Parents' evenings, clubs & events and room booking

“The school used an elaborate and complicated system involving lost pieces of paper and bookings mistakenly made by the school on behalf of parents. This electronic system empowers the parents allowing them to make choices based around their own busy lives. We have 2,700 pupils across our 3 schools and their parents universally agree this system is far better. The administration staff work load is greatly reduced and the parents choose their own appointments. More efficient all round.”

“The system is very popular among parents and staff at Corfe Hills. The feedback so far has been consistently positive. It is very easy to use and the time saved in admin has been considerable. Highly recommended.”

“We used to use a paper based system of booking appointments for parents evenings resulting in problems seeing specific students and a generally chaotic nature. The system has benefitted us immensely in that the evenings are much easier to administer, it has cut out the need for writing to individual parents to ask them to make the appointments. Evenings run much closer to time and parental attendance has improved hugely from around 70% up to about 85-90% for most year groups.

Feedback from parents has been hugely positive, many parents have found it very easy to use and appreciate the visual design and the email confirmation tools. I'd have no hesitation in recommending the system to other schools.”

“The system is great - it is easy to load for the administrator and gives parents a much more efficient booking process with greater choice. We previously used a "homemade" database system which was ok but we had to book the appointments internally from slips returned from students.

The Parents Evening System is definitely time saving - fewer phone calls to the college to change appointment dates/times. It's also convenient for parents to select the most suitable evening. Staff can view appointments in real time and re-allocate if necessary. Feedback from parents was very positive and I'd recommend this to others.”

“The launch of this system has generated more positive feedback from parents than anything we have ever done before.

We had a paper based system where staff and students would arrange appointments between themselves. The evenings would overrun and parents would arrive having no idea when their appointments were as their children had lost their sheets. From our own surveys we knew that 23% of parents were unhappy with how the evenings were ran.

97% of our parents think this new system is an improvement to our old paper based system. We love it, it has revolutionised our parents evenings putting the power back into the hands of parents.”

“The on-line booking system has been very helpful. Previously, our parents signed up on paper lists. From an admin point of view, the programme is easy to look at and to operate. Thank you, we look forward to using the Parents Evening System in the future.”