What’s new in Autumn Term? And what’s coming up?

Anna Christie - 6 November, 2023

Product release | Product updates

Category : Blog

What’s new in Autumn Term? And what’s coming up?

As we pass the halfway mark of the Autumn Term, let’s look back at some of the exciting releases and improvements that we’ve made to Arbor in the last few months and also look forward to what’s coming next.

–

Maximise success for schools and trusts 

Through improvements to our user experience, we want to make exploring Arbor easier and make sure you’re seeing and using everything our MIS has to offer. In the first half of the Autumn Term, we’ve made some great improvements to tables in Arbor:

• Cut, paste, and delete several cells in a table at once by selecting a range of cells and pressing the backspace or delete keys
• New columns available in key built-in reports, from a Registration Form column in the Students table to a Type column in the Internal Exclusion Statistics table to an Event column to the Emergency Alert Report table to see where the alert was triggered
• Wrap your table header and cell text in your Census Summary Inspection, you can scroll to the right if there’s not enough space to fit everything on-screen
• Create an Ad-Hoc Intervention on all tables where you can already add an intervention using the Bulk Action button

Arbor also now have an exclusive integration with NFER’s free online analysis tool which lets you see NFER assessment data in Arbor MIS and MAT MIS, giving you the full picture of student progress across your trust. Learn more here

–

Coming this Half Term to help with usability: 

• Create charts with an array of visualisations, from pie charts showing student lunch choices to bar graphs illustrating attendance by year group. Tables to Charts functionality will be available throughout your MIS, wherever you have a table with numeric values. This is now live! Click here to out more here.
• Pay for multiple items quicker with the new basket functionality coming to the Arbor App very soon!

–

Further differentiate our secondary school MIS

As part of our ongoing secondary school enhancements to give you time back and increase admin efficiency, we’ve made some great improvements to our exam and assessment modules. Did you know you can now:

• Copy your Qualification Offering from the previous year quickly and easily. No need to manually add each time using QAN codes. Learn more here 
• Report on your Summative Mark Comments in the Custom Report Writer and then pull them into your Custom Report Cards! 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 –

–

Coming this Half Term: 

• View, analyse, and report to your Governors and Ofsted on how inclusive your trips offering is to key demographic groups
• Bulk update programme of study enrolments, ensuring data accuracy for funding returns, especially when you’re dealing with a large number of students
• Automate your exam fee management process and give you an easy-to-use interface to manage exam fees

–

Increase MAT central team efficiency

To help trusts with the challenge of how to grow sustainably and efficiently we’re building more tools that help MATs centralise more processes and workflows: 

• Manage your schools’ pay scales without needing to log in to each individual 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

–

Coming this Half Term for MATs:

• Track and analyse your schools’ parental engagement levels centrally from MAT MIS. See exactly how many emails, SMS, and in-app messages your schools are sending, and get insight into the effectiveness of your parental engagement strategies

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.