What are the challenges to realising digital transformation in school management?

Are you ready for a revolutionary technology experience that can help solve your SBM woes?

There’s a good chance your back-office systems aren’t providing the visibility you need to do your job as thoroughly and as efficiently as you’d like, meaning you may be losing valuable time and unable to maintain a clear view of your team and whole school planning. IRIS Ed:Gen brings schools a next generation MIS that will help improve many facets of school management and improve outcomes for students.

Your management information system: is it future-fit?

MIS checklist – what is the ideal system?

  • Is all of your data available on a single, easy-to-use platform, or spread across several, making things difficult to find?
  • What is the user experience of your MIS like? Is searching for data straightforward, or like stumbling through a maze?
  • Is your data stored on-site, potentially putting it at risk? Or is it securely stored in an off-site data centre?
  • Are you able to make real-time edits to registers and multiple timetables?
  • Does your MIS create an easy-to-track audit trail for you?
  • Are you able to communicate directly with your team members throughout the day, whenever you need to?
  • Do you and the teachers in your school end up wasting hours typing up reports and memos, when there are more efficient technologies available for taking notes?

Improved productivity for all

Perhaps you thought that a higher level of insight wasn’t possible yet, that the technology doesn’t exist – but, in fact, anything you need to know about your school can be at your fingertips, with some of the sectors more progressive systems. Not only can they enable a whole-school view for SBMs, head teachers and other school leaders, they can allow SLTs to be responsive and proactive, giving them the opportunity to better develop their insight and recognise the areas where things are being done right.

On the other side of that, some systems can highlight issues and areas that can be improved, while allowing your staff to get on with their day and perform their tasks more quickly and easily than ever before. In turn, this has a positive impact on pupils and helps to improve their development long-term.

Put simply, schools deserve better. IRIS is the thought leader in management information systems; it knows what schools are crying out for, and it knows that school business managers need up-to-date systems that provide a necessary refresh. Legacy systems need to become a thing of the past; Ed:Gen is built for the next generation of both school leaders and pupils. That’s why they have teamed up with us here at EdExec to create an in-depth sector survey where you can have your say about management information systems, how effective yours are and how they affect you.

Take the survey

Why Ed:Gen from IRIS is the number one choice

Streamlined school management

Including exams, marking, staff and teacher cover, scheduling and student tracking.

Easy administration

From data protection and document management to HR and registration, manage it all in a single view.

Fully managed admissions

Take care of applications, admissions, and student departure processes through a single online portal.

Constant communication

Keep everyone in the loop with coordinated comms, calendars, registers, portals, and parent and student apps.

Fuss-free finance

Enjoy easy accounting and asset management, with custom reporting across MATs and individual schools

More time for teachers

Securely access information anytime, anywhere, and do everything from writing reports to tracking attendance from a single shared platform.

Custom reporting

Show all school reports and assessment data in a single view, in whatever way suits your school or MAT.

Cloud-based access

Ed:gen’s software-as-a-service platform, innovative technology and modern interface are accessible from anywhere, and easy to use by all.

The over-arching question is: is your MIS fit-for-purpose? Is it helping you save time and lessening the workload and pressures upon you? What are the specific difficulties you face when trying to make your school’s back-office processes more efficient? Picking the right service to suit your school can be a minefield of trial and error.

We need your help to answer these key questions – and more – so that we can dive deep into your wants and needs as a school business leader. Join in now, share your experiences and insights.

We’d love your insight – Take the survey

As a thank you for sparing a few minutes of your very precious time, we are offering you the chance to be entered into a prize draw for a £200 SPA voucher! We really do value your input!

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