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Persona Education Partner Spotlight

Our newbie partners at Persona Education are this month’s spotlight stars! Persona Education is a Bristol (UK) based, Innovate UK and Google Cloud-funded impact edtech firm, on a mission to boost young people’s wellbeing, employability, and success.  Even before the pandemic, se...

Giulia Tramontana

22nd December 2022

Product Releases December 2022

Our team have been working hard throughout the year on more new features and improvements to Xporter. Here is a summary of the changes that have been rolled out recently.

• Timetable Model now supports Cover Lessons
• Entitlement History now supports In Care
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Xporter Marketing
21st December 2022

Parentapps Partner Spotlight

This December, we are giving the spotlight to our partners at Parentapps. Parentapps is an award-winning education technology company that helps schools overcome the challenges they face with communicating with parents in this modern age.  While many schools are using ineffective, t...

Giulia Tramontana

30th November 2022

Rugby School Online Partner Spotlight

Rugby School Online are the Xporter partner spotlight stars this month. They are known for delivering online revision for A-level STEM subjects, helping students globally to achieve their potential. Rugby School Online provide self-study and live teaching revision services f...

Giulia Tramontana

7th November 2022

SMARTcurriculum Partner Spotlight

This month, our partner spotlight presents SMARTcurriculum – a powerful curriculum-focused analytics tool that keeps senior leaders aware of the spending on staffing and curriculum structure. SMARTcurriculum’s ultimate goal is to help leaders make the important decisions about staff sup...

Giulia Tramontana

12th October 2022

The Importance of Transition – Partner Post

Transition is a key time in the life of a child. Not only do they move schools, but they also move to institutions which are much bigger, and which are run in different ways, all at a time when they are experiencing accelerated personal development. Most children look forward to moving, and...

Giulia Tramontana

7th September 2022

SixIntoSeven Partner Spotlight

This month's partner spotlight presents SixIntoSeven, a leading U.K EdTech tool that's passionate about making sure children have the best possible start in secondary school, and that supports the most vulnerable children through the transition from primary to secondary school.  SixIntoSeve...

Giulia Tramontana

6th September 2022

Pebble Partner Spotlight

Pebble are the stars of this month's partner spotlight! Pebble are the innovators of an elegantly designed software suite which allows users to consolidate the management of income, expenditure and sales. If you’ve got multiple systems across different sites, Tali, Trac, and Till work alo...

Giulia Tramontana

8th August 2022

We All Beam Partner Spotlight

This month's Partner Spotlight is dedicated to We All Beam! We All Beam is a mental health app for children of all ages; it provides schools, further education, and universities with a tool to measure and track the mental health of pupils. We All Beam enables teachers to identify children w...

Giulia Tramontana

18th July 2022

A Star Attendance Partner Spotlight

Xporter are proud to introduce this month’s partner spotlight: A Star Attendance, the new electronic online attendance officer on the market. A Star Attendance is the first and only attendance monitoring system for schools, designed by practitioners for practitioners. You are guaranteed t...

Giulia Tramontana

14th June 2022

Classoos Partner Spotlight

Introducing our partners at Classoos! Classoos is an accessible, intuitive digital textbook and learning resources platform providing schools and colleges across the globe with textbooks from the major UK publishers. We have asked the Classoos team some questions about how Xporter helps th...

Giulia Tramontana

12th May 2022

DB Education Partner Spotlight

DB Education create innovative IT systems that automatically collect key data around attainment, attendance, behaviour, engagement and more. This data is then reported centrally via user-friendly, intuitive data dashboards. By providing this often hard to reach data, in an easy to use forma...

Giulia Tramontana

14th April 2022

2Simple Partner Spotlight

2Simple is a partner of Xporter's that has been making powerful and creative educational software for learners and schools for over 20 years. They are committed to providing creative, inclusive, and inspiring software to encourage children to love learning and prepare them for later life.&n...

Giulia Tramontana

28th March 2022

Product Releases March 2022

This is our summary of releases that have come out in the past two months. Keep an eye out for these monthly updates! [NEW!] Added support for Arbor Future and Leaving Staff - Staff Endpoint
[FIX] Fixed an issue which was showing incorrect start/end dates for Staff – Staff ...

Giulia Tramontana

18th March 2022

Groupcall & Liquidlogic: Webinar Invite

Since 2016, Liquidlogic and Groupcall have developed a strategic partnership focused on supporting and transforming the provision of core services provided by Local Authorities. Our joint expertise enables us to deliver key solutions with a wide range of benefits, cost savings and e...

Giulia Tramontana

4th March 2022

Partner Post – Empowering Educators With Digitalised Work Experience Programmes

Amongst the many milestones of life, the transition from educators to the workplace is definitely the most memorable and probably the most nerve-racking. Lost in the complex procedures of applying for work-based learning programmes, it is quite common for students to feel overwh...

Welbee Partner Spotlight

Our newest partners at Welbee are the stars of this month's Spotlight. Welbee, from School Wellbeing Accelerator, is a highly effective online evaluation and staff wellbeing improvement tool, designed to help senior education leaders and HR Directors create a healthy school culture to...

Giulia Tramontana

14th February 2022

Parents Booking Partner Spotlight

Parents Booking is a partner of Xporter's dedicated to helping schools on the parental engagement and appointment-making fronts. The platform is used by thousands of schools in the UK and abroad. Principally, it helps schools run tens of millions of virtual and in-person parents' evening appoin...

Giulia Tramontana

20th January 2022

Success Story – The Cornerstone Academy Trust

The Cornerstone Academy Trust are one of the many trusts that rely on Xporter to export MIS data. They are sharing their feedback and highlights of their experience with us: read on to learn how our services support your Multi-Academy Trusts! "We were moving from SIMS to Arbor becaus...

Giulia Tramontana

14th January 2022

CPOMS Partner Spotlight

Xporter is pleased to present its partnership with CPOMS. Driven by a team of specialists with extensive experience in the Education Sector, CPOMS is currently used by over 14,500 establishments spanning the UK, Ireland, Africa, Asia, Canada, USA and wider Europe. Gone are the days of extens...

Giulia Tramontana

10th December 2021

Satchel Partner Spotlight

Xporter is pleased to present its partnership with Satchel, a learning platform trusted by 1 in 3 UK secondary schools. Xporter has helped the Satchel platform for a number of years by providing access to schools’ MIS. Satchel is an EdTech company that is specialised in creating award-winn...

Xporter

22nd November 2021

School Authorisation within Xporter

Once Xporter is installed, we will only share your data with applications you have authorised. Each application that utilises Xporter must be authorised separately which allows you to control exactly what data is being shared on an application-by-application basis. For example, if your cashless...

What does an excellent product look like?

Usually, customers look for that value addition or the problems you can solve, but also for the reassurance that you can evolve with them as their needs and issues change. To achieve this, you will need to know your customer and how to measure your successes. Alongside using volume and usage me...

Xporter

20th October 2021

Product Releases October 2021

This is our summary of releases that have come out since 1st September. In future, we will be releasing this on a monthly basis.

• [ENH] - Added support for XodHub on Tools tab in Emerge Management Console
  • XodHub connection now shows in  Service Endpoints panel
  • Chec...
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    Henry Kilshaw

    20th October 2021

September Support

On Wednesday 8th September 2021, our very own Gillian hosted a support webinar enabling you to prepare yourself fully for the busy rush of September. If you missed it, you can watch it back at your convenience here whilst also accessing some useful links below: Useful Links Document ...

Partner Post – Children’s Character Development Gap

Schools have a vital role in helping children develop positive character “virtues” and soft skills, and despite schools’ efforts, remote education has created a character development gap that needs to be filled, writes Tim Ballard. When the Covid-19 pandemic forced schools to close, te...

Xporter

23rd June 2021

Changing Education Partner Spotlight

Xporter is delighted to have been chosen to work in partnership with Changing Education to provide evidence-based practice for a range of work experience opportunities, as well as a careers management platform to help students make the leap from the class...

Getting to know Open Kitchens: Q&A

Open Kitchens is a national food solution that brings together restaurants & their communities to fund, produce & deliver free meals to those in need. Their service, Meal Dash, enables children who live in food insecurity to be given food parcels comprised of the 3 million tonnes of foo...

Introducing Our Partner: Open Kitchens

Open Kitchens is a national food solution that brings together restaurants & their communities to fund, produce & deliver free meals to those in need. Their service, MealDash, enables children who live in food insecurity to be given food parcels comprised of the 3 million tonnes whi...

SEEMiS Integration

Thank you all for your patience, we have made great progress on our integration with SEEMiS! We plan to be going into early-stage pilots for the start of May and will be in touch in the coming weeks to discuss what Local Authorities and schools you have from Scotland in your pipeline wan...