Ofsted early warning and DfE compliance, across every school.
Realsmart checks your school websites against the DfE’s publishing requirements every night, emails you when a visit looks like an inspector reading your website before an inspection, and keeps every pupil and member of staff signed in to Google, Microsoft and Apple from one MIS record. One partner, for one school or a whole trust.
Compliance and Ofsted early warning
The first thing an inspector sees of a school is often its website. Realsmart watches it for you, and keeps the policies, statutory pages and sign-in rules your schools are measured against up to date, school by school or across the whole trust.
Hear when an inspector may be reading your website
When a visit to one of your school websites looks like an inspector working through your statutory information, such as safeguarding, SEND, pupil premium and policies, we check it and email the people you’ve chosen. Trusts can be told too, so the central team isn’t the last to know.
- Ofsted website alerts to up to five people at each school
- Every suspicious visit checked by AI before anyone is emailed, so routine traffic doesn’t set it off
- Trust alerts for every member school, with recipients chosen in Trust Hub
- Trust Hub flags schools that may be in their inspection window, using Ofsted’s own inspection dates
- A plain-English reading age for your pages and documents, so families and inspectors can follow them
It’s an early warning, not a prediction: inspectors usually phone the day before, and this can give you a little longer.
See the trust features →Every school checked against the DfE, every night
Every Realsmart school website checks itself against what the DfE says its type of school must and should publish, with no set-up, and the trust website against the requirements for trusts. We open the policies themselves, in PDF, Word, Google Drive or OneDrive, read the text inside, and show where each requirement was found.
- Trust Hub: every school against what the DfE expects, a board report for trustees and a Monday briefing email
- Out-of-date documents, deadlines and an old trust’s name still on a page, flagged for you, with a template for any page that’s missing
- Safer sign-in: two-factor sign-in for every admin, 2FA defaults set once for the whole trust, and the DfE cyber security password standard for any school that switches it on
- An acceptable use policy at sign-in if you want one, with a report of who has accepted it
Real Realsmart screens, recorded with fictional schools and people.
Built for multi-academy trusts
Trust Hub gives the central team every school website in one place.
- Share news and pages with every school, or just some, and see where each one landed
- Put an alert, a countdown or an emergency pop-up on every school website at once
- See every school’s compliance against the DfE, and print a board report for trustees
- Get Ofsted visit alerts for every school, and a Monday briefing for the central team
- Take in news, events and vacancies that your schools offer to the trust website
Websites, accounts and sign-in from one team
Most schools juggle a website provider, a sync tool, a sign-in system and a parents app. Realsmart does all four, and they share one record of who is in your school.
See the whole trust at once
- Trust Hub: which schools need attention, and why
- Send an alert, or a shared menu link, to every school website at once
- One admin sign-in across every school you’re responsible for
- Trace any account across the trust, and merge duplicates
A website that keeps you compliant
- Designed for your school, never a template, with a refresh every three years
- Your compliance score on the dashboard, must-haves first
- Policies pulled straight from Google Drive or OneDrive
- Bold alerts, countdowns and emergency pop-ups for closures
Accounts that look after themselves
- MIS sync to Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Apple School Manager and Active Directory
- Preview every change before it happens, and freeze the summer churn
- Google Classrooms and Microsoft 365 licences handed out automatically
- Holiday pauses, session limits and per-admin permissions
Classes ready on day one
- A Google Classroom for every teaching group, with the right pupils in it
- Reset a pupil’s password, or print QR login cards by registration group
- Every app a teacher uses, on one Launchpad
- Write to parents with notices, pictures and attachments
One sign-in, everything in one place
- A Launchpad they can arrange, with their own links and backgrounds
- QR code sign-in for younger pupils, and word passwords they can type
- Change their own password and photo, where the school allows it
- Single sign-on to Google, Microsoft and the apps your school uses
Smart Parents, the school in their pocket
- Notices with push notifications, pictures and attachments
- A report of who each notice reached
- Teachers can write to the families of their own classes
- Your school’s colour in the app
What’s new for your staff and pupils
Everything below is included for Realsmart schools. Nothing to buy, and nothing to install.
A Launchpad that’s theirs
Pupils and staff arrange their apps, pin favourites, add their own links and pick a background. Trusts can set the order for every school.
How it works →Their own profile
A profile area on the sign-in site where people change their own password and photo, within the rules the school sets.
A notification bell
Important notices from Realsmart reach the right people, students, staff or admins, in the bar at the top of every Realsmart page.
Today’s timetable
What’s now and next in the bar, today on the Launchpad, a week view, and what’s coming up from Google Classroom and school events.
Working with UK schools since 2004
Realsmart recently supported our Trust in the redesign of 4 school websites and a Trust website. I found the team to be enormously patient in supporting me to achieve what we wanted with the sites, and highly responsive to queries – it seemed that nothing was too much trouble. It also felt like the team had a real appreciation for our budget constraints – I am convinced that working with them delivered excellent value for money for both the schools and for the Trust. I would highly recommend them as a partner.
We have worked with Realsmart for over ten years and are currently working with the web development team to refresh all of our school websites. I could not recommend the team enough. They are friendly and approachable and at the same time very skilled and extremely professional with their work. Their customer service is exemplary and second to none and they completely understand the school sector and what is important to schools.
See it working for your schools
Book a demo and we’ll show you the compliance checks, Ofsted website alerts and sync working the way they would for your school or trust, and answer any questions about cost.
Call us on 01302 361132 or email realsmart@realsmart.co.uk. Already with us and need help? Email support@realsmart.co.uk.