PCR Educator notification triggers can now fire on a school-calendar rhythm: once per marking period, once per semester, or up to N times per academic year. The new period-aware quotas sit alongside the existing rolling-day floor, so schools control exactly how often a parent or staff member hears from the system.

What's new

"Maximum fires per" period quotas. A new dropdown on every trigger caps notifications by Marking Period, Semester, or Academic Year. Combine it with "Maximum number of fires" to express patterns like "up to 3 escalation emails per semester."

"Minimum days between fires" (renamed for clarity). The legacy frequency floor now reads exactly as it works. Period quotas and day floors apply independently, so a single trigger can be both "at most 3 per semester" and "at least 14 days apart."

"School division for period." Students sit in many divisions at once, so the admin explicitly picks which division's calendar defines the period boundaries. The dropdown appears only when the scope needs it, requires a selection, and includes three layers of safeguards so a misconfigured trigger never silently skips suppression.

Framework-level coverage. Attendance, gradebook, discipline, balance-low, action reminders, and any future trigger type inherit the new options automatically, with no per-type configuration work.

Why it matters

Suppression now aligns to the actual school calendar. Configure "semester, max 3 fires" once and a 4 / 7 / 9 absence escalation ladder resets cleanly when the semester turns over. Parents see the right number of messages at the right cadence, and admins stop approximating "a semester" with a day count that drifts from the calendar. Existing triggers keep running exactly as they do today, because the new options are additive and opt-in per trigger.

A few ways to talk about it

• Notification triggers now speak your school's calendar: once per marking period, once per semester, or up to N times per academic year.
• Configure escalation ladders in one place. 4 absences, 7 absences, 9 absences. Three emails per semester, not three hundred.
• Two independent rules, one trigger: minimum days between sends, plus maximum sends per period. Both apply, both protect parents from email overload.

Available now to all PCR Educator schools. Your account team can walk you through the new dropdowns whenever you're ready.