When should I complete my Arbor Onboarding Training?
Your Arbor Foundations Training is available via the Arbor Training Hub, and will provide you with all the information you need to be able to successfully use your new Arbor MIS!
The training is broken down into courses for each of the key modules in Arbor, making it easy to book and attend.
Project Leads are enrolled in all courses listed below, whilst other staff at the school who register for the Training Hub will be enrolled in courses relevant to the Business Role they select.
Users have the freedom to choose which live sessions they want to attend and when from our schedule. The training is a mixture of live instructor lead training and e-learning content. You can see the schedule for our live training here.
To help you decide who should complete each training session and when we have provided a breakdown below.
Primary Onboarding Training
|
Training course |
Training length |
Instructor-led training schedule |
Recommended Attendees |
|
Getting Started |
13 mins |
N/A |
All staff |
|
Teacher Essentials |
90 mins |
N/A |
Teachers |
|
Student Profiles & Enrolment |
90 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Guardian Profiles |
45 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
Managing Staff Profiles |
45 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Staff Business Roles and Permissions |
45 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Staff Absence and Cover |
45 mins |
Twice a week |
Cover Managers |
|
Primary Attendance |
90 mins |
Twice a week |
School Attendance Officers |
|
Attendance Reporting |
60 mins |
Twice a week |
School Attendance Officers |
|
Arbor MIS Management |
12 mins |
N/A |
Project Lead |
|
Communications |
90 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Training course |
Training length |
Instructor-led training schedule |
Recommended Attendees |
|
Adding demographic information on Student Profiles |
75 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Single Central Record |
15 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
Staff Contracts and Payscales |
45 mins |
Twice a week |
Head |
|
Custom Groups |
23 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
User Defined Fields |
12 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
School Reporting on Arbor |
20 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
Introduction to Custom Report Writer |
75 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
Secondary Onboarding Training
|
Training course |
Training length |
Instructor-led training schedule |
Recommended Attendees |
|
Getting Started |
13 mins |
N/A |
All staff |
|
Teacher Essentials |
90 mins |
N/A |
Teachers |
|
Student Profiles & Enrolment |
90 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Guardian Profiles |
45 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
Managing Staff Profiles |
45 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Staff Business Roles and Permissions |
45 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Staff Absence and Cover |
45 mins |
Twice a week |
Cover Managers |
|
Secondary Attendance |
90 mins |
Twice a week |
School Attendance Officers |
|
Attendance Reporting |
60 mins |
Twice a week |
School Attendance Officers |
|
Arbor MIS Management |
12 mins |
N/A |
Project Lead |
|
Secondary Timetable Management |
75 mins |
Weekly |
Data Managers |
|
Secondary Course Enrolments |
60 mins |
Weekly |
Data Managers |
|
Communications |
90 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrator |
|
Training course |
Training length |
Instructor-led training schedule |
Recommended Attendees |
|
Adding demographic information on Student Profiles |
75 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
|
Interventions |
60 mins |
Weekly |
HOD |
|
Single Central Record |
15 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
Staff Contracts and Payscales |
45 mins |
Twice a week |
Business Mgr/Bursar |
|
Custom Groups |
23 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
User Defined Fields |
12 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
School Reporting on Arbor |
20 mins |
N/A |
School Administrators |
|
Secondary Exams setup and Entries |
75 mins |
Weekly |
Exams Officers |
|
Secondary Exam Timetabling and Coursework Marks |
45 mins |
Weekly |
Exams Officers |
|
Secondary In House Exams |
45 mins |
N/A |
Exams Officers |
|
Secondary Exam Results |
30 mins |
N/A |
Exams Officers |
|
Introduction to Custom Report Writer |
75 mins |
Twice a week |
School Administrators |
Manual Migration & Brand New Site Setup Training
The Brand New Site Setup Course is made up of 7 modules plus additional tests of learning, which will show you how to set your blank Arbor site up if you don’t currently use an MIS.
This training and setup must be completed before Go Live.
All modules are aimed at the Project Lead, or the person responsible for setting up the Arbor site. This is usually the School Administrator.
|
Training module and length |
Includes |
|
Setting up your School details and Pastoral Structure (21 mins) |
Creating your Academic Year |
|
Adding and Enrolling Student (18 mins) |
Creating an Intake Season |
|
Managing Student Profiles (50 mins) |
Finding a Student Profile |
|
Managing Guardian Profiles (31 mins) |
Finding a Guardian profile |
|
Managing Staff Profiles (29 mins) |
Finding and Navigating Staff Profiles |
|
Managing Staff Absences (9 mins) |
Logging Staff Absences |
|
Contracts and Payscales (31 mins) |
Creating Allowances |
The Manual Migrations Course is made up of 8 modules plus additional tests of learning, which will show you how to manually move your data from your current MIS into Arbor.
This training and setup must be completed before Go Live.
All modules are aimed at the Project Lead, or the person responsible for setting up the Arbor site. This is usually the School Administrator.
|
Training module and length |
Includes |
|
Setting up your School details and Pastoral Structure (18 mins) |
Creating your Academic Year |
|
Entity Importers (8 mins) |
Using the Entity Importer |
|
Adding and Enrolling Student (11 mins) |
Creating an Intake Season |
|
Managing Student Profiles (19 mins) |
Finding existing profiles |
|
Managing Guardian Profiles (21 mins) |
Finding and existing Guardian profile |
|
Managing Staff Profiles (29 mins) |
Finding and Navigating Staff Profiles |
|
Managing Staff Absences (9 mins) |
Logging Staff Absences |
|
Contracts and Payscales (31 mins) |
Creating Allowances |
Meals, Payments & Parental Engagement Training
Meals and Payments training are additional training services that can be purchased if your school are looking to roll out these modules in Arbor.
We recommend you complete these courses in line with your school's plan to roll out and start using these areas of the system.
Click here to view more information about Payments Training, here to view our Payments Plus training, and here to view information about our Meals Training.
The Parental Engagement Learning Path is broken down into e-learning courses and Instructor-led training and has a final Test of Learning.
Click here to view more information about our Parental Engagement Training.
How will I get access to recordings and resources?
The Arbor Foundation courses contain recordings and resources. Recordings can be downloaded and shared with colleagues, or be used to refer back to in the future if needed.
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