Arbor FAQ's

Arbor - Teacher Essentials

Includes information on the following:

Logging In

Taking a class register

Finding student + guardian information

Logging behaviour incidents

Setting detentions

Arbor Help Centre
 

Logging in

Launch an internet browser

Go to the URL - https://st-thomas-more-catholic-school-and-sixth-form-college.uk.arbor.sc

Click the option ‘First time logging in?’ and follow the steps.

Click the link in the email. 

Please note: this link will only be active for 96 hours. If 96 hours has already passed, please ask your admin team to reset your password, or click the link on the login page again.

You can then create a password and log in.

When it is your first time logging in, you will have to read and accept our Terms and Conditions. Tick the box at the bottom, then click Accept.

Returning to Arbor

To log into your school MIS using your school's Arbor site enter your username or email address and password in the boxes, and click Log in.

Taking a class register

Finding the register

On your home screen, you will see a box on the left-hand side called My Calendar as seen below.

You can also go to My items > My Calendar.

From here, click on the class which you'd like to take the register for, which will lead you to the lesson overview. 

From the lesson overview, you can select the ‘Take register’ option, which will open your class register!

Or you can go to My Items > My Classes and select your next lesson from here.

Note: If you are taking a class for another teacher, use the search box to find the teacher, then click their calendar on the left and select the class.

Taking the register

The display can be switched to List view or Profile view by clicking on the respective button:

• To take attendance in list view, click on the drop-down list next to each student name and select the appropriate mark.
• To take attendance in profile view, click on the appropriate mark. 

You can also choose to skip to the next student by clicking on Skip.

On the right-hand side you can see either the student's past attendance for today or for the week, depending on what your school has set up. 

To add a mark, click Absent, Late or Present.

If you mark a student as Absent you'll see a pop up where you can select the absent mark. If your school has chosen to restrict the available attendance marks, you might not be able to select between all absence marks.

If you mark a student as late, you can input how late the student was.

The quickest way to enter marks for your present students is to click the Mark All Blanks as Present button, either at the top of the page (if all students are present) or at the bottom once just the absences and lates are entered.

To return to the lesson overview click on Return To Lesson Dashboard.

Finding Student / Guardian Information

In the Search box in the top right as you start to enter information Arbor will display any students (or other users) whose names begin with the letters you type.

If you see the student you require displayed in the list, you can select them to be taken directly to their profile.

Clicking View all results will take you to the Global Search, where you can see all past and future students with that name.

Badges show throughout the site to flag student context. e.g. Pupil Premium. SEN (Special Educational Needs), EAL (English as an additional language) etc.

For faster navigation and the option to jump to a specific section, you can filter the Student profile by clicking the View drop-down and selecting from the list.

Below the View drop-down will be any ‘Pinned’ items 

Clicking on any pinned item displays a slide over showing additional information and the ability to edit the item if applicable.

On the right-hand side of the student profile you can see the student's Emergency contacts are displayed.

You can see a calendar for the student - click an event to jump to the particular event's overview.

See the student's attendance so far today for the lesson registers that have a mark in.

Logging Behaviour and Setting Detentions

The Detentions dashboard

Go to Students > Behaviour > Detentions. Here you can view the list of Upcoming detention sessions and Recent detention sessions.

Clicking on the detention and clicking the More information button takes you to that particular detention session.

Add students to a particular Upcoming or Recent detention, click on the detention and click the orange buttons in the slide over.

If your school have set up their detentions policy to not allow ad-hoc detentions, you won't be able to add students without logging an incident.

When you log a new behaviour incident there is a minimum requirement of information you will need to record the incident:

• Date and Time of Incident - The date and time can be set. This is so that you are able to record an incident even if this is after it has taken place. 
• Students involved - The 'Students involved' section allows you to identify the pupils that were involved in the incident.  You can add additional students after the incident has been created. 
• Staff involved - Staff Involved will automatically add the staff member logging the incident. You can add additional staff after the incident has been created.

• Additional details - You can also note relevant information in the summary section, as well as link the incident to a timetabled period and site/location.
• Create as separate incidents - Ticking this box will create separate incident records for each student involved rather than grouping all students listed in one group.

For more information on Arbor a great resource is the Arbor Help Centre which you can find on the left-hand side of the homepage. This has many detailed videos/guides on everything listed in this guide and more.