An admissions decision at an international school often happens across two countries, three languages, and a moving box that has not been unpacked yet. Your prospectus has to survive all of that, and a printed one rarely does. Flipbooks AI lets you send the whole thing as a single link that opens the same bilingual, page-flip viewbook on a relocating parent's phone in Doha or a grandparent's tablet back home.
Why a printed prospectus fails an expat family
Expat parents are rarely sitting still when they choose a school. They are between a lease abroad and a container in transit, comparing an IB curriculum school in one city against a boarding option in another. A courier packet takes days, gets held at customs, and arrives with a fee schedule that changed the week it shipped. By then a competing day school has already emailed a link the mother could read in her mother tongue on the plane.
A flipbook removes the border. You publish the prospectus once, share the link, and every family opens the current version. Swap the PDF when your term calendar or accreditation status updates, and the same link shows the new pages without a reprint or a re-send.
Build the bilingual viewbook once
Most international schools already produce the source documents: an admissions prospectus, a curriculum guide, a viewbook, and a fee schedule. You do not rebuild them. You export each to PDF and let the flipbook stitch a reading experience families actually finish.
Pages that carry both languages
Lay the English spread beside its translation so a parent reading in their mother tongue never loses the thread. A bilingual prospectus signals, before the tour, that your campus is built for arriving families rather than local ones alone. Admissions leads like Priya Menon keep one link per feeder region so the first page a family sees is already in the language they think in.
A campus video parents can actually watch
Relocating families cannot visit before they commit. Drop a short campus walkthrough into the flipbook so a boarding parent sees the dorm, the cocurricular fields, and a lesson in progress from wherever they are packing. The video sits inside the same link as the prospectus, so nothing lives in a separate download.
Steps to send your prospectus abroad
Your admissions team already owns every source file. Turning them into one link families can open abroad takes an afternoon.
- Export the source documents to one PDF. Put the admissions prospectus, curriculum guide, and fee schedule together, English and translated spreads side by side.
- Upload it to Flipbooks AI. The pages get the page-flip effect on their own, so nothing has to be designed twice.
- Add a campus walkthrough video. Drop in a short tour so boarding and day-school families see the dorms, the fields, and a lesson before they commit.
- Share the one link with families and agents. Paste it into your enrollment email, a WhatsApp reply, or the agent portal for each feeder region.
- Swap the PDF when details change. Replace the file after a term calendar or accreditation update and the same link shows the new pages to everyone.
One relocating family, one link, one language they trust: that is the difference between an inquiry and a signed enrollment.
| Delivery method | Reaches an expat parent | Stays current | Shows campus video |
|---|
| Couriered printed viewbook | Days, if customs clears | Frozen at print date | No |
| Email PDF attachment | Blocked by mailbox limits | Manual re-send | No |
| Flipbook link | Instantly on any device | Swap PDF, link updates | Yes |
Embed the prospectus on your admissions page
Drop the viewer straight into your admissions site so a family browsing your campus tab reads the prospectus without leaving. Paste this snippet where you want the flipbook to appear:
<iframe
src="https://flipbooksai.com/viewer?book=your-flipbook"
width="100%"
height="640"
style="border:0"
title="International school admissions prospectus"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
What to load into the flipbook
- Admissions prospectus: the flagship viewbook, English and mother-tongue spreads paired page by page.
- Curriculum guide: how your IB curriculum and cocurricular program map across each term.
- Fee schedule: day school and boarding costs laid out clearly, updated by swapping the PDF.
- Term calendar: start dates, holidays, and exam windows an arriving family plans a move around.
- Accreditation summary: the bodies that recognize your campus, reassuring a parent enrolling from another system.
For page-design help before you publish, the college prospectus maker and the school brochure designer both hand off cleanly to a flipbook. Lucas Fontaine, who runs viewbooks for a K-12 campus, keeps a template ready and refreshes only the fee schedule each admissions cycle. Browse more use cases to see how neighboring schools share theirs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can the prospectus really show two languages at once?
Yes. Build your PDF with the English spread and its translation side by side, and the flipbook flips through both. Parents read in their mother tongue while the admissions team keeps a single source file.
Will a relocating family need an app to open the link?
No. The link opens in any browser on any phone, tablet, or laptop, so a parent between countries reads the prospectus with nothing to download or install.
How do I update the fee schedule after boarding rates change?
Swap the PDF behind the link. Every family who already has the link sees the new fee schedule and term calendar the next time they open it, with no reprint and no fresh email.
Can we keep scholarship or sibling discount pages private?
Yes. Put a password on that flipbook and only the families or agents you give it to can open it. Many schools keep the main viewbook open to everyone and hold discount and bursary terms behind a second, protected link.
Will the prospectus open on a slow connection abroad?
Usually, yes. It loads in the browser a spread at a time instead of as one heavy download, so a parent on patchy hotel wifi can start reading right away. You can also keep an offline copy for a family in transit.
Can we embed the viewbook on our admissions page?
Yes. Paste the embed snippet into your admissions or campus page and families flip through the prospectus without leaving your site. It sits beside your inquiry form, so a parent can read and then enquire in the same visit.
Can we tell whether a family reached the boarding pages?
Yes. View analytics show which spreads hold attention, so admissions can see whether an inquiry read the boarding section and the fee schedule or stopped at the cover. That tells the team what to lead with on the follow-up call.
Can each agent or feeder region get its own link?
Yes. Build one flipbook per region with the right translated spreads and fee currency, then hand each agent their own link. Every version lives in the same account, and each one updates by swapping its own PDF.
Does the QR code work on a recruitment fair stand?
Yes. Every flipbook carries a QR code, so a family at a fair scans your stand and walks away with the whole prospectus on their phone. Nothing heavy to carry home in hand luggage, and the link keeps working after the fair.
How long should an admissions prospectus be?
Twenty to forty spreads covers most campuses. Lead with the curriculum and student life, keep the fee schedule and term calendar near the back, and hold each spread to one idea. Parents skim on a phone long before they book a tour.
Ready to send one bilingual link to every arriving family? create your flipbook and hand admissions a prospectus that crosses borders without a courier.
