A school chat app with channels, clubs and video calls

One place for the whole school to talk

Connect opens with the channels a school needs already in place. Announcements carry official news from the administration and only staff can post there. General is for the whole school, the staff room keeps coordination between teachers and the office away from students, and the parents’ council brings families together with the administration and student affairs. Teachers and administrators add channels for departments, year groups and projects, and students join clubs that interest them. Unlike school messaging, which handles one-to-one questions sorted by topic, Connect is for the everyday conversation of a school community.

• Announcement channels where only staff post and everyone reads
• Public and private channels for departments, grades and projects
• Clubs and communities students can browse and join
• Direct messages between people the school allows to talk
• Announcements people acknowledge, polls, and events with RSVPs
• Ilmoria AI summaries of long conversations, rewrites and a daily brief

Voice and video calls without another app

Any conversation can become a call. Start a voice or video call with one colleague, or open a call in a channel so a department meeting or a club session happens where its messages already are. Share your screen to walk through a timetable, a report or a lesson. Incoming calls ring with a sound you choose, and in the desktop app the window comes forward so a call is never missed. Because calls run inside Ilmoria, nobody has to swap phone numbers or install a separate meeting tool, and calls stay within the school’s own accounts.

• One-to-one and group calls from any channel or direct message
• Screen sharing during a call
• A choice of ringtones, and a calm, clear in-call screen

The school decides who talks to whom

Schools have rules that ordinary chat apps ignore, so Connect follows the school’s. Administrators decide whether parents can send direct messages to staff and whether students can message each other. Students can call in clubs and community channels, while staff can call anywhere. Administrators can review private channels when there is a concern, and the school keeps the history of its conversations rather than losing it in chat groups on personal phones. Connect uses the same sign-in, roles and protections described on our security page.

• Switch parent and student direct messages on or off for the whole school
• Administrator review of private channels
• Roles from the platform: no separate accounts to create

On the desktop, in the browser and on phones

Connect works in any modern browser and adapts to phone screens, the same way the rest of Ilmoria does on mobile. For staff who spend the day at a computer, the Ilmoria app for Windows and Mac keeps Connect a click away: new messages arrive as real notifications, the unread count shows on the taskbar or Dock, and the app keeps running in the background when its window is closed. Everything is in Arabic and English, with the whole interface turning right to left in Arabic.