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Every school runs on its MIS, and every school relies on Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Active Directory and Apple School Manager. Keeping them all in step by hand takes hours of repetitive admin every week, and it only takes one typo to break a login on the morning of an exam. Realsmart Sync is the MIS sync for schools: it connects your MIS to every platform you run and keeps the whole lot in perfect step — automatically, visibly, reversibly.

It works with SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom and every other MIS supported by Wonde, and it was built in the UK for UK schools and multi-academy trusts.

Why “glass box”?

Most school sync tools are black boxes: you press the button, cross your fingers, and find out at 8:45am what actually happened, if anything at all! Realsmart Sync is a glass box. Before anything runs, you can read the exact plan it will execute. While it runs, you can watch every action land. Afterwards, every change is written to an audit trail. Nothing is hidden, nothing is hand wavy and nothing irreversible happens without you typing it out in full.

• Preview mode on every platform: run the real sync logic and see the full process outlined with nothing applied
• Live dashboards: every success, error and retry message grouped by type, with plain English “what to do about this” guidance
• Read-only live checks: interrogate Google and Entra data directly from a user’s record, no admin console needed, it’s all in one place.
• Append only audit and logs: who changed what, when, and from where for full accountability.
• Reversible by design: deletions are soft and restorable, Classroom archiving can be undone, merges keep full history

One MIS feed. Every platform. Per-school control.

Each integration is a toggle of a switch, not a project. Turn platforms on or off per school, and flip any platform into preview mode at any time. The sync keeps on planning, but stops touching your data until you flip it back.

Google Workspace sync for schools

Everything your Google environment needs, provisioned from the MIS, see our dedicated MIS to Google sync page for the full story.

• Accounts created, updated, suspended and restored straight from the MIS data.
• Organisational unit placement driven by templates (/Students/{YEAR}, teaching vs non-teaching staff, suspended OUs) With a live preview of where every member will land
• Group sync with full Google group settings (posting, moderation, discovery) controlled per group
• Google Classroom provisioned from your timetable, with end-of-term archiving policy and a fallback owner so a course is never orphaned when a teacher leaves
• Guardian invitations for Classroom managed in bulk
• Full timetables synced to Google Calendar, per user, with one click re-sync ability

Microsoft Entra & Microsoft 365 sync

Provision Microsoft 365 for your whole school from the same MIS feed. Users, groups, Teams and licences, all visible in the same glass box.

• User provisioning with your UPN domain, straight from the MIS
• Group and Teams synced, plus administrative units by year and role
• Automatic Microsoft 365 licence assignment by SKU. New starters are licensed before their first lesson!
• Default password policy for learners and staff, as complex as you want to set it
• Live permission tests that verify every granted scope (read users, manage groups, assign licences) in seconds

Active Directory sync (on-prem)

A lightweight connector runs on your Windows Server and takes its orders from the same glass-box engine. So your on-prem environment gets the same visibility as your cloud. Find more details on our Active Directory sync page.

• OU mapping for staff and students, teaching vs non-teaching, leavers, home folders and profile paths with wildcards
• Year group and intake year mapping, plus attribute mapping onto AD fields
• Password sync down to AD, with an encrypted queue and a full per-user update log
• A preview export showing the exact rows the connector will apply, downloadable as CSV
• Exclusions and a test mode that runs the whole sync without writing a thing

Apple School Manager sync

Managed Apple IDs without the spreadsheet wrangling, see our Apple School Manager sync page.

• The full OneRoster CSV bundle built automatically from your MIS data
• Uploaded to Apple over SFTP on demand or via a daily schedule
• Test the connection, build the export, preview every CSV and upload, four separate, easy and visible steps

Proof before you press go

This is the heart of “glass”. Anyone can promise a school MIS sync; we show you the plan first, computed by the same code that runs live.

Moving to Realsmart from another sync tool? or even from no tool at all! Cloud reconciliation audits the Google estate you already have and lines it up with your MIS before the sync ever goes live. It sorts every account, group and Classroom into four piles (already lined up, needs a decision, only in Google, only in Realsmart), spots systematic naming differences, and proposes matching rules you confirm once, instead of matching hundreds of items by hand.

Built for multi-academy trusts

Realsmart Sync is trust native, not school software with a workaround bolted on. Explore all our MAT features.

• A trust-wide overview: every school, every platform, user counts and sync health at a glance
• Find a single person across every school in the trust, with per-school status and one click log tracing
• A cross-trust activity timeline that follows one person’s accounts through every school, we know staff can switch schools in a trust.
• A guided merge wizard for duplicate people across schools. Compare fields, preview consequences, and undo from the merge history
• Per-admin school access: full or reduced, reviewed and changed from one screen
• App defaults pushed to every school’s launchpad in one action
• Shared Google domain “trust authority” so schools stop undoing each other’s work

End of year, without the fear

Summer is where school sync tools break schools. Ours freezes instead: after your final provision date the window closes, summer MIS churn is held, and everything resumes automatically for the new year. Reconciling new classes, moved year groups and leavers in one pass. Before any of it happens, you can run the entire end of term as a dry run for peace of mind.

• A visible provisioning window with editable freeze and resume dates
• School wide Classroom archiving policy, overridable per group and reversible
• End of term tidy-up for protected users and groups, with Classroom-ownership warnings and type-to-confirm deletion (soft, restorable, logged)
• Stale orphan review for cloud accounts that no longer exist in the MIS

Everyday admin, minus the drudgery

• Bulk actions across any selection of users: status, passwords, 2FA, QR login cards, roles, group membership
• Password rules, expiry and 2FA enrolment per school, for staff and students independently
• Imports that can’t hurt you: user import with column mapping and row by row validation (nothing queues until every row is clean), plus password and cohort imports with matched/unmatched previews
• One-click CSV exports. Users, logins, groups, emails, AD and Apple bundles, plus a daily snapshot of exactly what your MIS has sent
• A read only browser for your Wonde origin data, so you can tell in seconds whether an issue is in the source or the sync
• A read only, scope limited API with per-token permissions for your own integrations

All of it, in one price

Everything on this page is one product. Google, Microsoft, Active Directory and Apple included. MAT tooling included. The preview engine, the audit trail, the end of year automation, all included. No per-platform modules, no add-ons, no “enterprise tier” for the safety features every school deserves. Most schools recover the cost in saved admin time within the first term, and keep the peace of mind forever.

See your own data in glass. Book a demo and we’ll connect your MIS in preview mode, you’ll watch the full plan for your school appear without a single change being made. That’s the point. Questions first? Get in touch.

Frequently asked questions

Which MIS does Realsmart Sync work with?

Realsmart Sync connects to your MIS through Wonde, so it works with SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom and the other management information systems Wonde supports. If Wonde can read it, we can sync it.

Can we sync to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 at the same time?

Yes. Each platform is an independent, per-school toggle many of our schools run Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra, Active Directory and Apple School Manager side by side from the same MIS feed, and each platform can be in live or preview mode independently.

Do we need to install anything?

For Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Apple School Manager… nothing. They’re cloud-to-cloud. For on-prem Active Directory there’s a lightweight connector that runs on your Windows Server and authenticates with a school specific token.

Is it safe to try alongside our current setup?

Yes, that’s exactly what the preview mode is for. We connect your MIS, the sync composes a full plan for your school, and nothing is applied until you switch the platform to live. If you already have a Google environment, cloud reconciliation lines it up with your MIS first so the sync adopts your existing accounts instead of duplicating them.

What happens at the end of the school year?

The provisioning window freezes over the summer on a final provision date that can be set by you, Google Classrooms are archived according to your policy, and sync resumes automatically for the new year, with a full dry-run preview available before any of it happens.

Does it support multi-academy trusts?

Fully. A trust-wide overview, cross school user search and log tracing, duplicate merging with undo, per-admin school access and trust-wide app defaults are all built in, one subscription, every school.

All screenshots in this post show our demonstration trust and test data.