In modern day schools, data is everywhere, but managing it effectively is often a manual, limited, time-consuming burden. Many sync tools on the market simply “copy and paste” information from your Management Information System (MIS) to your cloud platforms, often leading to messy organisational units, groups and user issues.
At Realsmart, we’ve built something different. Our school MIS Sync tool is already widely considered the best in the market because it doesn’t just move data, it gives you a high-level web interface to control exactly how your data is shaped, managed and delivered.
One tool for every platform
Most schools struggle with fragmented basic systems. They need to manage users in Google for learning, Active Directory for local networks, and Apple School Manager for iPads. Our tool is the ultimate “multi-sync” solution, taking data from your MIS and seamlessly provisioning it across the entire tech stack:
- Google Workspace for Education: Automate everything from user creation to Classroom management.
- Active Directory (AD): Say goodbye to manual provisioning; we sync MIS data directly to your AD instance, automating OUs and account movements.
- Microsoft Entra: Keep your Microsoft identity management in perfect sync with your MIS records.
- Apple School Manager: Automatically provision staff and students and create Apple Classroom classes with a few clicks.
Solving Real School Problems
We don’t just provide a school MIS sync; we provide a way to make teaching and learning smoother. Our “Smartadmin” dashboard allows trust and school admins to solve immediate problems that standard sync tools ignore:
- Classroom Automation: No more class codes; Classrooms are automatically created and updated based on MIS teaching groups.
- Timetable Integration: Sync staff and student timetables directly to Google Calendars, including room details.
- Empowering Teachers: Any teacher can reset student passwords instantly, preventing technical hiccups from derailing a lesson.
- Security & Identity: Set custom password policies and upload MIS photos to Google Profiles for a professional, secure environment.
A big update is coming to our school MIS sync tool
While we are proud of being the “best-in-market” solution, we aren’t standing still. We are constantly evolving our product based on the bespoke requirements of our schools.
We are excited to announce that a major update is coming soon. This update is designed to make the sync even more powerful, providing deeper flexibility and even more control for Multi-Academy Trusts managing dozens of schools from a single dashboard.
Take a sneak peek below at some of the screenshots coming directly from our team of developers.
Just to highlight some of the new features we have built into the new version of smartAdmin:
- A more powerful Dashboard: All of the important features straight to your fingertips, New and suspended users displayed, instant suspend actions. Actions that allow you to sync now to all or single services.
- End of Year Management: An area to manage all of the end of year processes, this includes sync postponement date, resume date and a step by step guide on performing an end of year tidy up
- Wonde data interrogation: take a closer look at all of the Wonde data that is coming directly from the MIS to help troubleshoot missing users or identify what is available.
- Advanced Features: Create your own API connections into realsmart and use your own data how you please. Build your own apps that access your own data, with the help of realsmart.
- Merge Users: Got a returning user? Need to merge a newly created account with an older one? We’ve got the tool for you.
This is just a small selection of what is coming but we think you will agree that it all sounds quite exciting.
A few legacy features
| Feature | The Realsmart Advantage |
|---|---|
| Control | A flexible dashboard to manage what is sent to Google, Apple, Microsoft not just a copy. |
| Transparency | Complete logs on every piece of data sent and received. |
| Speed | Continuous ad-hoc syncs throughout the day for instant changes. |
| Value | All of our tools come under a single price, you choose how little/much you want to use. Might as well get your money’s worth. |
If you’re looking for a web application that allows you to easily manage all of your users, groups and more then Realsmart’s school MIS sync is the engine that makes it happen.
Stay tuned over the summer for more news on how the most powerful sync tool on the market is about to get even better.