Between the final bell and dinner, students are at practice, in after-school programs, on buses. Schools run that stretch on paper rosters, sideline group texts, and PDFs taped to the cafeteria door. Families mostly run it on faith.
The newest family of Bloomz modules puts the after-bell hours — and the everyday campus logistics around them — on the same platform as the rest of the day.
Athletics & Clubs: from final whistle to public scoreboard in one tap
On Bloomz Athletics & Clubs, a team is a Bloomz group — so rosters, team messaging, media, and forms already work, translated, with the same privacy rules as everything else. Games and practices are calendar events families can subscribe to once and never re-import. And when the coach enters the final score from the sideline, it’s live on your public website and no-login app immediately, filterable by sport.
No second athletics platform, no webmaster updating scores on Sunday night. The chess invitational works exactly the same way.
Extended Day: the handoff nobody has to remember
Extended Day runs your before- and after-school programs with rosters, capacity, a live check-in/out board, and tuition on a recurring Bloomz Pay plan.
The signature move: when dismissal marks a student departed with the After School method, Bloomz checks them into their program automatically — same event, no double entry — as long as Dismissal and Extended Day are both on and the student is on the program roster. Program pickup verifies against the family’s authorized adults, exactly like the car line does. The 3-to-6 p.m. window, where most platforms lose the student entirely, can close.
Campus Life: the small stuff, finally on the platform
Some school chores were never big enough to buy software for, so they lived on paper forever. A family of light, focused modules fixes that:
- Meals & Menus — publish menus (structured items or your existing monthly PDF) to the app, your website, and the public app in one motion. When your school publishes a menu with allergen tags, your view flags items that match the allergies on your child’s file, computed privately on the server. It’s a heads-up, not a substitute for reading the label, and PDF-only menus get no flags. A menu PDF can’t know it’s Maya’s mom reading; a tagged menu can flag what matches Maya’s file.
- Library — visits and checkouts in a simple log with overdue flags. Deliberately light: no catalog project, no fines.
- Substitutes — a sub gets staff access to the class’s hall pass, check-in and pickup tools for exactly the coverage window, lesson plan attached, and the access expires by itself. Nothing to remember to revoke.
- Tutoring Sessions — logged in seconds, and when a session matches an open Thrive intervention it attaches to the case as progress evidence.
- Volunteer Hours — automatic from visitor sign-outs, plus coordinator entries, exportable for recognition night.
- Bus Status — staff tap Departed and Arrived per route, and every family on the route gets the push (in English, Spanish or Arabic at launch), resolved from the same dismissal plans the car line uses. Staff-reported in v1 — no GPS, and no student location collected, ever.
One record, morning to evening
Each of these is small on purpose. Together they finish the thought: arrival to pickup — and now well past it — on one student record, in the app families already open. That’s the whole-day platform: communication tools can’t see the school day, safety tools can’t reach the family, and Bloomz has both ends.
Everything here is new for 2026-27; most of it is off by default and enabled per school (Volunteer Hours comes on with Coordination). The full walkthrough is at bloomz.com/whats-new-2026.