After the adoption of their essential connector in Australian schools, Schoolbox and Sentral are set to collaborate on a deeper integration, focused on improving the teacher experience.
“Working with our strategic SIS partner Sentral to optimise the learning and teaching experience is important for Schoolbox,” says James Leckie. “Schoolbox is the hub where educators can engage the entire school community in learning, and both Schoolbox and Sentral want to ensure this experience is seamless for educators.”
Sentral is a powerful school management platform trusted by over 2,500 Australian schools to seamlessly manage school administration, student data and more in an integrated and easy to use platform.
The next phase of the integration planned for 2023 will look at how Attendance, Markbook and Wellbeing data is entered and shared between the two platforms.
“This partnership continues our goal of making it easier for teachers to perform administrative tasks with the least amount of friction. By integrating these tasks directly into the Schoolbox teaching and learning experience, we can reduce teachers workloads whilst still enabling the extensive attendance management and business processes to occur within Sentral.” said Antony Mawer, Co-founder and Head of Strategy at Sentral. “This pragmatic approach to working with partners to deliver a streamlined experience is core to our mission of making life easier for schools.”
The roadmap will expand the integration to bring Markbook data and assessment results from Schoolbox back into Sentral, allowing schools to include this data in their summative reporting within Sentral and allowing educators to use the richer consolidated assessment data.
“Both organisations offer cloud-based software solutions taking the hassles of infrastructure away from Schools, allowing Schools to focus on what is important.” explains James Leckie. “The challenge is balancing the teaching and learning needs with the operational and compliance needs of a school, creating the best ecosystem to deliver on a Schools strategic plan.”
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About Sentral
Sentral is Australia’s leading cloud-based school management platform trusted by more than 2,500 Schools. With its web-based suite of modules, Sentral provides a single comprehensive interface for the management, tracking and reporting of data for school administration, online learning and student management.
Sentral helps schools provide the best education for every child in their care by developing software that revolutionises student management. Sentral strives to better understand what schools and teachers need most. Our common goal is to cut out the noise and simplify your daily processes so you can concentrate on nurturing the needs of every student in your care.
For more information visit sentral.com.au
About Schoolbox
Schoolbox is a K-12 learning management system and school community portal, a single destination for students, teachers and parents to engage in student learning. We believe technology can enhance knowledge and provide equality of learning. Our fundamental approach to product development centres on understanding the whole student – including pastoral care, formative and summative feedback, evidence or learning, and progression tracking, mapped throughout a child's learning journey across time.
Based in Melbourne, the Schoolbox team is passionate about delivering the best experience for school leadership, learning and administration teams, as well as their wider student and parent community.
This ethos allows us to forge real partnerships with our customers, and we proudly maintain a 96% customer retention rate. For more information visit schoolbox.com.au
