Arbor AI Features

Personalisation

You can personalise Arbor AI's responses to fit the unique characteristics of you and your school. Every time Arbor AI generates something for you, it will take this context into consideration. 

Arbor AI allows you to personalise the following: 

Context about your school 

You can provide additional context about your school, such as school focus and expectations. 

An example would be: We have a strong focus on behaviour and always doing your best; this should be referenced where possible. Students are expected to have at least 97% attendance, and we do not tolerate term-time holidays.

To do this, navigate to: School -> Arbor AI -> Personalisation -> Additional School Context

Arbor AI's tone of voice and communication style

You can tell Arbor AI what kind of tone or voice you want to use in it's responses. This is particularly useful when you're using the Suggest Comms feature. 

An example of the tone guide would be: Be professional and friendly. Always use simple language, but be encouraging. 

To do this, navigate to: School -> Arbor AI -> Personalisation -> Tone Guide

Context that's specific to you

You can provide Arbor AI with information about yourself, your role, or any other additional context that you would like it to consider when responding to you. This is particularly useful if you want to make Arbor AI aware of pastoral groups or classes that you teach. You can even make Arbor AI respond to you in a different language. 

An example of specific content would be: I teach Year 6. Please respond to me in English and Welsh. 

Ask Arbor

You can find more information about the Ask Arbor Assistant in this help centre article.

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.