đ˘ Teacher Messaging & Communication Architecture
Your Personal Pages and Classes represent your public academic profile. In the standalone Edlio CMS, teachers cannot send direct one-off or bulk emails. Instead, website visitors subscribe to your pages to receive an automated daily digest email sent at 5:30 PM local school time, and subscriber emails automatically build your CMS Contact Lists for structured classroom Newsletters. If your school uses Edlio Mass Communication, administrators can additionally grant teachers access to send multi-channel messages (Email, SMS Text, and Voice) directly to their Classrooms and authorized Groups.
What are Personal Pages?
Personal Pages are dedicated web pages that individual staff members and teachers create and manage within your school's website. When visitors search for a teacher in the public Staff Directory or click a teacher's name on a department page, they are directed to that staff member's public Personal Pages.
Teachers use Personal Pages to maintain their professional online presence, share a classroom welcome message, post homework updates, and provide downloadable syllabi, class schedules, and educational resources.
The Personal Homepage: What Visitors See
Every teacher's Personal Pages section begins with a primary page that acts as their homepage. In the CMS administrator panel, this page is titled "Home" by default, but you can rename it to match your preferences (e.g., "Welcome to Room 204").
The public view of your personal homepage automatically aggregates your profile details, classes, and recent announcements into a unified presentation:
Key elements on your personal homepage
When visitors access your personal homepage, several integrated components appear automatically:
Teacher Profile & Contact Card: Displayed prominently in the top right sidebar with your staff name, profile photo, classroom location, and a secure Send email contact link. Visitors can send inquiries through a protected contact form without exposing your raw email address to automated web scrapers.
Subscribe Button: Located directly below your contact information. Parents, students, and community members can click Subscribe to sign up for automated updates. Subscriptions trigger an automated daily email digest sent at 5:30 PM local school time whenever you publish new posts, assignments, or page updates.
Welcome & Introduction Section: The main content area of your homepage. Use this space to share your teaching philosophy, office hours, classroom expectations, supply requirements, and grading criteria.
Classes & Course Links: The CMS automatically displays your active classes and academic sections on your homepage, allowing students and parents to jump directly to specific class syllabi, due dates, and homework assignments.
Recent Posts & Announcements: Live post updates created in your CMS dashboard appear chronologically, highlighting upcoming exams, project deadlines, and classroom news.
Section Navigation Menu: If you create additional child pages (such as "AP Biology Syllabus", "Lab Safety Guidelines", or "Helpful Links"), they automatically appear in the sidebar navigation menu, allowing visitors to browse your materials easily.
How visitor subscriptions work
When parents or students click Subscribe on your personal homepage:
Automated 5:30 PM Daily Digest: Subscribers receive an email notification when you publish a new post, create an assignment, or update a page. To prevent inbox clutter, the CMS bundles all updates into a single consolidated daily digest sent at 5:30 PM local school time.
Automatic Newsletter Contact Lists: Every person who subscribes to your personal pages or classes is automatically added to an auto-populated subscriber contact list in your CMS dashboard. You can select this list in Newsletters to compose and dispatch structured classroom email broadcasts.
Managing your personal homepage in the CMS
To manage what appears on your personal homepage:
In your CMS admin dashboard hamburger menu, navigate to Sections (or Pages).
Select the Personal Pages tab to view your page list.
Click your main page (labeled Home or your custom title) to edit content blocks, upload class documents, or adjust page layout.
Click + New Page to create additional sub-pages for specific subjects, resources, or clubs.
Click the eye icon or Preview to review how your updates appear to visitors on the live website.
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