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 previously had a paper based system where pupils visited each teacher to get an appointment and then usually lost the slip before it got to parents! Using the Parents Evening System, evenings are running more to time, more parents are attending and the system gives them control over which teachers they would like to see and what times they can attend. The majority of comments from parents have been overwhelmingly positive. I absolutely recommend this to other schools and already have done!

Since using the Parents Evening System we have had better parental attendance which in turn has improved parental engagement. It has also improved communication between parents and the school as well as help organise parents' evenings more efficiently. I would not hesitate to recommend the system to any school.

The system was easy to set up, even though we have set classes as well as normal classes. Telephone support was both quick and knowledgeable. The period leading up to the actual parents' evening allowed me to print out who was not yet booked and therefore nag parents. After the event we were able to analyse who didn't show or even book and target them to find out why.

I received about 30 - 40 email comments from parents which were all very positive. I have recommended this system to several schools and we will be using it again in October for our next round of 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.

Before using your system all arrangements were done by letter and via teaching staff. I was initially concerned because I didn't think I (or the parents) would understand the system, however our parents love it! Benefits for us have been a much speedier response from parents, less time consuming for the office, prints up records of times, etc. I would like to point out that your guidance, patience and tact were all essential as we set the system. We would happily recommend to others.

The system has been fantastic and remarkably easy to use both for staff and parents. Previously the parents evening involved the pupils choosing the teachers they would like their parent to see and filling in times on pieces of paper.

This system has totally reversed this and put the parents in charge and let them choose which teachers to see. The only downside which is not a fault of the system is that it made it very visible to parents when all the slots were full! This was the only type of complaint that we had. This has been very popular with the vast majority of parents.

We previously booked appointments via students and teachers with a paper system. Initially we were concerned about the flexibility of the Parents Evening System but this has so far proved to be ideal for our needs. The benefits we have noticed are the reduction of admin time required, increase in appointments and appointments being arranged as soon as they go live. The feedback from parents has been positive. We would definitely recommend to other schools based on our experience and the support provided.

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