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Recent updates - February 2025

We're kicking off 2025 with two fantastic new features - check-ins and class passes - designed to help schools improve staff and student wellbeing. As usual, there's also plenty of smaller improvements too.

Staff profile picture Ben DunfordFebruary 2025 - 4 minute read

Check-ins

Available now

We're extremely excited to announce that our long-awaited Check-ins feature is now live! Check-ins are designed to help schools be more proactive in their monitoring of both staff and student wellbeing.

With our new Check-ins feature, staff and students can quickly check in on our website, either daily or weekly, depending on the school's preference. Check-ins will also ask what the person's main worry is right now, helping build up a more useful picture over time and allowing schools to be more targeted in their approach to resolving concerns.

As always, we've built some powerful reporting tools to help schools identify trends and issues that need to be addressed, available to school leaders.

Epraise check-ins for staff and students

Class Passes

Available now

The second big release in this update is our new Class Passes feature. We talked to a lot of schools last year who told us that students being out of the classroom is a big and growing issue because there are no good systems to track who has been given permission and who has not, nor any systems that can help them identify any concerning trends across individuals and groups.

Class Passes solve this issue by allowing staff to issue predefined passes, with preset expiry times to their students. Passes are automatically revoked after the set time or when marked as complete, and any member of staff can check on upcoming, active, and expired passes easily via the Class Pass Supervision page.

As you'd expect, we've also built our usual reporting tools that will help you find students that are requesting an unreasonable number of passes, or who are frequently out of the classroom, as well as spot broader trends that need to be addressed.

Epraise class passes

Other notable improvements

Available now

As always, we've been working on a long list of smaller incremental improvements - here are some examples:

  • We've added links to the house group references on student and staff profiles.
  • We've added the ability to add an intervention directly from the interventions table within a group.
  • We've added a tutor group filter to the student leaderboard.
  • We've increased the character limit on marksheet comments.
  • We've improved the navigation menu to allow scrolling when necessary.
  • We've added a new support and feedback section.
  • We've added push notification preferences to user profiles.
  • We've updated our policies and launched our new trust centre at trust.epraise.co.uk.
  • And much more!

Mobile push notification preferences

Coming soon

We're bringing the push notification preferences we recently added to student profiles to our mobile applications. This will allow you to customise the push notifications you receive so you can prioritise the information that's important to you.

Check-ins extensions

Coming soon

We'll be adding some further improvements to our check-ins functionality, including bringing our new check-ins functionality to our mobile applications. This will make it much easier and more convenient for staff and students to complete their check-ins.

Class pass extensions

Coming soon

We'll be adding some further improvements to our class passes functionality, including enhancements to the overview and insights on student profiles. This will make it easier for school leaders to spot issues that need to be addressed, such as students requesting an unreasonable number of passes.

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