Choose a better way to work: Announcing 7 powerful new Arbor features

Maddie Kilminster - 6 October, 2020

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Choose a better way to work: Announcing 7 powerful new Arbor features

Today we’re announcing Arbor’s biggest product release ever, with seven new features designed to help you work faster, smarter and collaborate more across your school or trust.  Working hand-in-hand with school staff like you, we’re constantly improving and evolving Arbor to meet the new demands facing staff. This wave of brand new tools forms part

Today we’re announcing Arbor’s biggest product release ever, with seven new features designed to help you work faster, smarter and collaborate more across your school or trust. 

Working hand-in-hand with school staff like you, we’re constantly improving and evolving Arbor to meet the new demands facing staff. This wave of brand new tools forms part of our vision to make a measurable difference to the working life of school staff everywhere. 

With schools facing perhaps the most challenging term for decades, we’ve designed these features specifically to give a boost to everyone – from Teachers, to Office Staff, to Chief Executives. 

For Teaching Staff…

My Classroom (Out now!)

My Classroom is our brand new, all-in-one classroom management tool. Build flexible seating plans, take the register and record behaviour incidents all from one place for this first time (no other MIS does this!) 

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My Homepage (Coming in November)

My Homepage will be a new personalised space within Arbor for Teaching Staff which keeps you up-to-date with all your students at a glance. Plus, live alerts and to-do lists will help you speed through admin between lessons.

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For School and Trust Leaders…

Free Arbor Insight reports (Out now!)

To help you get started on your school improvement planning this term, we’ve released a complete set of our popular past performance reports (worth £300-400) exclusively for free. 

With no new DfE performance data this year, free access to Arbor’s most popular reports from 2019 exams will give you a reliable picture of your prior attainment data to help you see where to focus your efforts this year. 

For Academies, we’ve also created a few Academies’ Financial Benchmarking Report to help you kickstart your budget planning. 

Sign up to get your free reports here.

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Understanding Your MAT Report (Coming later this month)

The latest version of the Understanding Your MAT Report will contain the most up-to-date contextual information about your trust. Together with your past ASP performance measures, your trust’s size and local demographics will help you understand your MAT’s unique strengths and challenges compared to others in England.

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For MATs and larger schools…

As schools and MATs have grown in size and complexity over the past few years, we’ve been building out our product and support to help School and MAT Leaders deal with the challenges of scale:

Advanced Support (Out now!)

With Advanced Support, you’ll be able to speak to a Success Analyst who knows your set-up intimately so they’ll be able to get to the bottom of any technical issues you have faster, and give you tailored solutions. Plus, they’ll save you valuable time by setting up automatic reports for you with exactly the information you need to see regularly, such as a weekly attendance report.

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Arbor Enterprise (Coming in February 2021)

Introducing a brand new toolkit designed to help you simplify your system setup and get more insight from your data at scale.

  • Run a joined-up back office and save time by syncing your HR and teaching & learning systems with Arbor 
  • Customise your data any way you like with PowerBI export capabilities
  • Use Arbor staff usage reports to identify strategic improvements and best practice to standardise ways of working across your organisation

For all staff… 

Google & Microsoft SSO and 2FA (Out now!)

With Single Sign On and Two-Factor Authentication, staff will be able to log in securely to their email, virtual learning environment and Arbor MIS at the same time – with only one password to remember! With the possibility of local lockdowns or staff having to isolate, these features will free staff up to access their systems from wherever they’re working.

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We’re committed to working with our schools to make sure that with Arbor, schools really do work better. This new release is packed full of features to take the hassle out of admin, give your staff time back, and ultimately help your school be ready for whatever tomorrow brings.

We’d love to speak to you about our new features, so get in touch if you want to find out more. 

New to Arbor?

To find out more about moving to Arbor MIS, get in touch on tellmemore@arbor-education.com, arrange a demo or join a free webinar.

Already using Arbor?

Find out more about our brand new features from your Account Manager on accountmanagers@arbor-education.com.

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