Hall of fame
Nominated by old pupils
Nominations arrive through the contact form under their own topic, and the committee decides who is added.
Use case · School heritage archive
Your history, kept with care.
The school's story is in a filing cabinet, the magazine archive and old pupils' shoeboxes. AlumDeck gives it a home: a timeline, an In Memoriam page that waits for the family's consent, a hall of fame, and a photo archive old pupils add to and a moderator checks. $49 a year, on the school's own hosting.
Things you can check for yourself
Check it
A 60-year timeline
Riverside College, 1966 to 2026, in the demo.
Open the timelineCheck it
In Memoriam, with consent
Two tributes in the demo. An entry cannot go live until family consent is ticked.
Read themCheck it
A hall of fame
Notable alumni with class years, professions and citations.
See the hallCheck it
An archive by era
Albums from the founding years to the Diamond Jubilee.
Browse the archiveCheck it
What it will not do
No face tagging and no video uploads. The full list.
LimitationsCheck it
$49 a year
Every heritage page is in the licence; nothing is an add-on.
Pricing
The problem
The history is there. It is just scattered.
The campus, 1966
Founders Day dinner, 1976
Sample archive: The Hall, 1974
Caps in the air, 2026
Jubilee night, 2026
Most of a school's history is not in any official file. It is in albums, in the backs of drawers and on the phones of people who were there. The people who remember the first decades are in their seventies and eighties, and a few more photographs are lost every year.
AlumDeck does not replace an archivist. It gives the school somewhere public to tell the story, a way for old pupils to send what they have, and a moderator between their upload and the website.
Remember · built in
Four pages for the whole story.
None of the six alumni platforms we compared lists a history timeline, an In Memoriam page or a hall of fame. AlumDeck has all three, plus a photo archive. The entries below are from the demo's invented college.
- 1966
The doors open
A converted grain mill, 140 students and eleven teachers.
- 1976
The association
Twenty-three former students and a constitution on two sides of paper.
- 1996
The first scholarships
Endowed by alumni for students who could not afford the fees.
- 2026
Riverside at 60
The Diamond Jubilee year. The next entry is yours.
In Memoriam
Asked for by families
Families write in the same way. The tribute waits until their consent is ticked.
The archive
Albums tagged by era
Old pupils send photographs; a moderator checks each one before it joins an album.
What it does
The parts an archive actually uses.
Timeline
A timeline where a year can read "1960s-70s"
Each entry has a year, a title and the story. The year is free text, so an era you cannot date exactly still has its place. The timeline is a public page with its own search title and description.
- Add entries in any order
- Photographs and longer histories sit alongside it
- The whole history section switches on or off as one module
In Memoriam
Published with the family's consent
An entry cannot go live until its family consent box is ticked. Requests arrive through the contact form's In Memoriam option, so someone can check with the family before anything appears.
- A tribute, the class year and the dates
- Nothing is published until consent is recorded
- Written and edited only by staff with the heritage area
Hall of fame
A hall of fame members can nominate for
Notable alumni with a photograph, a profession, a class year and a short citation, in the order you choose. Nominations arrive through the contact form's nomination option; the committee decides.
- Public, with its own search title
- Person data for search engines
- Order the inductees by hand
Nominated by members
Chosen by the committee
Photo archive
Old pupils add the photographs; a moderator publishes
Members upload up to 10 historic photos at a time, each with a caption and an era. Nothing appears until someone with the right area publishes it into an album, or rejects it.
- JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 8 MB each
- Albums tagged by era, with a cover and a lightbox
- Old magazines and programmes can go in as scanned photos
Documents
Papers for members, pages for everyone
Minutes, accounts and notices go in the members-only Association section, stored outside the public folder. Longer histories, the house list or the story of the school song can be ordinary pages at their own address.
- Scans sent through the contact form's archive option arrive as attachments
- A media library with alt text for every image
- Site search covers pages, news, events and albums
Members only
Association
Minutes, 1976Scan
ConstitutionPDF
Accounts 2025PDF
Notice of AGM31 Oct
Magazine indexPage
Founders listScan
Your first month
The first month, one decade at a time.
A plan for a heritage volunteer and one member of staff, a couple of hours a week between them.
Week 1: a skeleton timeline
Ten entries from the prospectus, the school magazine and the founding papers: when it opened, the first leavers, the buildings, the anniversaries. Use eras like "1960s-70s" where the date is uncertain.
Week 2: agree the In Memoriam policy
Who can ask for a notice, who checks with the family, what goes in it. Put the policy on the page itself, and add entries only once consent is ticked.
Week 3: ask for the photographs
A news post and an email asking old pupils to send what they have, with a caption and a decade. Set aside half an hour a week to publish them.
Week 4: the first hall of fame
Three or four inductees with a short citation each, and an invitation to nominate more through the contact form.
The honest part
Where it stops for an archive.
- Tagging people in photographs, or searching by face.
- Uploading video files.
- Resizing, rotating or making thumbnails of photos on upload. They are stored as sent.
- Albums made by members. Members send photos; staff make the albums.
- A document library with folders and its own search. Planned: release 1.5
- Searching the text inside scanned documents.
The rest is on the full list of what AlumDeck does not do, and each planned item is on the public roadmap.
Questions
About the heritage pages
Who can add to the archive?
Signed-in members upload historic photos from the members' area, up to 10 at a time with a caption and an era, and nothing appears until a member of staff publishes it into an album. Anyone can send scans through the contact form's archive option, as attachments the committee can read.
How does family consent work for In Memoriam?
Each entry has a family consent box, and it cannot go live until the box is ticked. Requests arrive through the contact form's In Memoriam option, so someone can check with the family before anything appears.
Can the timeline show dates we are not sure of?
Yes. The year on a timeline entry is free text, so "1960s-70s" or "about 1948" works as well as 1966.
Can old pupils nominate someone for the hall of fame?
Yes, through the contact form's nomination option. The committee decides, and each inductee gets a photograph, a profession, a class year and a short citation.
Which of the archive pages are public?
The timeline, In Memoriam, the hall of fame and the photo albums are public pages with their own search titles. The directory and the association's papers are for signed-in members only.
How much storage do the photographs need?
Photos are stored as uploaded, up to 8 MB each, on your hosting. AlumDeck has no storage cap and does not resize images, so a large archive needs a hosting plan with room for it.
Also for
The history, and the people in it.
Schools
One member of staff, a spreadsheet of leavers and a cupboard of photographs. A renewal nobody has to defend.
For schoolsClass reunion website
RSVPs against the hall capacity, free QR tickets, check-in at the door and a room for each year.
Plan a reunionAlumni fundraising website
Appeals with running totals, every gift recorded and a numbered receipt emailed to each donor.
Run an appeal
Walk through sixty years of sample history.
The demo college has a timeline from 1966, two In Memoriam tributes, a hall of fame and an archive by decade. It puts itself back every night.
Sign-in details on the demo pageResets every night