Integration Suite for FE College and Universities
Salamander Integration Suite automatically synchronises user accounts, groups, permissions and more for Colleges and Universities
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Product Information
Highlights
Automated user creation
Automatic Microsoft 365 licensing based on who is in the management system
Timetable synchronisation into Exchange, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom Provisioning
Photo synchronisation to Office 365 and G Workspace
A fully managed service
The Salamander Cloud Portal
Product detail
We understand the complexities of user, group and class synchronisation for both Further Education Colleges and Universities, having supported establishments since 2007. For colleges and universities, we support with creating and disabling users and groups as students & staff join and leave throughout the academic year. It is vital that these accounts are created accurately, consistently, and in a timely manner. Without their accounts being set up correctly, users will not have access to e-mail, documents, learning tools, and other systems associated with your College or University.
Salamander Integration Suite solves this problem as it links directly with supported Management Information Systems and custom SQL views. It is fully automated so that your network and relevant users, groups, and permissions reflect your management system. As long as your management system is up-to-date, so is your network. Everyone has the access they need to the resources they use, whether that’s in Microsoft 365, Exchange, Google Workspace, Paxton, Apple School Manager or any of the other systems SalamanderSoft integrate with.
Your Salamander Integration Suite is a bespoke configuration addressing the exact needs of your College or University, leaving your IT teams and Data Manager free to concentrate on other important tasks. Every aspect is completely configurable allowing you to have a truly bespoke setup without having to spend days writing and supporting your own scripts, or being limited by what other systems allow you to do.
How can Salamander Integration Suite support your FE College or University?
Enhance what you do, don’t change it
Salamander is completely customisable and fits your existing structures and follows your conventions. We work closely with you to ensure everything is reflected and if you are not ready for whole FE College or University implementation, you can test it with specific groups.
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Some of the things Salamander Integration Suite does for you aren’t possible manually. These include: creating email distribution groups based on groups in your management system; synchronising timetables; and pulling through photographs.
Save time
Salamander takes the manual processes out of managing your systems, leaving you to focus on more important things. Everyone saves time with Salamander as everything is always up-to-date and people can log in as soon as they need to start learning or teaching.
Increase efficiency
Staff know all of the students, and each other, as photographs from the management system display across the network. Everyone knows where they need to be as their timetables display on their Exchange, Microsoft 365 or Google calendar.
Help with the move to the cloud
If you are using or planning to use Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace for Education then Salamander Integration Suite can also create users, groups, classrooms, timetables, and more in these cloud services.
What can Salamander do for you?
User account management
- Create and automatically update staff and student accounts
- Usernames based on your conventions – no need to change to fit a limited range of options
- Create controlled assessment accounts, as required, based on your groups
- Display staff and student photographs
- Configure permissions across your network
- Generate passwords based on your conventions
- Set account options, such as password expiry options
- Disable and archive College or University leavers
Group Management
- Create and maintain groups based on information in the MIS or custom SQL views
- Common examples are Year groups, Course Groups, Class groups and Registration Groups
- If you can describe the criteria, we can create groups based on it
- Update group settings including mail settings
Student and staff email
- Create Microsoft mailboxes and email addresses based on your conventions
- Manage licensing in Microsoft 365, or use group-based licensing from the M365 Groups we provision
- Maintain mail options such as mailbox limits and sending restrictions
- Write email addresses back to your management system (Optional extra for supported MIS’)
Student and staff timetables
- Pull timetables from your management system into your calendar system (M365, Google, Exchange)
- Ensure staff and students always know where they need to be, including detentions, cover lessons and exams, as their timetables show on their mobile device wherever they are
- Categorise events so that everyone can more easily manage their schedule
Classroom Tools
- Create and manage Google Classroom
- Create and manage Microsoft Teams
- Create and manage Apple School Manager users and classes
Network administration
- Schedule the integration as often or as little as you like and when it suits you
- Enable you to manually run Salamander Integration Suite whenever you need to
- Log and save every action and email the logs to you
Salamander Cloud Portal
- Manage aspects of your configuration, including created accounts and logs
- Review your Salamander licensing
- Granular access for your IT Staff
Ongoing support
Support is provided by our dedicated support team and is included as part of the annual license fee. This support includes all configuration changes to the solution as well as on-going maintenance to ensure you get the most out of the solution.
Pricing information
| Establishment Type | Annual Licence Fee | Remote Installation Fee | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fewer than 500 students | £607+VAT | £520+VAT | ||
| 500-1499 students | £1,215+VAT | £1,040+VAT | ||
| 1500-2499 students | £2,361+VAT | £1,591+VAT | ||
| 2500–3,999 students | £2,951+VAT | £1,591+VAT | ||
| 4,000–5499 students | £3,540+VAT | £2,122+VAT | ||
| 5500–7500 students | £5,901+VAT | £2,652+VAT | ||
| 7500-9999 students | £7,344+VAT | £3,000+VAT | ||
| 10000-11999 students | £8,100+VAT | £4,000+VAT | ||
| 12000-13999 students | £9,720+VAT | £5,000+VAT | ||
| 14000+ students | Contact Us | Contact us |
Please contact us for pricing for College Group installations
Optional MIS Writeback (e.g. email addresses – supported systems only)
| Type | MIS Writeback Fee (Annual) | |
|---|---|---|
| College or University | £243+VAT |
Questions & Answers
Supported Integrations
School MIS Systems
We have support for all the major MIS systems in the UK and are working to extend this support to MIS/SIS systems in other markets. If yours is not on the list contact us to see if we already support it, otherwise we can easily add support for it.
Want to know more?
Discuss your needs in more detail with Peter Darbyshire our Installations and Projects Coordinator and Integration Suite for FE College and Universities specialist.
Contact Peter Darbyshire
Case studies
Automating identity and communication across an all-through school | Bartholomew School and Heyford Park School
Eynsham Partnership Academy (EPA) Trust needed a more efficient, secure, and dependable way to manage user provisioning, access control, and communication groups across two schools: Bartholomew School and Heyford Park School.
Automating user accounts across 23 schools at a growing MAT | The Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham Multi Academy Trust
To support its growing number of academies, The Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham Multi-Academy Trust (SNMAT) needed a more efficient and scalable way to manage user accounts and digital classrooms across multiple schools. By partnering with SalamanderSoft, the Trust has successfully automated key IT processes, saving time, reducing errors and streamlining the start of each school term.
Saving Time and Enabling Cloud-Based Learning With Automation
SalamanderSoft has partnered with Cliff Park Ormiston Academy to automate the management of staff and pupil data from their MIS to Google Classroom. We are continuing to support the school with a transition from Google For Education to Office 365.