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Recent updates - March 2026

This month we've made significant improvements to our Veracross integration, including behaviour writeback, and student house and photo syncing. We've also added a range of new exports, check-in improvements, and more.

Staff profile picture Ben DunfordMarch 2026 - 4 minute read

Veracross integration improvements

Available now

We've made several significant additions to our Veracross integration since our last update, providing even deeper connectivity between the two platforms.

Student houses and photos are now automatically synced from Veracross into ePraise, ensuring ePraise stays aligned with your student information system without any manual intervention. Note that to enable photos, you will need to update your Veracross API scopes and then update your site settings to turn the feature on.

Behaviour writeback is also now live. Points and demerits can now be automatically written back into Veracross, allowing staff to record in either platform depending on the school's requirements, whilst ensuring Veracross has a complete set of basic behaviour data. There are a few steps you'll need to follow to enable this, so please refer to our documentation for guidance.

Other notable improvements

Available now

As always, we've been working on many smaller improvements to enhance your experience across the platform:

  • We've added a search option for our exports.
  • We've added a 'no worries' option to our check-ins, which is selected by default when a score of 4 or 5 is given.
  • We've added a new achievements private display API option.
  • We've added a new class passes export.
  • We've added a new check-ins export.
  • We've added a new demerits by year group export.
  • We've updated the check-ins overview to include the last worry.
  • We've added a new notifications view on all user profiles, viewable by school administrators.
  • We've added a new Northern Ireland set of year group formats.
  • We've added student UPNs (or the alternative you've chosen) to all student exports.
  • We've allowed milestone thresholds up to 5 digits.
  • We've updated the "field to use for houses" setting to work across both students and staff.

Push notifications for points, demerits and homework

Coming soon

We're working on expanded push notification support for our mobile apps, which has been one of the most frequently requested features from students and parents.

Students and parents will be able to opt in to receive daily homework reminders, helping prompt them to check their planner before homework becomes due. We'll also be introducing notifications for points and demerits — these will be opt-in by default, giving students and their parents control over the notifications that matter most to them.

We'll share more details as we get closer to launch.

ePraise mobile notification preferences - new point, demerit and homework notifications coming soon

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