Pillar: Community
Lead directorate: Education
Overview
The ACT Government is improving school management systems and connection across school communities by investing in the School Administration System (SAS). SAS provides enhanced capability to support schools in areas such as student information, incident management and academic reporting.
Benefits
ACT public schools will digitally record attendance, enabling auto notification via text message and summarised reports for parents and carers of students that have not attended school.
The Wellbeing module allows the logging of positive and negative incidents. It also provides visibility of information critical for the management of an individual student’s wellbeing, e.g. Individual Learning Plans.
Academic reports will record student progress and be available electronically for parents and carers. Parent Portal will provide the ability to make information available to parents such as excursion forms, and payments.
Status update
| Date | Update |
|---|---|
| March 2021 | The SAS Program has delivered enhanced capabilities to support ACT schools across the following areas:
The staged release of these modules has enabled schools to integrate the system within their settings, and ensure the necessary staff support and change management is in place. There are currently 80 schools using the Finance module, with the final 9 schools to be onboarded in May. The Parent Portal module proof of concept is underway and provides the ability for all contact and information to be made directly available to parents. |