Autumn Term in review

Anna Christie - 4 December, 2023

Product release | Product updates

Category : Blog

Autumn Term in review

As the nights draw in, it’s getting chilly outside and we start thinking about the festive break, let’s take a look back at some of the amazing features we released to Arbor MIS and MAT MIS this Autumn Term!

In the Autumn Term our improvements and new releases focused on three key themes:

• Maximise success for schools and trusts
• Further differentiate our secondary school MIS
• Increase MAT central team efficiency 

September

• No more manually adding your Qualification Offering each year using QAN codes! Copy your Qualification Offering from the previous year quickly and easily. No need to manually add each time using QAN codes. Learn more here
• Want to add summative mark comments to your report cards? Now you can. Report on your Summative Mark Comments in the Custom Report Writer and then pull them into your Custom Report Cards! Learn more here

October

• Do your parents ring your school to ask what they’ve selected for their child’s meal choice? Parents can see which meal they chose after the deadline has passed, making it easier for them and stops multiple questions to your school office. Learn more here

• Change your Custom Report Writer report to look at your next assessment period using the Bulk Edit Assessment Periods button. Learn more here

• Manage pay scales at the MAT level. Create your schools’ pay scales without needing to log in to each school site. Update your pay scales in MAT MIS, then push them down to your schools with the click of a button. Learn more here

November

• Create beautiful charts directly from your Arbor tables. Choose from an array of visualisations to create everything from pie charts showing student lunch choices to bar graphs illustrating attendance by year group straight from your raw data tables in Arbor. Learn more here

• We’ve launched a brand new integration with NFER Tests. Our integration with the National Foundation for Educational Research’s free online analysis tool means you can now see assessment data in Arbor MIS and MAT MIS, giving you the full picture of student progress across your trust: NFER and Arbor Integration. Learn more here

• Identifying outstanding payments just got even easier for parents. Parents can now see the total amount they’ve outstanding for all payments across all top-up accounts, clubs and trips, on their homepage. They can click on the figure to view a breakdown and to see accounts that are running low. Learn more here

• View, analyse, and report to your Governors and Ofsted on how inclusive your trips offering is to key demographic groups. Learn more here

• Bulk update programme of study enrolments, ensuring data accuracy for funding returns, especially when you’re dealing with a large number of students. Learn more here

December

• We’re making it easier to find your way around Arbor! We’ve added breadcrumbs to all pages in Arbor, so you can see exactly where you are in the system, and navigate between pages more easily. Learn more here

To get the latest feature news and releases visit our Change Log, and don’t forget to view what we’re working on via our product roadmap.