What’s new in April?

Summer Term is in full swing and the sunshine has started to make an appearance. April saw us make some exciting releases into Arbor MIS and MAT MIS that will help support you, your school and your students.  

What’s new in Arbor MIS

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better. Here are just some of our recent launches and updates: 

Updates to the sex and gender fields
To align with the DfE, we’ve made some changes to the gender field in Arbor. We’ve relabelled the Gender field in Arbor to Sex to reflect its existing use in the census, and we’ve added a new field on student, guardian and staff profiles for Gender Identity.

Learn more here

KS4 Assessment Analysis

Use our new KS4 Assessment Analysis page to track student progress in more detail, plus get a Progress 8 estimate based on last year’s Attainment Band data. 

Learn more here

The latest features added to tables 

We’ve made some exciting updates in the past month and will continue to make improvements throughout Summer Term. 

What’s new in April for tables:

• Icons and formatting now display in column filters
• A handy Reset button to quickly clear the filters applied to a column
• You’ll get a pop-up warning if you’ve got unsaved changes or data that needs to be submitted
• A new ‘Bulk Fill Blank Values’ button on all editable tables

Learn more here

What’s new in MAT MIS

MAT MIS is custom-built for better collaboration across your trust, with tools that make it easy to work together as one organisation.

School Staff Absence Reporting improvements

We made some great updates to School Staff Absence Reporting in April following your feedback. 

• You asked we added it! You can now search by Absence Created Date which will support you in linking your absence reporting to payroll
• Now when you run a report all active absences show for your selected dates. Previously it would return those that started on or after the filtered dates

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.