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Arbor’s Brand New ‘My Homepage’!

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Georgina Rowlands in SIMS.

Reminder of our next Schools Data Forum next Tues 24th Nov, featuring Arbor and more! Agenda and bookings >

From today until tomorrow (16/11/20 – 17/11/20), Arbor are rolling out My Homepage – a brand new, personalised Arbor homepage for teaching and pastoral staff. There’s also improvements to the main Arbor homepage for all staff roles!

What’s new for staff who look after teaching or pastoral groups:

My Students – We’ve added a brand new tab to your Homepage showing you a personalised view of progress for your students only. Drill down to see which students are driving overall trends, filter your stats by key groups, such as FSM Year 5 boys, or SEN EAL girls, or switch back to the Whole School tab to get an overview of your school.
To-do list – This brand new feature will show you any incomplete registers, unresolved behaviour incidents, incomplete assessment data collections and cover requests assigned to you, helping you tick them off between lessons.
Student Alerts – See medical and pastoral notes, detentions and birthdays for your students so you never miss the important things!

Click here for the video →

What we’ve improved for everyone:

Whole school notices – We’ve brought this up to the top of the homepage so no one misses an important announcement
Quick Actions and Shortcuts – We’ve expanded the Quick Actions menu to bring your most important actions like ‘Take attendance’, ‘Create event’ and ‘Send email’ front and centre. Shortcuts will take you directly to core Arbor modules such as Behaviour, Cover and Summative tracking.
Adjust your Dashboard – You’ll be able to select which whole school stats you want to see – Attendance, Behaviour or Attainment (or all three!).

Click here for the video →

Or download Arbor’s guide for reference.

My Homepage guide →

If you require any assistance please call us on 0345 222 1551 • Option 3 or email MISservicedesk@schoolbusinessservices.co.uk. Have you booked onto our Schools Data Forum next Tuesday 24th November? Click here for details, agenda and bookings.

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SBS Schools Data Forum – Free to attend online

Posted on November 5, 2020 by Viv Reed in SIMS.

SBS Schools Data Forum – Free to attend online

Our next Schools Data Forum for primary schools will be held online at 10:00-12:00 on Tuesday 24th November 2020.

See our latest MIS blog for details, agenda and bookings.

ULN Requests

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Laura Bagnall in SIMS.

Please note we are holding a Schools Data Forum on Tuesday 24th November – find out more > The ULN Service has been de-commissioned You can no longer submit ULN requests via Secure Access S2S. Previously CTF files could only be submitted to LRS via the S2S system, which would in turn ‘translate’ these files […]

SIMS School Workforce Census 2020

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Georgina Rowlands in SIMS.

SIMS School Workforce Census 2020

It’s time to start looking towards the School Workforce Census 2020!

Please view our blog for more details and some guides to help you out. If required, SBS can complete the return for you.

Promote wellbeing and learning with our partners Thrive

Posted on October 16, 2020 by SBS Partner in Company News, Finance, HR & Payroll, ICT, SIMS.

Promote wellbeing and learning with our partners Thrive

To reduce the impact of lockdown on your students Thrive offers practical tools and training to promote wellbeing and help prevent mental health issues for all children and young people.

See our latest Partner blog to read more.