Partners
Becoming a Serco Learning Partner will enable our shared clients to maximize their investment through integration, will provide greater credibility and confidence in your solution and prominence over competitors that only partner status can offer. It will also give clients the confidence they need to proceed with a purchase, certain that their vision can be delivered.
More and more schools are looking for solutions that are unique to their particular needs. In order to achieve this they are bringing together a range of suppliers and partners to deliver this specific solution. As technology becomes more integrated in the life and work of schools, there is an increasing demand for applications to work together, either using data once, or presenting resources through a single platform. In order to deliver this programme there is an increasing responsibility being placed on the supplier community to work together. For suppliers, this represents a need to establish effective meaningful partnerships, where products work together, through appropriate integration or interoperability, which in turn gives our shared clients confidence in the products and the solutions being offered.
To enable a flexible and accessible approach to our partnership programme, we have established the Facility Connect interoperability suite and various partner programme options.
Become a Serco Learning partner today
To join our prestigious partner programme, simply get in touch by emailing enquiries@sercolearning.com
Our current partners include:
Access-It Library will help you meet the growing demands for library and information management, delivery, reporting and accountability. Tap into the latest SQL, web and client/server technologies with a library management solution that is powerful and fast, is industrial-strength and robust, and yet is visual, appealing and easy to use. Features include multi-campus implementations; SIP2 and RFID compatibility; SMS texting; support for LDAP & Active Directory; Biometrics; SOAP services; and z39.50 automated cataloguing. These are just some of the benefits from a company that has been developing and supplying library management systems for over 15 years.
www.accessitsoftware.co.uk
Aurora Computer Services is the UK market leader in face recognition. faceREGISTER is designed for sixth form registration or whole school lateness. faceREGISTER enables students to register automatically in school, college or university. If the student is late they will be asked for a reason why they are late and these marks are fed back to Serco Facility via our administration software faceMANAGER. faceREGISTER also allows for messages to be received by the student when they sign in. Students can also sign out using faceREGISTER, this is particularly useful for knowing if your sixth form students are on site.
www.auroraineducation.co.uk
CRB Solutions. We design, build and maintain, reliable and functional cashless payment systems under the brand name IMPACT, providing a full service from consultancy, installation, training and launch through to an exceptional after-sales support service. Cunninghams, our partners for over thirty years have sole distribution rights for IMPACT throughout England and Wales. Over a million users in more than 1500 schools throughout the UK.
www.crbsolutions.co.uk
Edustructures A Pearson company, is the recognised leader in data integration solutions that enable educational systems to simply and securely share data. Edustructures’ products allow learning institutions to deliver education reform by adopting standards-based integrated solutions that increase automation, support progress tracking, and enhance data quality in education. Edustructures’ solutions are designed to accommodate the ever-changing needs of Education and support best of breed integration solutions, delivering reliability and cost effectiveness. Edustructures offers the most advanced standards-based SIF solutions for all levels of information management and provide the foundation for successful data collection systems that enable educators to do more with less.
www.edustructures.com
Frog’s Learning Platform for secondary schools changes the way schools work - it enables ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Designed with teachers, students, parents and governors in mind, Frog offers a truly unique solution that embraces the whole school community. A simple, intuitive interface enables all users to easily design and build systems and pages including departmental websites, lessons, communication or admin systems with confidence. The exceptional creative control possible in Frog, gives all users ownership of areas within the school’s digital environment so they are much more willing to engage, resulting in school improvement. A head teacher from a school using Frog recently commented - ‘Frog has changed our world’.
www.frogtrade.com
Fronter is an internationally recognised, professional and established provider of online e-learning management solutions. Fronter is about ‘Learning Together’ and offers a state-of-the-art webbased, multilingual Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS). The product is developed in close cooperation with targeted reference groups of professional educationalists. Fronter and Serco have established a good technical partnership, and we can offer a full automatic integration between Facility CMIS and Fronter.
www.fronter.com
Gladstone Education is a leading supplier of innovative technology solutions that are specifically designed to manage 21st-century schools. The company specialises in providing electronic registration, cashless catering and facilitating access control integration using smartcard and biometric-based technology, and is a key supplier to the UK Government’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative.
www.gladstone-education.co.uk
Groupcall Messenger provides one easy-to-use solution for Truancy Management & Parental Communications. It gives schools the ability to send e-mail, text messages (SMS) and automated voice calls in any language to the mobile phones and landlines of parents. It is fully integrated with Serco Facility and accesses student, staff and attendance data in real-time, providing a complete solution for instant messaging to parents and the school community. It is installed in over 1000 primary and secondary schools in the UK delivering over 500,000 messages per month and has been independently proven to reduce unauthorised absence and increase attendance.
www.groupcall.co.uk
i2Q (A Synetrix Company) specialise in user centred, integrated platforms for learning. We offer an advanced set of deeply integrated applications including learning platform, VLE, parental engagement, portal, communications and media-rich applications, which run over secure and filtered access infrastructures and which support emerging cloud services, data backup and mobility. From subscription-based software and applications for schools, to complex enterprise-scale regional infrastructure and managed services, over 2 million teachers, learners and parents currently access our services. I2Q delivers standards based interoperability with enterprise Shibboleth IDP and SIF infrastructure deployments fully integrated with a powerful, education focus identity management system ensuring full personalisation. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner.
www.i2Q.co.uk | www.synetrix.co.uk
Keep Kids Safe is a web-based software system that provides two-way, multichannel communications in multiple languages. The straightforward interface and step-by-step processes make it easy to utilise this advanced functionality to communicate effectively and efficiently with parents/carers, pupils, staff, support agencies and the wider school community.
www.keepkidssafe.co.uk
Live Register is the UK’s leading supplier of biometric solutions for schools. Our cashless catering and e-Registration systems will deliver improvements to the efficient running and financial management of your school. Live Register directly integrates with the Facility MIS database automatically synchronising staff and student details and recording AM/PM and lesson marks in real time. Live Register is a powerful yet simple to use bolt on to your existing Facility solution.
www.liveregister.co.uk
MLS have over 25 years experience working at the forefront of library software development and have led the way on a number of successful advancements, including the integration of library resource centre management into the learning platform and VLE. MLS are now working closely with Serco to deliver integration into the Facility management information system as well as other key technologies.
www.microlib.co.uk
Nationwide Retail Systems Ltd. Our Trust-e solution is an essential tool and information provider for both schools and councils and offers a proven solution. It provides schools with a speedy state-of-the-art smooth running cashless system, which increases the throughput of pupils and therefore encourages the uptake of school meals. It also allows schools to monitor meal turnover, free school meal uptake, stocks and wastage together with nutritional details. Our automated link with Serco ensures that all pupil data within Trust-e is updated whenever new pupils arrive or amendments are made. Trust-e operates in both secondary and primary schools and has already been selected by many councils including Kirklees Councils, Croydon Council and Derbyshire Council for their schools.
www.nrsltd.com | www.trust-e.co.uk
Perspective. With the delivery of vocational qualifications involving a collaboration of many parties we recognise the importance of effective student monitoring and information sharing. We have partnered with UK software developer Perspective, who specialise in web-based training and learning solutions, to provide schools and colleges with an effective means of doing so. Collaborative Learning Manager (CLM), an online monitoring platform created by Perspective, will provide secure, user-friendly access to up-to-the-minute data on student attendance and progression whilst ensuring effective communication between all stakeholders. CLM provides real-time data enabling attendance statistics, learner statistics and management reports to be produced quickly and easily.
www.perspective-uk.com
Ramesys is one of the UK’s fastest growing providers of ICT solutions to both education and corporate markets. Around 80% of Ramesys’ business is in the UK schools sector and an important 20% is the provision of solutions and managed services to commercial clients. With aims to continue and strengthen its success within the Building Schools for the Future programme, deliver a quality service to all customers and also give something back to the environment and the community, Ramesys is a highly focused, rapidly growing company.
www.ramesys.com
Room Booking System is the market leading web based resource booking software for schools. Staff can easily book IT rooms, laptop trolleys or other resources from any internet connected computer. Now integrated with Serco Facility, the school’s rooms, timetable data and staff accounts are automatically synced to the Room Booking System. Single sign on from Serco ePortal creates a seamless booking experience for staff. Extensive user permissions allows administrators to organise exactly what each user is allowed to book and when.
www.roombookingsystem.co.uk
SalamanderSoft have just released a set of SharePoint web parts which provide access to the data in Facility CMIS from within SharePoint, allowing pupils, staff and parents access to areas such as core details, attendance, timetables etc. SalamanderSoft also provides a suite of tools which allow automatic provisioning from Facility CMIS to Active Directory, SharePoint, SharePoint Learning Kit and Moodle. These tools automatically ensure that all pupils, staff, parents and sites are set up correctly, with the correct permissions to enable effective learning. The integration is fully customisable to suit your school, users and network.
www.salamandersoft.co.uk
Shireland Learning. The Collegiate Academy Trust runs two schools in Sandwell, Shireland Collegiate Academy (SCA) and the George Salter Collegiate Academy (GSCA). The schools have pioneered the use of Learning Gateways to link all aspects of the schools’ activity from delivery of lessons to integration of MIS and communication to parents. The schools have achieved spectacular results at improving school performance both academically and pastorally. Since GCSA was taken over by Shireland five years ago the proportion of students achieving five or more GCSEs at grades A* – C has improved from 14% to 85%. Sir Mark Grundy and the Senior Management Team attribute a large proportion of this improvement to the way that the Learning Gateway has been implemented at the schools.
www.shireland.sandwell.sch.uk
Smart Assess is a dynamic, progressive organisation with an agenda to improve learning through the development of learning technologies which are being used today in the classrooms of the best schools in the UK. Realsmart is a suite of tools that help you learn through building collaborative learning portfolios which support the process of learning through self, peer and mentor assessment.
www.smartassess.com
Softlink is a world leader in the provision of integrated library and information management software. Softlink has over 10,000 libraries in 108 countries and its solutions operate in ten major languages. Softlink has a global network of over 30 offices and agents, providing localised support and services to its growing client base.
www.softlink.co.uk
Softworks Softworks, provide a student attendance solution to schools across Ireland and the UK. The Softworks Education Attendance Solution is simple, easy to use and to implement with a range of data collection options available to include biometrics. Excellent reporting functionality comes as standard with an optional automatic SMS facility to broadcast sms messages to parents as required. The additional option to install a touch screen terminal in the staff room enables teachers to access reports on the attendance of each individual student thereby providing them with accurate and timely information on demand.
www.softworks-education.com
Truancy Call Ltd’s award winning products are used in over 1000 schools and read/write data from/to facility in real-time. Truancy Call contacts parents by phone, text message and email regarding student lateness and absenteeism, parents can then respond to that contact in the same way. Call Parents is great for general and quick communication to parents by text, phone & email. Additional products for schools and local authorities are: e-mentoring which allows secure and monitored communication between pupils and their mentors by text message, the internet and forums; Term Time Tracker, which monitors pupils whilst away on holiday during school term and provides alerts and Text Someone which allows students to text, phone and email school 24/7 to report bullying or any unwanted behaviour.
www.truancycall.com
VeriCool for Schools is a suite of software that uses Biometric fingertip verification to uniquely identify a student and enables them to register in class or purchase food in the school canteen. VeriCool has been successfully installed in a number of schools across the UK to provide a logical, cost-effective and accurate multi-lesson registration solution for schools wishing to move away from the paper register or OMR, or replace their card-based cashless catering solution. The VeriCool suite of software also includes School Reception (for signing in late students or visitors), Attendance Monitor (administration tool) and a 6th Form Registration Solution.
www.vericool.co.uk
Vivo Miles is an easy-to-use web-based rewards platform, specifically designed for schools by schools. Teachers award students Vivos – a unique currency, which they can save and then spend on the rewards they want from an online catalogue. Closely aligned to all aspects of 'every child matters', Vivo Miles finally offers a self managing rewards system which captures the imagination of all students regardless of talent or ability.
www.vivomiles.com
