Xporter blog

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...

Xporter Update – Automated Error Notifications

Hope you had a wonderful Easter break - to join in on good news of the 12th we have some exciting new support enhancements in place for Xporter!  Proactive messaging – We will introduce 6 new automated error notifications to our platform from the 12th April. This will n...

The Easter warm up!

From the 8th March we saw a majority of schools returning after what seems like an eternity(or so the home schooling parents thought) which hopefully hasn’t been too stressful for everyone. We have another EGGsellent school holiday on the horizon too. We wanted to drop in some bits and bobs from ...

Xporter

25th March 2021

What does my school data cost?

If you are one of the 20,000 UK schools using Groupcall Xporter to collate the data from your schools, you will be aware that the cost of acquiring the data is apparently zero. Once the product has been set up, it will be updated automatically, and give you streams of whatever data you’ve ask...

Xporter

25th March 2021

Our products and the education revolution

On the 7th of August 2018, the Education Secretary Damian Hinds announced his challenge to the EdTech sector in England to ‘launch an education revolution for schools…’ or, to provide tools and software to support and ease the burden of teachers and schools in a number of critical and oft...

Xporter

25th March 2021

SEEMiS Partner with Xporter

Solution helps connect Scottish schools to best of breed educational software at the same time as increasing efficiency and supporting data-driven decision-making Groupcall is delighted to have been chosen to work in partnership with SEEMiS Group LLP to provide data integration ...

Xporter

25th March 2021