Arbor AI Features

Suggest Email & Suggest SMS

The Suggest Email and Suggest SMS functionality allows you to tell Arbor what you want to write about, choose a tone of voice and a language, and Arbor will suggest a draft for you. 

To use the feature, navigate to the mail merge email and sms page, the Arbor AI ‘Suggest Email’ button will appear in the top right corner of the page.

Only users who have permission to send emails and/or SMS messages will be able to access this page. 

Can’t see the ‘Suggest Email’ button? Make sure that you have opted in to Arbor AI and that Suggest Comms is enabled from the Arbor AI dashboard. 

Clicking on ‘Suggest Email’ will show the Suggets Email popup. From here, you can write a brief summary of what you would like to write and select a style. 

After you have clicked ‘Suggest Draft’, Arbor will create a suggested draft email. You are free to edit the contents of the email or SMS in the same way as you would when sending something that you had written. 

Suggest Student Summary 

The Student Summary feature allows you to create an overview of a student using the data recorded in Arbor for the student, such as attendance, behaviour, and academic performance. The summary will also provide advice on how to address areas where the student is not performing as expected

The ‘Suggest Student Summary’ button appears at the top of the student profile. Only users who have access to the student profile will be able to use this feature.

Can’t see the ‘Suggest Student Summary’ button? Make sure that you have opted in to Arbor AI and that Suggest Student Summary’ is enabled from the Arbor AI dashboard. 

After selecting the ‘Suggest Student Summary’ button, the Suggest Student Summary popup will appear. You can write a few words about the student and then click the ‘Suggest Student Summary’ button. 

Arbor will then generate the summary. Once generated, you can either email the summary or add it as a pastoral note. You can edit the email or pastoral note after they have been generated. 

Suggest a Formula

Suggest a formula allow you to  describe what you need to calculate in your Custom Report, and Arbor will create the formula for you and display the results as a column.

Please note: to use this feature, Arbor AI must be enabled, and you must have access to Custom Report Writer. 

When adding a Advanced Calculation/Formula Column column to a custom report, you can click on the ‘Suggest formula’ button to display the Edit Column slide over with the ‘What should the formula do?’. 

Simply tell Arbor what you would like the formula to do, and it will create the formula for you. Arbor will attempt to generate a name for the new formula column. You can edit or make changes to the formula column after it has been created.