Integration Suite for Schools

Highlights

Product detail

Every school or academic institution faces the challenge of creating, updating, and disabling user accounts and groups as pupils and staff join, move, or leave throughout the year – particularly during the busy start of the academic cycle. These accounts must be created accurately, consistently, and on time. Without the right access in place, users can quickly become unable to reach essential tools such as email, documents, classroom platforms, and other core systems.

Salamander Integration Suite removes this burden by connecting directly to your Management Information System (MIS). It automatically keeps your network users, groups, and permissions aligned with your MIS data. When your MIS is up to date, your network is too. Staff and students have the access they need across Microsoft 365, Exchange, Google Workspace, Paxton Net2 and the wide range of systems Salamander Integration Suite connects to.

We handle the full setup and ongoing management of your integration, freeing your team to concentrate on other important tasks. Every aspect is completely configurable allowing you to have a truly bespoke setup to your school, trust or college, without having to maintain custom scripts, or be constrained by the limits of other automation tools.

 

How can Salamander Integration Suite support your school?

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 school implementation, you can test it with specific groups.

Offer more

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 pupils, 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 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 pupil 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 pupil photographs.
• Configure permissions across your network.
• Generate passwords based on your conventions.
• Set account options, such as password expiry options.
• Disable and archive school leavers.

Group management

• Create and maintain groups based on information in the MIS.
  • Common examples are Year groups, Class groups, Registration groups and House groups.
  • If you can describe the criteria, we can create groups based on it.
• Update group settings including mail settings.

Pupil and staff email

• Create Microsoft mailboxes and email addresses based on your conventions.
• Manage licensing in Microsoft 365.
• Maintain mail options such as mailbox limits and sending restrictions.
• Write email addresses back to your management system. (Optional extra)

Pupil, staff and cover timetables

• Pull any timetable from your management system into your calendar system.
• Ensure staff and pupils always know where they need to be, including cover lessons, examinations and detentions, 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 Classrooms.
• Create and manage Microsoft Teams.
• Create and manage Apple School Manager users and classes.

Network administration

• Extract data from all management systems and standard databases.
• Schedule the integration as often or as little as you like and when it suits you.
• Manually run Salamander Integration Suite whenever you need to.
• Log and save every action and email the logs to yourself.

Salamander Cloud Portal

• Manage aspects of your configuration, including created accounts and logs.
• Review your Salamander licensing.
• Enables 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

School Type		Annual Licence		Annual Writeback Add-on (Recommended)		Remote Installation Fee
Fewer than 500 pupils		£607		£61		£275
500 – 1999 pupils		£1,215		£122		£495
2000 or more pupils		£2,429		£243		£715
		All prices exclude VAT

 

See also:

• Integration Suite for School Groups and Trusts
• Integration Suite for FE College and Universities

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Salamander Integration Suite Brochure