Getting started and logging in
If you have not logged in to Arbor yet, welcome! Your school is now live and it’s time to log in.
We designed Arbor to open data up to everyone and automate repetitive tasks to save you time. The lesson dashboards have been specially built to allow teachers like you to see an overview of your lesson and quickly take attendance, plus our bulk actions help you easily log behaviour or take further actions.
This guide will give you an introduction to accessing Arbor and managing your classes and will teach you how to do the most important actions in your day-to-day life.
To log in, launch an internet browser - we recommend Google Chrome, and go to your school's URL e.g. http://[exampleschoolname].uk.arbor.sc. Follow the instructions in the Logging in for the first time section of this article: Log in and out of the School MIS as staff
If this does not work, get in contact with someone else in your school’s office team who will be able to send you a reset password email and follow our troubleshooting guidance in this article.
My Homepage
This is the first screen that you will see when you log in to your school's Arbor site.
- Top menus and site links
- Search
- Shortcuts and Quick Actions
- My Calendar
- To do
- Alerts
- School notices
- Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Take a look here for a full breakdown of how you can use each section: My Homepage - your personalised Arbor Homepage
Managing my classes
The lesson dashboard
The Lesson Dashboard is the page you’ll be using most as a teacher. From this page you can get to the attendance register, log behaviour, view demographic and medical details for the students in your class and much more!
To get to the Lesson Dashboard for the right lesson, click on the lesson you want to view in your calendar.
You will be taken to the lesson Dashboard for this class. You can then see how to run your class here: Managing my class from the Lesson Dashboard Overview
Taking attendance and inputting meals
From the Lesson Dashboard, click Take register to open your register.
You can also click My Classroom to take attendance from your seating plan if your school have enabled this. Take a look at our My Classroom guide for full details on this feature.
You can then fill in the register. Take a look at this article for full instructions: Taking the register
If your school uses meals, you can access the meals register by clicking Meal Choices from the left-hand menu. Take a look at this article for full instructions: Taking the meal register
Top Tips
How to make the most of Arbor
Take a look at our resources for tips and tricks for using Arbor:
How you can get further help
Use the Help Centre - Go to the Help Centre at support.arbor-education.com/hc or click Help Centre in the top right of your Arbor site to open it in a new tab.
Here you can find FAQs, guides, video tutorials, and free online training, so you can learn however suits you best, and talk to other schools in the Arbor Community.
Take a look at this section of the Help Centre for how to get started, including what to do if Arbor isn’t working: Using Arbor, the Help Centre and the Community
Use Webchat to have help articles suggested to you. If you can't find what you're looking for, you can then begin chatting with a member of our Support Team - perfect for a quick response to time-sensitive queries. Get started using webchat here.
Where can I give feedback?
The Arbor Roadmap shows you what we’re working on now, what’s coming up next, and those shiny new features and enhancements we’re looking to release a bit further down the road. If you have feedback you can see how to submit this here: Our Product Roadmap and how to submit feedback
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