Every autumn your admissions office prints a glossy prospectus, seals it inside a padded envelope, and posts it to a family living three time zones away, hoping it lands before the entrance exam deadline. Sometimes the parcel is late and the family enrols somewhere closer to home. Flipbooks AI turns that same prospectus into a flipbook that opens from one link on any phone or laptop, so a parent overseas sees your dormitories, meets your houseparents on video, and walks the campus the moment you press send.
Why the posted prospectus slows admissions down
A boarding school lives or dies by the impression its viewbook makes on a parent who has never set foot on your grounds. When that impression depends on the post, you lose control of it. Airmail to Hong Kong or Lagos can take two weeks, and by then your open day has passed and the entrance exam is next Tuesday. Print runs also freeze your tuition sheet and term dates in ink, so the moment a fee is revised or a matriculation date shifts, every glossy copy on the shelf is quietly wrong. Reprinting is slow, and the recycling bin fills with last year's dormitory photos.
Turn the viewbook into one shareable link
With Flipbooks AI you upload the PDF your design team already produced and get back an interactive flipbook that turns page by page like the printed booklet. You paste the link into the reply an admissions officer sends the minute a family enquires. No app, no download, no courier. A day student's parents across town and a boarding family across an ocean open the exact same link and see the exact same campus.
Embed a campus tour the photos cannot show
A still image of a dormitory tells a family the room exists. A short walk-through film tells them their child will belong there. Because the flipbook opens in a browser, you can embed a campus tour video straight into the spread, so a parent watching from another country hears the boarding house at supper, sees the dining hall, and follows a houseparent down the corridor without booking a flight for an open day.
Keep tuition, financial aid, and term dates honest
When the bursar revises a tuition figure or the registrar publishes new term dates, you swap the PDF behind the link and every family who ever received it now sees the corrected page. The link never changes, so the enrolment email you sent in September still works in January. Financial aid deadlines stay current without a single reprint.
| Admissions stage | Posted prospectus | Link-shared flipbook |
|---|
| First enquiry | Mailed over several days | Sent in seconds |
| Overseas family | Slow, unreliable airmail | Opens instantly abroad |
| Tuition change | Reprint the whole run | Swap the PDF, link stays |
| Campus tour | Flat photographs only | Embedded walk-through video |
| Open day follow-up | Another envelope posted | Resend the same link |
Here is how an admissions team builds one before the next open day:
- Export your existing prospectus or viewbook as a single PDF.
- Upload it to Flipbooks AI and let it become a page-flip flipbook.
- Drop in your campus tour video and link the financial aid page.
- Copy the one link into your enquiry reply template and your website.
- Update the PDF whenever tuition, houseparents, or term dates change.
One boarding registrar told us she stopped printing entirely after her first overseas matriculation came from a family who never received a physical prospectus at all.
The documents a boarding office shares this way rarely stop at the prospectus:
- Prospectus: your flagship booklet, now flipping page by page in any browser.
- Viewbook: the photo-led piece that sells boarding life, with video woven in.
- Tuition sheet: fees and financial aid that update the instant you swap the file.
- Campus guide: dormitory maps and houseparent introductions for new arrivals.
- Term dates: enrolment and entrance exam deadlines that never go stale in print.
Embed the flipbook on your admissions page so families read the prospectus without leaving your site:
<iframe src="https://flipbooksai.com/viewer?book=your-flipbook" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Design the booklet itself with our college prospectus maker, lay out a shorter open-day piece with the school brochure designer, then browse more use cases for schools like yours.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can overseas families open the flipbook without an app?
Yes. Any browser on any phone, tablet, or laptop opens the link. There is nothing to install, so a parent in another time zone reads your prospectus the minute your admissions officer replies to their enquiry.
What happens to the link when tuition changes?
The link stays the same. You upload the corrected PDF and every family who already holds the link sees the new tuition and term dates on their next visit, with no reprint and no second envelope.
Can I add a campus tour video to the prospectus?
Yes. You can embed a walk-through of the dormitory, dining hall, and grounds directly in the spread, so a boarding family experiences an open day from home before they ever travel for the entrance exam.
Ready before your next enrolment cycle? create your flipbook and share your campus with the next family today.
