The announcements section of the messenger page allows school staff who have permission to create formal announcements that are displayed to all school staff. If you have permission to edit announcements you will be able to select the announcements link at the top of the announcements section: To print existing . . . Read more
Institutions often need to capture daily attendance of students for various reasons including health and safety, student performance, regulatory reporting etc. You can easily capture daily attendance in Staffroom for either classes or assessment groups from within the Infobase: Navigate to Infobase > Absentees > Students > Entry. The Daily Attendance . . . Read more
Staffroom displays a class grid on the Infobase home screen that you can use to check which classes have completed their attendance capture for a day: There are some important points to note about the attendance completion grid: The grid will display Infobase classes and/or assessment groups that are marked . . . Read more
Staffroom includes an attendance statistics tool to help your school analyse and report on absenteeism. This tool can be accessed for students or for staff via Infobase > Absentees > Statistics: The panel on the left allows attendance data captured in Staffroom to be queried and filtered: By date range . . . Read more
Staffroom provides tools to help schools to record the behaviour of students and automate behaviour policies based on flexible sets of rules and actions. NB: Setting up the behaviour features for the first time can be a little tricky without help. If you are interested in using these features at your school . . . Read more
It is possible for school staff to issue merits and demerits to students from the +merit and +demerit buttons found on the behaviour page on an individual student profile: You can also issue merits and demerits using the menu options found under the Infobase > Behaviour > Issue Merits or . . . Read more
Each time you issue merits and demerits Staffroom checks a set of rules called escalation policies. If a rule in an escalation policy is met then automatic actions called escalation actions can be triggered, such as sending email or SMS notifications to parents. Before the automatic actions are triggered escalations . . . Read more
Staffroom provides a various ways to view and report on behaviour information for your students: Behaviour information for each student is visible in the behaviour tab of the student profile A list of all merits and demerits issued across the whole school can be viewed Summary statistics that can be . . . Read more
You can use Staffroom’s Pastel customer export designer to sync your Staffroom family data with customer data in Pastel. Using this feature removes the need to manually keep customer data up to date in these two separate systems. The Pastel export designer allows you to create an extract file which . . . Read more
Staffroom has a tool to automatically generate a CSV file with customer information that can be imported into Pastel. Before Staffroom can be synchronised, your customer categories need to be set up in Pastel. Staffroom links up classes and pastel’s customer category codes. To see the customer category codes: From . . . Read more