Ask Arbor – your new collaborator and assistant in Arbor

You should Ask Arbor that

We’re super excited to introduce Ask Arbor, powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI. 

Following a successful beta programme, we’ve launched our first two Ask Arbor features. Ask Arbor is built seamlessly into Arbor MIS, and is designed to turn your words into actions wherever you see it pop up.

Need to draft a new school year email to parents and guardians? Arbor can help. Looking for a quick way to summarise students’ progress? a student report? Arbor can help with that too.

You can Ask Arbor wherever you see the icon below in Arbor MIS. 

Visit our Ask Arbor hub to find out more

Why AI in Arbor?

As Arbor’s Head of Product, I thought I’d share our vision for Ask Arbor and all things AI.

Here are the top three reasons we’ve introduced AI to Arbor MIS:

1. To leverage the most recent technology in Open AI to achieve our product vision and support our schools and trust the best way we can
2. To increase efficiency. We aim to make admin tasks more manageable so that teaching staff can focus on personalising feedback, information and learning plans for kids. Top tip: Check out Ask Arbor in the comms writer for how AI can help with this
3. To maximise insight. We know schools need to be able to pull together large reams of data into digestible summaries. Top tip: Ask Arbor in the Student Profile to run a report for you 

Ultimately, my aim with Ask Arbor is to help you complete admin tasks quicker. We want Ask Arbor to be an extra pair of hands and support you to get more out of your data, letting you take action quicker. Imagine being able to get better summary-level information for democratising data: Ask Arbor and AI can make that happen.

Plus, this isn’t the end state of Ask Arbor. This is an ongoing project that we will be working on. Watch this space for more updates – we can’t wait to hear what you think.