Xporter blog

Meet Xporter Identity (formerly Groupcall IDaaS)

We are delighted to announce IDaaS is having a rebrand! The same IDaaS you know and love is going through some slight changes, starting from its name, which is now Xporter Identity. We also have a new logo… check it out!   The platform is getting a refreshed UI to achieve a more modern l...

Giulia Tramontana

19th May 2023

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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