Features

TALAXY licence is modular

Once you have purchased the core solution; you buy the modules you need – when you need them

TALAXY Core

TALAXY core solution allows parents, pupils and staff to:

Parent or pupil

View only: personal data, timetables, attendance, behaviour, detentions (direct from your MIS) events, news, school reports, gallery.

Log: chats

Staff

View only: pupil data, attendance, behaviour, grades, demographics, graphical analysis, contact details

Log and manage: chat, broadcast, key data analysis (TARGET), reports, events, gallery.

*Further data can be viewed by parents and pupils when using additional modules.

Register Module

Take a register.

Linking with your MIS, all timetables, statutory and lesson registration will auto link to TALAXY and is read/write. Registers can be taken on any device with a web browser including Mobile, Chromebook, Fire Tablet.

Homework, behaviour, grading, reports can also be logged and generated directly from a register which means fewer clicks and opening of tabs for staff trying to find where to log information and to have to ‘start again’ finding lists of pupils to log data.

Room & Resource Booking Module

Create your resource index; number of tablets, minibus, calculators…..and staff can book using a simple calendar.

Empty rooms can also be booked by staff as and when at any time.

This information will also appear on the users calendar as a reminder of the booking.

Assessment Module

Link your MIS marksheets into TALAXY and staff can enter grades from anywhere. Grades will sync to your MIS making this feature read/write.

TALAXY also enables you to create non MIS marksheets, great for extra class, pupil premium progress, attainment without levels and homework grading for example. This also means as a Non MIS establishment or a MIS establishment not using MIS timetables (PRU, provision, Primary school, HMS establishments, you can create your own grading.

Various grading reports are available including missing grades reports and graphical analysis via TARGET.

Video conferencing

Communicate online with parents, pupils and staff ‘virtually’ using our video communication module. Virtually meet with others – either by video or voice simply in the comfort of their office or home.

Seating Plan Module

TALAXY seating plans are simple to use and easy accessible from a register.

As TALAXY looks at roomID, only one member of staff has to create the ‘seating plan layout’ for their room. This is now available for all staff to use when teaching in that class. All teachers need to do is add pupils to the seats. Saves time for teachers using multiple rooms!

Pupils can be added to seats manually or by using TALAXY auto seat generator adding pupils by filters including ‘below progress at front’ ‘naughtiest at the front’ ‘ girl/boy’ ‘alphabetical order’…

Seating plans include pupil data including SEN, FSM, PP, behaviour points, attendance, notes, detentions … however this data can be toggled so not all pupils see data when presented on a SMART board / projected.

Homework, behaviour, grading, reports can also be logged and generated directly from a seating plan which means fewer clicks and opening of tabs for staff.

Homework Module

Homework, Assignments and Projects can be managed in TALAXY by staff and once saved, can be viewed by parents and pupils. Work can be logged via registers or from the homepage.

Resources including worksheets, URLs and videos can be attached to homework and pupils can submit their work online. TALAXY ‘chat’ facility is available on each homework set, enabling teacher/parent/pupil to ask questions and receive additional help.

Work set can be cloned to multiple classes making sharing work within departments and year groups easy.

Reports enable staff to check homework submissions, frequency of homework set by date, teacher, subject, class.

Both grading and behaviour can be assigned to the homework once submitted by a pupil.

(Image shows parent and pupil view)

Communication Module

Chat and Broadcast are features within the core however you may need further features if linking with other modules.

Communication includes system notifications (as you see generated on mobile phones apps), email, text, letter and phone call logging.

To enable first day absence via attendance for example, you would require the communication module, also when sending homework, behaviour and grading notifications.

All communications generated allow you to select the method of communication which also includes the options such as ‘parental responsibility only’ ‘priority 1’ …. ‘preferred method (of communication’.

Staff Cover & Absence - Module

Manage staff absence and arrange cover in TALAXY.

TALAXY presents you with a complete list of absences with associated cover allowing you to filter information easily and report on any patterns of absence.

Cover classes and registers will be presented on cover staff timetables making access simple.

Lesson Plans - Module

Create and manage electronic lesson plans

TALAXY usage (core)

Analyse Parent and Pupil usage of TALAXY with our Engagement Analysis Tool. Individual, Form, Gender, Ethnicity, House Group activity can be tracked allowing teachers to access how often Parents are looking at TALAXY and which pages are be viewed by the Parents.

Chat and Broadcast (core)

As part of the core module, TALAXY provides a great communication module which includes broadcast and chat.

Broadcast enables staff to notify individuals or groups of pupils/parents with blanket information; news, events, updates. You define who receives this broadcast and how; system notification (free of charge), text, email or ‘parent communication preference’.

Chat is a facility allowing staff to staff, staff to parent, staff to pupil, parent to staff or pupil to staff to communicate. We do not allow pupil to pupil chat. It is a similar GUI to WhatsApp. You decide who can use this facility. Often staff email parents and pupils which can cause issues. Chat is secure and allows SLT to track communications and intervene if needed.

Target - CORE

TARGET is a powerful analytical and tracking tool, designed to assist school leadership and local authorities to effectively monitor schools key performance data. For more information, please click on TARGET

Timetable & Diary (core)

Pupils individual timetable is presented in week view with a click button to go back or forward through the academic year. Any further activities for the pupil including extra curriculm classes, detentions, meetings and visits are also visible.

Parents’ Evening Booking Module including Seated events and Student events

30 minute session with a form tutor, 5 minutes with all subject teachers, 10 minute break at 6pm…TALAXY allows you to schedule parents’ evening slots as you wish.

Parents can manually book their slots or use TALAXY auto scheduler. This feature is particularly great for parents with siblings in school or twins; our scheduler will ensure that all the children’s slots are close together; stops a parent having to stay all night at the parents evening!

Staff can pre-book slots for parents ensuring specific children are seen first if need be.

Parent’s Evening is first come first serve and you can schedule the time of opening and closing the booking giving all parents a fair chance to be prepared to book their times.

If a parent wants to discuss anything in particular, they can add their agenda to the timeslot to update the staff member prior to the meet.

Parents evenings can be printed and added to calendar subject to calendar software.

Student Events

Create Student Events for pupils enabling them to ‘[book slots’ for events for example: choice of extra classes. audition for a play, career advice meeting. Simple way for pupils to manage their own meets and classes.

Seating Events

Manage and book seating for events such as a performance.

Attendance Module

Manage your establishment attendance using Attendance View Manager. Notify parents of absence with system notifications, text or email. Simple GUI to update attendance information with quick filter options to find data you need with 2 clicks of a button.

Create timetables (if non MIS school / no timetable software) and add extra curriculum classes.

Behaviour Module

TALAXY behaviour module allows staff to log behaviour which read/writes directly with your MIS and includes associated points if used.

Behaviour alerts and system notifications (push note to mobile) can be configured based on your school policy sending the correct data to the right staff at the right time allowing for further interventions.

Automated behaviour rules allow for points to be allocated to pupils; for example, any pupils with 100% attendance last week receive 10 points on a Monday morning. These rules are defined by your school.

Detention management is also included in this module allowing automated detentions based on specific behaviour. Hierarchical detention can be configured meeting schools individual policies. Detentions for ‘later today’ will be seen in pupils registers and also staff calendars. There is no hiding from a detention!

Reports can be manually created or automatically scheduled weekly.

Graphical dashboards are also available allowing staff to quickly see patterns and trends via their registers and home page along with visuals in TARGET which is part of our CORE module.

Please note: parent view and staff view differ.

Library System

TALAXY library module has been designed by school librarians, easing the process of acquisitions, cataloguing and circulation ofitems. More can be found by clicking here

Tech Talk

TALAXY is a secure cloud solution hosted on an Amazon Web Server.

Link TALAXY with you schools’ MIS or use dependently; ideal for smaller educational units such as dance, sports, youth offenders, referral units, hospital schools …..

MIS data integration is via Wonde whom we have partnered for a few years. TALAXY integrates with all major MIS’s. As SIMS Technical partners, TASC also provide further agents which means we link with more fields in SIMS then Wonde can currently offer.

Designed and developed as a Progressive Web App (PWA), TALAXY can be used on any device with a web browser. No issue with parental devices, personal storage space, compatibility and not reliant on Google or istore ‘out of date’ Mobile App versions. Logging in using SIMSID, Federated AD, Social media accounts (with verified email address), usernames and passwords will not be an issue.

TASC Agent Module - SIMS only schools

Our TASC agent is only available for SIMS schools and enables you to:

Write back updated contact information
Read / write back to SIMS document server
Present exam data, timetables and results direct from SIMS exam module

Data Storage & Resources Module

As TALAXY is hosted on Amazon Web Server, we can offer a data storage facility. This allows you to store resources for staff, parents and pupils

TALAXY licence & GDPR

TALAXY core is a minimum term of 3 years.

Modules are 1 year only

Company GDPR Compliance Statement May 2020

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