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Assessment Concepts

The following are the main parts of the Staffroom Assessment module.  Understanding these will help school staff who want to create their own custom markbooks for their schools. Category A category is something you can use to organise your assessment results. You can think of a category like a kind . . . Read more

Supported SMS Gateways

In order to be able to send SMSes from your Staffroom site, you need to use a third party SMS gateway.  Staffroom supports the following SMS providers and gateways: BulkSMS SMSPortal SMSWeb If you wish to send SMSes from your Staffroom site you will need to have an account with . . . Read more

Sending Emails from InTouch

Staffroom allows sending of richly formatted emails with attachments to staff, parents or students.  It is easy to send email to your classes, grades and groups since Staffroom knows which staff, parents and students are in each. Note that there are two places that you can send emails from within . . . Read more

Capture – I can’t see my markbooks?!

Help! I can’t see my markbooks… The first thing to check is that you are in the right place.  If you have not navigated to the correct year and grade in the assessment module, you won’t see your classes. Please check that you have navigated as follows: Select “Assess” from . . . Read more

What is Staffroom?

In a nutshell… Staffroom is a cloud based system that is designed to help schools with things like storing important student and family records, communicating with stakeholders, academic assessment, attendance, reporting, and much much more. What can Staffroom do? We’re adding new things to Staffroom all the time, but here . . . Read more

What is the Messenger?

Communicate with your staff The Staffroom Messenger is a tool used by school staff to communicate with each other.  The Messenger is only an internal communication tool so posts and announcements in this tool are not visible to students, parents, or anyone else without access to Staffroom.  The Staffroom Messenger is . . . Read more

Students – How to view and search for students

1.) Click on the Infobase tab. 2.) Click on students–>View. 3.) On the right hand side of the screen there is a search box. Type in the name of the learner in the search box or alternatively search for the learner by surname using the alphabet on the screen.

Email Attachments

The Staffroom InTouch module allows you to send emails with file attachments. Adding Attachments to Email Adding an attachment to an email is quick and easy… Open the Intouch > Email > Compose screen Compose the email you would like to send by adding recipients, a subject and the email . . . Read more

Capture – Markbook Button Locations

We’ve changed the layout of the Markbook buttons to make navigation easier and more intuitive. Navigation Buttons We’ve moved our markbook navigation buttons to the top right Course navigation on the left is now included on all markbook screens These changes will allow you to switch more quickly between markbook, settings, . . . Read more

Capture – Filtering Markbooks

Working in large markbooks with lots of results in them can be quite difficult, so we have included a filtering feature to help make this easier. Filtering Results The filtering feature allows you to select a subset of the markbook to view.  This feature allows you to view results for . . . Read more