Ask Arbor Assistant, Exams, Timetabler and More!
Hello Arbor users, Cara here from Swyft Education. We're back with another instalment in our Arbor Updates series, bringing you the latest features and improvements in the Arbor Management Information System (MIS). Let's have a look and see what's new!
Ask Arbor Assistant
Ask Arbor is Arbor's new collaborator and assistant, it's just been released with the first two features being free!
The new Ask Arbor assistant is powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI, and has been built into the Arbor MIS. Accessable for school MIS only, the main MATs are on the list for a future date. You'll need to make sure it's been turned on and that you've logged in and out to have the new Ask Arbor button show up!
The first couple of areas this can be found are:
Communications - Helping you draft your emails, letters, in app msg or SMS
Student Record - Report creation
If you have worked with AI before you know that this can be a powerful tool to help with as many call it "busy work", we're excited to see the development of Ask Arbor and where this will go!
Exams
In case you missed it in our latest Exam Results Day - What You Need to Know blog you can now upload your 9B and 7B basedata! Very nice, thank you.
Incorrect EDI entries are no longer needed for manually adding students to the results page or adding results - just remember this can give duplicate results on your statements of results which will need tidying up. Oh and embargos will need to be set on each one!
Speaking of Embargos, this has been updated so it can be done more easily in the import process, again this is covered off in out Exam Results Day blog!
What Else is Going On?
Timetabler - Timetabled staff members and rooms can now be copied over to your Shared Teaching courses when importing from TimeTabler.
MAT MIS - The rename of Fixed Term Exclusions to Suspensions has now been rolled out to match school MIS. We do love a bit of continuity!
Top Navigation Menu - The list of academic years and the Import from Options link have both been removed. They can now be found in School / Programmes / Courses.
Error Message - Another improvement for when you don't have permissions for what your trying to access.
Free School Meals Eligilibility Page - The URL has been tweaked but the old one still works.
Arbor App - The Student Switcher, the bit where guardians can switch between multiple students, has been made larger so guardians can see more easily what it is.
Thats all for this selection of Arbor Updates, which are sure to make it a more user friendly experiance, looking forward to more coming out on the Ask Arbor!
As always we here at Swyft Education are here to help you get the most from your Arbor MIS, why not sign up for our mailing list, or get in touch 01376 433 633.
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