Communication Platform for Schools That Stays Connected to the Work
Orbital's Communication Hub is a communication platform for schools that brings email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app messaging into one connected system—so teams can manage parent communication, staff coordination, and school-wide messaging without switching tools.
More than messages sent from somewhere else
School communication works best when it is connected to the context behind it. Orbital's Communication Hub helps schools manage outreach, reminders, and follow-up from within the platform, so teams can communicate clearly without relying on disconnected systems or manual workarounds.
Parent Teacher Communication Without Disconnected Tools
Keep families informed with communication tied directly to student records, billing, and workflows instead of scattered across separate apps.
What the Communication Hub covers
Multi-Channel Messaging
Send email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app messages from one place.
Family Communication
Keep parents and guardians informed with communication tied to the records and workflows behind the message.
School-Wide Outreach
Manage broad announcements and updates without depending on separate communication platforms.
Automated Reminders
Support reminders for forms, payments, deadlines, and other important follow-up moments.
Staff Coordination
Help internal teams stay aligned with clearer communication across operational workflows.
Connected Context
Keep communication tied to the platform so messages feel timely, accurate, and relevant.
What the Communication Hub helps your school manage
Orbital's Communication Hub is designed to make school communication more consistent, more manageable, and more connected to the rest of daily operations.
Email messaging
SMS messaging
Push notifications
In-app messaging
School-wide announcements
Family outreach
Staff communication
Automated reminders
Fewer disconnected messaging tools
When communication lives outside the system, follow-up gets harder
Many schools rely on separate messaging tools that are disconnected from student records, billing, and operational workflows. Orbital brings communication into the platform so schools can reach people more clearly and manage follow-up with less friction.
Orbital brings those core functions together so teams can move faster with more confidence.
Connected to the rest of Orbital
The Communication Hub stays connected to student information, billing, learning, and operational workflows so schools can communicate with better timing, better context, and less duplication.
Built for the people keeping everyone informed
Designed for school leaders, administrative teams, admissions staff, finance teams, and educators.
Common Questions
A few quick answers for schools that are just getting started.
Orbital's Communication Hub helps schools send clear, targeted communication to families and staff from the same platform where student and family records already live.
Orbital supports branded email templates, merge fields, in-app notifications, admissions emails, magic-link messages, reference reminders, and real-time notification workflows.
Yes. The Communication Hub is being built around audience targeting, so schools can send messages by grade, enrollment status, missing documents, unpaid balances, or other useful filters.
Yes. Orbital's communication strategy is to keep messages tied to the relevant family, student, or workflow so staff can see context instead of hunting through inboxes.
Yes. Orbital already supports real-time notifications for items like report card revisions, attendance alerts, and nurse visits.
Yes. The roadmap includes a rich email composer, branded templates, scheduled sends, delivery tracking, reusable templates, and Orbi-assisted message drafting.
A Better Way to Manage School Communication Across One Platform
When messaging is connected to the system behind the work, schools can communicate more clearly, follow up more consistently, and reduce the friction that comes with disconnected tools.