We’re back with our first product blog of 2025. It was fantastic to meet so many of you at Bett in January. Read on for some of the other highlights we worked on this past month.
The Arbor School Management suite brings together best-in-class, specialist tools to support operations across your whole school or trust, and streamline the most time-consuming tasks and processes your staff face today.
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What’s new in Arbor MIS
Basket in the Parent App
Parents can now buy multiple items quickly and efficiently by adding items to their Arbor Parent App basket, letting them make one transaction rather than several. Learn more.
Track assignments in the Student App
Following your feedback, students can now mark assignments as complete, and download attachments in the Arbor Student App. Students can easily track the tasks they’ve completed, and teachers don’t need to manually update the status of each assignment. Learn more.
Arbor AI Dashboard
If you haven’t already, make sure to take a look at the Arbor AI Dashboard, where you can review your school’s AI usage, and see how much fair use credit you have available. Learn more.
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What’s new in MAT MIS
Updates to Browse Institutions page
We’ve updated the Browse Institutions page on the MAT MIS to display as a list view by default. We’ve also added more table columns, including URN, Establishment Number, UKPRN, and Capacity, to give you quicker access to the details you need.
BI Connector updates
We’ve added a range of new and powerful datasets to the BI Connector. There’s a new Business Role Assignments dataset so you can check everyone has the right level of access, new attendance benchmarks that exclude guest students, and brand new benchmarks for special and PRU schools. Plus, our National Data Connector now includes pupil forecast figures from ONS to help you plan for future demographic changes.
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What’s live in Arbor Labs
Arbor Labs is the home for beta releases in Arbor. Test and influence our latest innovative features before anyone else.
Current live Arbor Labs include:
✨ Ask Arbor
✨ Ask Arbor – Student App
✨ Suggest Cover
✨ Create Custom Report
✨ Auto Absence
✨ Create intervention
✨ Suggest formula
Student Dashboard
Venn Diagram Analysis
BI Viewer
Make sure to visit the Arbor Labs page in Arbor Labs to join a beta today. Learn more here.
To keep up-to-date with all our latest releases visit our Change Log or to see what we are working on next and to give feedback visit our Product Roadmap.
