Introduction to Arbor - Admin's Guide

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Guide

This guide contains:

• Logging in
  • Returning to Arbor
  • I need to reset my password
  • Helping other staff to log in
    • Sending the welcome email
    • Resending login details to staff
    • Troubleshooting
  • Helping parents to log in
    • Sending the login email or resending login details
    • Troubleshooting
• My Homepage
• HR admin and staff access
  • What are business roles and how do you give them to staff?
  • Updating staff checks and using the Single Central Staff Record
  • Adding staff contracts
• Student Admin
  • SEN and student background e.g. Pupil Premium and FSM
  • Checking and editing a student’s enrolment into the school and registers
  • Guardians and their relationship to the student
• Managing the user data stored in the MIS
  
  • Resolving duplicates
  • Data Retention and removing profiles
• Attendance
  • Completing today's registers
  • Editing attendance marks
  • Adding planned absences
  • Reporting on attendance
• Top Tips
  • Arbor Tips
  • Computer Tips
• Troubleshooting- Why isn’t Arbor working?

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Administration Tasks

1. How Do I Login to my School?
2. How do I use the search feature in Arbor?
3. How do I change my Arbor account details?
4. Creating Password Rules for Arbor
5. Why isn't Arbor working?

Attendance

1. How do I view attendance?
2. How does a teacher take attendance?
3. How do I complete incomplete registers?
4. How do I bulk edit marks?
5. How do I follow up absences?
6. How do I analyse latecomers?
7. How do I report on attendance?
8. How do I print an Emergency Evacuation Register?

Enrolments

1. How do I enrol a student?
2. How do I transfer a student between classes?
3. How do I un-enrol a student
4. How do I manage a leaver by generating a CTF?

Staff

1. How do I add a member of staff?
2. How do I log an absence?
3. Using Arbor's Data Quality Dashboard

Communications

1. How do I send an email from the Communications Dashboard?
2. How do I send an SMS from the Communications Dashboard?