Do you use Outlook or Office 365 for your staff?

What is the simplest way of ensuring that everyone in the school always knows exactly what is happening, when and where?

The answer is to configure your staff’s electronic calendars to reflect the way you organise your years, weeks and days – even if you have two-week timetables, different patterns of sessions on different days, and unusual working weeks.

Get all the events you want your staff to be aware of into their own calendars. Even if they sync to an iPhone, iPad or Android they will still have the information. Do this at the whole school level and for different departments and teams.

Import their timetable data from SIMS, TimeTabler or other systems and put it in their calendars. You can even use this as the basis for standardised lesson planning across the school or department.

Use templates to implement standard formats for lesson plans, meeting agendas and anything else that might go in the body or notes section of an appointment.

Academic Calendar is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that makes it work the way schools, colleges and academies need. It can do all the above and more.

Academic Calendar can distribute appointments to staff running Outlook or, if necessary, make appointments directly into Exchange or Office 365.

One person sets the data up – the rest get the benefit.

Academic Calendar was created by an experienced ex secondary head and is in continuous development in response to school needs.

To find out more and to download the software to try it, go to http://www.academiccalendar.co.uk/acal-email-landing-page/

Best regards

Mike Vaughan Edwards
Greenhill Software