosure. The disclosure event is the moment a report card or transcript is actually issued -- to a parent, as a printed copy, or as a digital credential. That issuing step is consent-gated at the moment it happens, not by a rule buried in the database.
An issued report card a family already received is never rewritten in place. If a grade is corrected afterward, the term grade moves to an ‘amended’ status -- its own new row in an append-only change log, with its own timestamp -- and the amendment surfaces on the next transcript read or the next report card issued. It never silently edits the copy already sent home.
This page states the mechanism, not a promise about what any law entitles a family to. What that consent gate legally guarantees is a school's counsel to speak to, not marketing copy.
What a family actually sees when they open the link
The same edition, seen two different ways
Delivery is not one experience. What a reader notices depends on which side of the link they are standing on.
A family opening a link
A text or an email said an edition posted -- or, until that push opens, a family already knew to check. Either way, the link opens straight into the edition: no app-store detour, no account to create, no password to remember from last term.
The page they land on is the same online-edition reader across every publication type on this page, so a family who has read a bulletin already knows how to read the yearbook. It resizes to whatever screen is in their hand, and the accessible reading path -- screen-reader-friendly export, a legible default layout -- is not a separate, paid version of the page.
An adviser composing an edition
An adviser or a front-office editor works in one editor regardless of which publication type they are setting -- the yearbook, the newspaper, the literary magazine, the memory book, the daily bulletin. Composing does not change tool by publication.
When the edition is ready, setting it to a print-ready page and posting the online edition is the same action, not two separate exports to keep in sync by hand. The archive files itself; nobody has to remember to save a copy anywhere else.
Consent governs what goes IN an edition, before this page ever gets involved
This page is deliberately narrow. It describes what happens to a publication once it is composed and cleared -- not how a family sets or withdraws consent in the first place. That full account, written for a parent rather than an operator, lives at homeroom.family.
The short version: any item naming a student routes through the consent gate at the moment it is disclosed, not on a delay and not queued for a human to remember. That is true whether the disclosure is a posted online edition or an issued report card.
Where a finished publication usually goes, and where it goes here
This compares two arrangements a school can end up with, not two named products.
| What you are asking about | A PDF emailed once, or nothing | Homeroom Digital |
|---|---|---|
| Where do I read today's edition? | Wherever the last email happened to land, if it was sent at all | A stable link, reachable the moment it posts |
| Does last term's edition still exist? | Buried in an inbox, if it was ever archived | In the running archive, at its own dated URL |
| Does a family need an app or a login to read it? | Depends on the tool that sent the PDF | No app, no account, just the link |
| Is a student item consent-checked before it goes out? | Usually a manual step, if it happens at all | Checked at the moment of disclosure, every time |
| Does a correction silently change what was already sent? | Depends who has the file and whether they resend it | Never -- a correction is a new amended row, not an edit |
| Is a family notified when a new edition posts? | Only if someone remembers to send an email | Early access -- the link is live now, the push is next |
Students are minors, and this page is scoped accordingly
Nothing on this page names a real student, shows a real report card, or shows a real posted edition. Every example above is a role or a mechanism -- a publication type, a status, a consent gate -- never a sample record that could be mistaken for a real one.
There is no public directory of what any family has been sent on this page, and no page here lists which students appear in which edition. That governance question belongs to homeroom.family and homeroom.gallery, not to this delivery-facing page.
Honest on the money: nothing is sold on this page
There is no price, no plan, and no checkout here. Delivery is not billed separately from the rest of the platform, and this page makes no claim about what any part of Homeroom costs.
Where the build actually is
Three lines, so nobody has to read between them.
Running today. The publications engine's print-ready page, online edition, and running archive, across the five publication types above. Report-card and transcript disclosure to a parent, a printed copy, or a digital credential, consent-gated at the emit call.
Being built. The outbound push -- an inbox blast, a text, or an automated read-aloud call -- that tells a family a new edition has posted.
Not started and not promised. A published price for delivery specifically, a delivery-time guarantee, and any claim of a school already relying on the push leg.
Questions, answered short
Is homeroom.digital its own product, separate from Homeroom?
No. It is a facet of the one platform at homeroom.software -- the delivery side of the publications suite, in the same sense that a school's roster and consent module are facets, not separate products with a separate login.
Does opening an online edition require an account?
No. A posted edition opens from a link on any phone or laptop, with no app to install and no account to create to read it. The consent gate governs what is IN the edition before it posts, not whether a family can open the link.
Can a family get a text or an email when a new edition posts?
Not yet. That outbound push -- an inbox blast, a text, or an automated read-aloud call -- is honest early-access. This page will not say it is live until it is, and it defers to homeroom.chat for the platform's live messaging.
Is a report card delivered the same way as a yearbook page?
No, and this page is careful not to blur the two. A report card or transcript discloses to a parent, a printed copy, or a digital credential, consent-gated at the moment it is issued. There is no online-edition reader for a report card the way there is for a yearbook or a bulletin.
If a grade is corrected after a report card already went home, does the family's copy change?
No. The issued report card a family already received is never rewritten in place. A correction moves the term grade to an 'amended' status, in a new row of the append-only grade-change log, and surfaces on the next report card or transcript -- never a silent edit to what already went home.
Who can see a posted online edition?
Whoever the school scopes it to, resolved off the same roster every other module reads. Any item that names a student routes through the consent gate at the moment it is posted, not after.
Is there a price for delivery specifically?
No. Nothing on this page is sold separately, and nothing on this page is sold at all -- there is no price, no plan, and no checkout here.
What happens to an edition once it is posted -- does it disappear?
No. Every posted edition files into a running archive at its own dated URL. It is the school's record of what went out and when, not a message that scrolls away.
Does this page cover photos and picture day?
No. Photographs as records and as a purchase live at homeroom.gallery and homeroom.pictures. This page is documents -- a composed publication or an issued record -- and is never itself a photo-delivery surface.
Is this the same as homeroom.today?
No. homeroom.today is a running, always-current board of announcements and events. This page is about a finished, dated publication reaching a link and staying in an archive -- a different shape of thing on the same platform.
The rest of the platform this page assumes
Each is its own facet, with its own page. None of them is this one.
What this page claims, and what it does not
It claims that five publication types set to a print-ready page and post as an online edition today, on the platform's own publications engine. They do.
It claims that report cards and transcripts disclose to a parent, a printed copy, or a digital credential, consent-gated at the emit call, and that a correction never silently rewrites what a family already received. Both are stated in the platform's own report-card page.
It does not claim the outbound push -- inbox, text, or call -- is live for any publication. It is early access, named as such by the platform's own bulletin page, and named as such here.
It does not claim an online-edition reader exists for a report card or a transcript. It does not.
It does not claim a price, a plan, or a delivery-time guarantee. None exists.
It does not claim a legal entitlement any consent gate creates. Mechanism only -- a school's counsel speaks to what the law requires.
If any line here stops being true, the line changes. That is the standard this page holds itself to.