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Building a Fire Evacuation App
28/02/2025
During a fire evacuation, every second counts. Schools face the daunting task of ensuring everyone—staff, visitors, and students—is safely accounted for during an emergency roll call. Relying on paper lists and outdated approaches often slows the process and opens the door to mistakes.

Building an Admin Dashboard app
27/02/2025
For schools, especially multi-academy trusts, keeping tabs on staff and visitors in real-time is vital—not just for security, but for keeping day-to-day operations running smoothly. The old Admin Console, though, was past its prime: a clunky interface and a poor user experience turned routine tasks into a nightmare for reception staff.

Building a Sign-in app
26/02/2025
Getting staff and visitors onto school premises quickly, securely, and without a fuss is no small task. The old Sign-in App schools relied on was showing its age—clunky, slow, and poorly suited to today’s security and compliance demands.

Building a Visitor Management System
25/02/2025
Efficiently managing staff, visitors, and emergency evacuations is a top priority for schools and Multi-Academy Trusts. The old third-party Visitor Management System, though, had problems—expensive fees, slow support, and little room to adapt.

Building a Helpdesk for a Multi-Academy Trust
24/02/2025
Let’s face it: IT support in schools can be a mess. For a Multi-Academy Trust juggling multiple locations and a growing crew of staff, that mess gets exponential. The old helpdesk system we were stuck with was a relic—clunky, impossible to keep up, and about as flexible as a brick. Tickets got lost in the void, response times dragged, and there was no way to tell what was fixed or who was drowning in requests.