We used to use a paper based system of booking appointments for parents evenings resulting in problems seeing specific students and a generally chaotic nature. The system has benefitted us immensely in that the evenings are much easier to administer, it has cut out the need for writing to individual parents to ask them to make the appointments. Evenings run much closer to time and parental attendance has improved hugely from around 70% up to about 85-90% for most year groups.

Feedback from parents has been hugely positive, many parents have found it very easy to use and appreciate the visual design and the email confirmation tools. I'd have no hesitation in recommending the system to other schools.

We have been so impressed, not only with the system and the ease with which we set it up, but also with the excellent level of customer service we have received. If we have had any questions, we have always received extremely prompt answers.

Enhancements to the system are being added all the time. Parental engagement has improved; we have had many more appointments than previously when booking took place through students - even with Year 11s. Parents are happy as they now have appointments with who they want to see, at times more convenient to them.

It's been really good working with you for the past couple of years, thank you for all your great support and enhancements you have made in that time to your really fantastic product.

The launch of this system has generated more positive feedback from parents than anything we have ever done before.

We had a paper based system where staff and students would arrange appointments between themselves. The evenings would overrun and parents would arrive having no idea when their appointments were as their children had lost their sheets. From our own surveys we knew that 23% of parents were unhappy with how the evenings were ran.

Now the evenings run smoothly - 93% of parents are happy with how the evening was ran and we are sending the last parents home 15 minutes after the finishing time which is a massive win. We are seeing a minimum number of missed appointments, as the parents who can and want to come are making the bookings. By being able to put the gap of 1 appointment in we are able to remove the problem of parents not having time to travel to appointments. We are using the reports of parents who haven't made appointments to make contact.

97% of our parents think this new system is an improvement to our old paper based system. We love it, it has revolutionised our parents evenings putting the power back into the hands of parents.

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.

We have been using the Parents Evening System now for about a year and it along with the support service has been great. Parents really like it and the additional new features such as 'parents feedback', 'reports' (giving you an immediate overview of who is attending and how many etc) and 'appointment sheets' (for students, parents and teachers) have been excellent. Thank you for the service - its just what we want and need!

We selected the Parents Evening System for its simplicity, cost and because it was hosted. The team at Parents Evening System have been outstanding. Customer service has been exemplary and they continue to listen and act upon our (and other schools) feedback.

Parents/carers were very impressed with the online booking. Our parents and carers really find the new system very easy to use. They can choose the appointments themselves rather than relying on the students who would 'forget' or 'all appointments have gone' by the time they see the teacher.

We also received a dozen feedback emails through the system, all positive, for example "Such a better way to arrange appointments" and "This is a much better process as it is very fast and easy".

I am extremely pleased with the system. It has saved us so much administrative time as coordinating appointments for parents used to be a major task for one of the clerical staff. I have found support to be most helpful in providing the backup we needed to get us started. It is also reassuring to know that you are listening to what we need and updating the system with new features.

We have had so many positive comments from our parents the following quote is a typical example: "Great system, maintains confidentiality, easy to use and update, with good confirmation emails".

Students used to make appointments for their parents on paper and we were concerned students were able to control or neglect the appointments that they made. Since adopting the Parents Evening System we are now seeing many more parents in attendance at parents' evenings. So many want to come now that we can't fit them all in!

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.

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 worked excellently during and all feedback we received was positive.