The school used an elaborate and complicated system involving lost pieces of paper and bookings mistakenly made by the school on behalf of parents. This electronic system empowers the parents allowing them to make choices based around their own busy lives. We have 2,700 pupils across our 3 schools and their parents universally agree this system is far better. The administration staff work load is greatly reduced and the parents choose their own appointments. More efficient all round.

The system is very popular among parents and staff at Corfe Hills. The feedback so far has been consistently positive. It is very easy to use and the time saved in admin has been considerable. Highly recommended.

The system is great - it is easy to load for the administrator and gives parents a much more efficient booking process with greater choice. We previously used a "homemade" database system which was ok but we had to book the appointments internally from slips returned from students.

The Parents Evening System is definitely time saving - fewer phone calls to the college to change appointment dates/times. It's also convenient for parents to select the most suitable evening. Staff can view appointments in real time and re-allocate if necessary. Feedback from parents was very positive and I'd recommend this to others.

We love the system! Previously we arranged sign up sessions for the parents to come into school to make their appointments. Invariably, a proportion of parents would then call us to change their appointments. The appointment sheets became scruffy with crossings out and from being handled by so many different people. On occasions, appointment sheets have been mislaid requiring phone calls to all parents in a class.

It saves us so much time, looks more professional and is a more effective system. The reduction in stress caused to the admin assistants is also significant! Feedback from parents has been positive - it's far more convenient for them. I have already recommended this other schools!

The on-line booking system has been very helpful. Previously, our parents signed up on paper lists. From an admin point of view, the programme is easy to look at and to operate. Thank you, we look forward to using the Parents Evening System in the future.

In the past we had a paper based set up where forms were given to students and they would make their appointments with teachers. Using the Parents Evening System gives us much more control over the evening and offers online reports. It's also time saving from the students point of view. There's definitely more parents attending and parents love the new system.

We have used the Parent's Evening System for 2 parents' evenings and been very happy with it. It cuts down on the work that our teaching assistants have to do and also the office staff as we used to use paper lists which we updated from the reply slips of letters. Parents too have got used to using the system and on the whole seem to like it.

I particularly like the way it interfaces with SIMS as it is so simple to use. It is a very simple and easy system to use and I would definitely recommend it to other schools. I also really like the reporting facility and the charts.

Prior to the new system, pupils had to take their planners to their teachers who would book their appointments. The feedback we had from parents was very supportive of the new booking system. Parents now take responsibility for making appointments and now many more attend the parents evenings.

Previous to our trial with your system, we were working with a manual system that included a grid per evening showing all of our classes, marked into ten minute slots. We had to send a letter home to parents giving them a choice of dates and asking them to request a time slot, then plot all of the reply slips onto the grid, making sure all siblings followed on from each other, and at the same time, filling in a reply slip back to the parents to give them their allocated slot. We then had to fill out a table for each teacher, for each evening, giving them their allocated appointments. A very lengthy and tedious task!

Our main concerns prior to piloting the system were of password/access problems for parents and of failure of the system to recognise and block out the same time slots for a sibling. The benefits of the system are numerous. Primarily, the set up took very little time and we were able to contact the parents swiftly using the letter templates provided. We had a great response from the parents after using the system, and the way the system allowed them to 'feedback' to us was great. Teachers were pleased with the look of their time slot sheets and the attendance charts were also a great tool. I have already recommended your system to other Business Managers.

The system is great and we have had so many more appointments than ever before because of it. Parents find it easy to use which is crucial. We really think it's changed how we work with parents.

The Parents Evening System has totally changed how our school runs parent evenings and has proved a huge success. We hold 7 subject parent evenings and 1 tutor parent evening a year. These are easy to run from our end and our parents love the new system. We are also able to provide exact statistics on the parents that attend and pinpoint parents that don't!

We were really pleased by the parents' evening arrangements - we received good support in the set-up phase and then enjoyed lots of enthusiastic feedback from parents.

Parents used to send in a slip with their preferred date and time and teachers tried to accommodate the appointments so sibling times were close together. A note was then sent home to confirm the time allocated. The Parents Evening System has saved time for both teaching staff and parents as parents book their own appointments online.

Before using the system, each class teacher would arrange their own times with parents and had to do their own chasing up. The Parents Evening System has saved us lots of time and we like how all the appointments are centralized. The feedback from parents has been really positive. It's an excellent system, would recommend to any school.

This system has definitely improved parents' evenings and we have had some really positive feedback from parents. Previously children used to bring slips into school and had to find times from each teacher. It does appear that more parents make more appointments this way as it is easy for them to do so, especially not relying on the children. We would recommend the system to other schools.

At our school, we have found that the new system saves the class teachers' time, as they no longer have to organise the appointment slots. Parents have also liked it as they are able to choose a slot that is most convenient to them. I would recommend it to other schools, because as a teacher as I like the lack of paper!

Previously we used paper going back and forth from parents to teachers. I was initially concerned about how much resistance I was going to get from staff as control of the night was out of their hands.

Anecdotally our attendance from parents is way up - mainly because we aren't counting on the students to take a letter back and forth, knowing straight away which students haven't booked appointments is also a benefit, as it allows us to contact parents before the evening as opposed to after. It's also helped us realize that for some of our year groups we might have to run two nights, whereas previously a teacher would have juggled their appointments and chosen not to see some parents, now they can't do that easily, and it's noticeable that Teacher A has 54 slots fully booked, but another 20 parents that want to see him.

It's almost universally loved by our parents. The only complaint I can remember about the system specifically was from a grandparent who didn't want to use a computer to set up the appointments... we set them for him. I have recommended it to my own children's school, and I have fielded calls from quite a few of the lower schools in the area after parents of our students have suggested it - for every one of those calls I have fully endorsed it.

The system worked excellently during and all feedback we received was positive.