Try a change before you save it

Edit a school fact and see exactly which family answers change — before anything reaches a parent.

Changing a fact about your school changes what Elira tells families. School info now lets you see that change before you commit to it.

Scroll to Try a change before you save it at the bottom of School info.

How it works

1. Edit any of the facts in that panel — deadlines, office hours, the office phone, required documents, what happens after registration, and so on.
2. Press Check what changes. Elira answers a set of real family questions twice: once using your saved facts, once using your edit.
3. You get every answer that moved, side by side — *Now* and *After you publish*.
4. Press Publish when you're happy. Nothing reaches a family until you do.

Publish stays locked until you've looked

The Publish button does not work until you have run a check on the exact text currently in the boxes. Change a single character afterwards and it locks again, with a note telling you to re-check. That is deliberate: the whole point of the panel is that you never change what a parent is told without first seeing what changed.

Reading the result

Each question is labelled with what your edit did to it:

• Elira can now answer this — you filled in a gap. This is the good one.
• The answer changed — same question, different facts in the reply. Check it reads the way you'd say it.
• Same facts, different wording — nothing real changed; Elira just phrased it differently. Safe to ignore.
• Elira will stop answering this — your edit removed something she was standing on, so this question will now go to your office instead. If any answer shows this, Publish asks you a second time before it saves.

You'll also see Elira now knows / no longer knows / Changed, which lists the specific facts that moved, and a count of how many answers were re-checked. A count of zero is normal and correct — it means you edited something no family answer depends on, so there was nothing to re-check.

Ask your own question

There's a box for one question of your own, phrased the way a parent would ask it. It's answered with your saved facts and with your edit, so you see both. Useful for the question you actually get asked twenty times a week.

Why an answer says "goes to your office instead"

That isn't a failure. Elira only answers from facts you have published, and when she doesn't have the fact she hands the question to your staff rather than guessing. An answer moving to your office is her working as designed — but if it's a question you'd rather she handled, the panel has just told you exactly which fact to fill in.