Training Webinar Schedule

Training Webinar Schedule

Introduction

This page is regularly updated with details of webinar training that is available to book - so save the dates!  If you have any queries or would like to enquire about bespoke training, please get in touch with our training team by emailing training.uk@compass.education 


February 2025

Thursday 27th February : Spring Webinar Series - Admin Essentials Part B

A focus session on the main duties of your Administrative and Office team including logging, monitoring and recording Attendance. 


March 2025

Thursday 6th March : Spring Webinar Series - Reporting in Compass 

During this session we will demonstrate how to create key reports in:
- Student Profile Pages for individual attendance
- the Attendance Module for detailed Attendance data, emergency reports and unexplained absences
- People Management to export medical details, create customised CSV reports and Census
We will also demonstrate the capabilities of our data and analytics module, Pulse, for viewing and analysing your school data and information


Thursday 13th March : Spring Webinar Series - Assessment Management

During this session we will demonstrate how to utilise the Assessment Management module by creating Master Assessments tasks for formative and summative assessments.
Statutory Assessments are available by default in your portal but create custom processes to be graded by Teachers from their Class Pages.

We will also demonstrate how to create Markbooks for analysis and how to pull these into the Pulse module 



Thursday 20th March : Enrolments (for Admissions)

During this session we will demonstrate how to configure your Application form and the process for schools to share the admission form with parents*. Also covered is the process of managing submitted applications in the Enrolments module all the way through to enrolling the student into the People Management module as a future student.

*This will depend on whether you are a Local Authority Maintained school and receive ATFs or whether you are an independent school that requires parents to apply directly. Both processes will be covered in the session.


Tuesday 25th March : Canteen Management

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WILL BE SENT AND MUST BE WATCHED PRIOR TO THE WEBINAR TO CONFIRM HOW YOUR LUNCHES WILL BE ORDERED. 
In this session we will run through the process of creating and publishing your school menus within the Canteen Management module. In addition to adding menu items and setting availability, we will demonstrate how you can add allowances for Free School Meal eligibility, run order reports and check students' Wallet balances*.

*Schools that require parents to top up a Wallet balances will be asked to confirm a maximum negative amount for parents in arrears.
*A Stripe account will need to be created to process payments through Compass. Please contact training.uk@compass.education to request your individual link.


April 2025


May 2025

Thursday 8th May : Completing your ☀️ Summer Census ☀️ in Compass

Whether it's your first time completing a Census return in your Compass portal, or would simply like a refresher, join us to run through the Statutory Census Returns module for your Summer Census.
Our UK-specific Statutory Census Returns module provides the functionality to check your data, validate this against the Department for Education validation rules, and Authorise your School Census.

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Census Consultation invitations will be sent if you would like to book a personal session with our Compliance Specialists to address any queries


Thursday 22nd May : Summer Webinar Series - Introduction to Compass 

The first session of the Onboarding Phase of Training for our new schools (current schools also welcome!).
During this Introduction to Compass, we will cover the fundamentals of navigating your Compass portal to set you up for the remaining onboarding training sessions. We will touch on:
  1. Your Compass Home Page
  2. Register Marking
  3. Class Pages
  4. Student Profile Pages
  5. Compass Comms 
  6. Support Resources
Registration Coming Soon!

June 2025

Thursday 5th June : Summer Webinar Series - Admin Essentials Part A 

A focus session for Administrative and Office staff to manage the life cycle of a student in Compass including adding new starters, editing and updating records, off-rolling a student and running relevant reports.

Registration Coming Soon!

Thursday 12th June : Summer Webinar Series - Admin Essentials Part B

The next focus session for Administrative and Office staff for managing Attendance including logging, monitoring and recording data.

Registration Coming Soon!


Thursday 19th June : Summer Webinar Series - Reporting in Compass 

During this session we will demonstrate how to create key reports in:
- Student Profile Pages for individual attendance
- the Attendance Module for detailed Attendance data, emergency reports and unexplained absences
- People Management to export medical details, create customised CSV reports and Census
We will also demonstrate the capabilities of our data and analytics module, Pulse, for viewing and analysing your school data and information

Registration Coming Soon!

Thursday  26th June: Summer Webinar Series - Assessment Management

During this session we will demonstrate how to create key reports in:
- Student Profile Pages for individual attendance
- the Attendance Module for detailed Attendance data, emergency reports and unexplained absences
- People Management to export medical details, create customised CSV reports and Census
We will also demonstrate the capabilities of our data and analytics module, Pulse, for viewing and analysing your school data and information

Registration Coming Soon!


July 2025