TALAXY is a comprehensive suite of tools that caters for all of your staff, students’ and parents’ needs. From Registers, Grades, Behaviour Management and Seating plans to Communications, Homework, Parents’ evenings – and much more.
Replace existing segregated systems, and cherry pick the tools you want today – add more when you need them in the future.
With a modern and intuitive interface, everyone can get involved with minimal to no training. And, unlike other systems, TALAXY guides parents to what you want them to see, getting the right data to the right people at the right time.
TALAXY – working together to succeed
'Multi-tool'
A comprehensive family of tools for your schools' data capture and communication
Customisable
Pick-your-own tools and build the perfect TALAXY Toolkit for your school
Cost effective
Only pay for what you use and you can add more tools in the future to suit your timeframe
Trusted
Our team have a proven track record of being responsive and listening to customers, keeping development on track
Automated
Our unique intervention processes work alongside your school policies and automates key processes without manual intervention
Competitive pricing
Get more for less compared to other software providers
Optimise engagement
More Single-Sign-On options including; Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft optimises parental engagement
Continued improvements
Tools are continuously being developed - we listen, adapt and deploy throughout the day
MIS proof
Seamlessly integrates with any school management system and ensures smooth transitions with future MIS changes
WCAG Enabled
TALAXY follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) ensuring it's content is accessible to all abilities
Easy to use
The interface is matched across all interconnected tools giving the user a 'familiar' experience
Access anywhere
TALAXY is a Cloud-based Web Application, so it’s always available, wherever you are
• Conduct Management
• Fire & Evacuation
• Grade Management
• QR Sign in
• Report Cards
• Registration
• Room & Resource Booking
• Seating Plans
• Student Information
• Cashless catering
• Communication
• Documents & Galleries
• Exams
• Forms & Surveys
• Homework
• Parents Evening
• School Shop & Payments
• School Reports
• Parent Portal
• Catering
• Wellbeing
• Accidents & Medical Incidents
• Attendance Manager
• Communication
• Documents & Galleries
• Room & Resource Booking
• Staff Cover
• Training
• Reporting
• Group Manager
• Timetabling
Helping teachers to organise and communicate
Key features include;
• Single-click, form-less entry of common conduct types, direct from registers and seating plans
• Produce award certificates, which go straight to parents electronically, both as one-offs and when automatic preset targets are reached such as points totals, consistent attendance and punctuality
• Avoid conflicts with the knowledge that Talaxy’s Detention system automatically notifies parents of upcoming detentions in advance
• Cash-in/Shop for rewards
• Apply your school policy into pre-configured automatic escalation and referral paths, and be assured that the right people are being made aware of exactly what they need
• Set rules for the automatic issuing of conduct for automatic totting-up offences, attendance or persistent lateness
• Record interventions and time-limited pastoral notes both for in-school consumption and reporting so that staff aren;t in the dark about current events affecting students
• Investigate patterns and trend analysis of awarded points and produce individual conduct timelines
• Forget paper report cards and barely completed electronic sheets. Our Report Cards lets you put pupils on-report for varied periods, and choose personalised targets to suit the circumstances. Prompts are shown to staff on each register, and Report Cards can be shown to parents where they will be able to review and give feedback
• Attach Detentions to a certain selected behaviour types to ensure a consistent policy is maintained, knowing they will be automatically scheduled to prevent double-bookings
Key features include;
• Up-to-date attendance and your fingertips, both entered directly into Talaxy, and synchronised with your MIS and other satellite sources such as visitor management system, late-books and turnstiles
• Attendance is in the cloud so can be accessed even when your server-room or network infrastructure is compromised
• Filter to groups like houses and registration group lines to perform in-parallel checks across multiple devices
• Includes often missed attendances for example to clubs, detentions and removal sessions
Key features include;
• Cloud based access means staff can enter, review and publish from anywhere
• Maintain a structured Comment bank to standardise in-school and across the trust, which supports importing and exporting
• Key Indicator progress analysis, flight paths, levels of progress
• Let Talaxy do the donkey work and produce Attainment 8 and Progress 8 analysis with ease
• Marksheets can be created per class, or the system can create its own based upon the elements contained in your School Report definitions
• Our optional grade review processes means that mistakes are discovered before publication
• Link with your MIS or use as a complete assessment package on its own
• Gather assessments for non-academic groups such as after school clubs, or one-off squad selection exercises
• Pupil photographs are made available during data entry as an aide-memoire
Key features include;
• Students can use their mobile phones to register their on-site status, which can be seen in the Emergency Evacuation registers
• Great for sixth form or teacher-free classes where lessons are timetabled for study and revision groups or other self-learning activities
• An optional mode of operation allows staff to unlock registration sessions by scanning the same codes available to students
• Set room changes and overrides centrally so that scans of alternative QR codes can be accepted if a room is out-of-order or otherwise unavailable
• Can be used for club registrations, which can accept newcomers and one-off attendances
Key features include;
• Because overlapping episodes of different types are merged together, members of staff only have one card to complete per student
• Staff are notified during registration, dramatically limiting the number of incomplete or missed episodes
• When creating targets, you have access to a choice of grading styles such as yes/no, sliding scales and colour based
• Parents can view Report Cards as they are filled in, and sign them off when complete
Key features include;
• A simple present and absent choice is offered by default, with more unusual codes available only when needed
• Attendance administrators can limit the attendance code available to teaching staff to avoid confusion
• Record lateness, attendance comments and use custom attendance codes for “on-task” or other meta-behaviour meanings
• No save button required – marks are written immediately to prevent the usual classroom interruptions leading to lost data
• A register completion indicator gives real-time feedback on progress
• Indicators and notification are shown for per-class information such as upcoming detentions so that pupils can be held back, missed homeworks, and Interventions currently underway, and Report Cards that need to be filled out
• Add common Behaviour entries such as “incomplete equipment” with one click behaviour entry
• Built-in student Tags such as Pupil Premium, Free School Meals and any other user-defined Tags can be revealed to inform registrars about the students in front of them
• The Register page is a hub for linking to Homework, Lesson Plans, Seating Plans, grading
• Extra classes and detentions can be registered in the same way as class registers, without affecting the traditional attendance record
• Additional unexpected arrivals can be added to registers at any time
Key features include;
• Book by discrete timetable periods or between two times
• Manage sports lettings, meeting rooms and theatre usage efficiently
• Minimum resource units and bookable sets can be defined for resources which must be booked in groups, while still allowing for partial sets to be available
• Set limits on the hours of use when resources are not available at any time
• Set limits on numbers, timescales and advanced notice
• Add repeat or pattern bookings over days, weeks or months
• Caretakers and room owners are informed about bookings for resources they have supervision of
• Caretakers can add non-booking periods in advance for planned maintenance
• Resource consumers can report breakdowns, which prevent future bookings on broken equipment
Key features include;
• Auto assign on alphanumeric, random, boy/girl, behaviour history or student Tags such as Pupil Premium, S.E.N.D and EAL
• Show these same Tags along with conduct scores, and expose up to 5 Key Indicators of your choosing on each seat
• Projection/whiteboard mode hides personal information
• Single-click behaviour recording for common types such as ‘forgotten equipment’
• Rearrange manually in a couple of clicks
• Staff can take their register directly from their seating plans.
• Set standard public layouts per room, knowing that teachers can set their own private alternate layouts for practical, theatrical or one-off lessons
• Overlay your seating plans with behaviour heatmaps to highlight problem areas
• Print seating plans one-at a time or in bulk from the school office
• Proximity reports track pupils who may be at risk due to proximity with another pupil
• Add seats and tables, with labels highlighting the front of rooms help orient users with different expectations of room layouts
Key features include;
• Basic information such as legal and preferred names and birthdays
• Extended details including gender, ethnicity, religion and first language
• Pastoral information like admission number and date, registration group, National Curriculum year
• Personal and SEND information tags are shown quickly identifying the student as Pupil Premium, Free School Meals, English as an Additional Language, and any other groups you have set as “tag-worthy” in the system, including user-defined and “smart” groups
• Consents for school visits, whether photographs are allowed and internet access has been granted are instantly available
• A full record of Interventions and pastoral notes is shown, detailing troubling times in a pupil’s school career
• Attendance today is shown in a simple pleasant info-graphic, and the current year’s session and lesson registers are summarised, analysed and detailed. If you use numerical lesson attendance codes an insight into per-subject attendance is available
• A full record of behaviour incidents, praiseworthy achievements and certificates awarded is presented along with any related subjects
• A student’s gradebook and any comments are shown, clearly broken into subjects
• A timetable, including any detentions and clubs is available, so that a student can be quickly found if required
• Each contact is listed, showing the relationship, parental responsibility, court order status and each telephone number and email address in priority order
• Siblings, both in school and leavers are listed and each can be opened in a new window
• A complete home-school communication record is listed out, with any details and attachments available at the touch of a button
Giving pupils, parents and guardians easy access to information
Key features include;
• Links with many of the best known and uses cashless catering systems
• Show parents and pupils individual transactions made
• Lets users keep track in real time of their current cashless balance
• Reduce the amount of time spent handling balance and purchase queries
Key features include;
• Talaxy supports outbound and inbound emails meaning your communications log is all together in one place
• Store common messages for repeated use in message banks, with personalisation wildcards for fields such as names, gender related pronouns and addresses
• Use free in-app push notices to send to users, even while they aren’t logged in
• Talaxy is backed up by industry leaders to ensure communications are reliable and fast, and we shop around for you to get the best deals on credits
• Our built-in On Call service allows you to set up specialised recipient groups to receive emergency callouts in categories defined by your school via SMS, push and email notifications, and allows respondents to indicate they received the call and are responding
• Talaxy’s unique sticky-notice board combines tutor-period notices and digestible, targeted and informal bulletins to ensure students and parents are kept informed as if they were in the classroom
Key features include;
• The timetables have been praised by multiple schools for their layout and clarity.
• Set release times for results individually for each exam season
• Allow students to exercise their rights to share or restrict their examination results from parents and other contacts
• Once the automatic import is complete, Talaxy lets you arrange invigilation cover from the exam timetables
Key features include;
• Designs can be produced so simply that anyone can create beautiful forms for use around the school and at home
• Multiple uses for school trip consent, wellbeing surveys, pupil voice as well as for canvassing staff opinion
• You decide how each interactive section in your form should be completed, from undemanding yes/no check boxes, through Likert scale ratings, all the way through to free-text commentary
• Analyse responses overall and at the question level, and as everything is connected in Talaxy, analysis can be performed in relation to student Tags such as pupil premium, free school meals, S.E.N.D. requirements and similar
• Forms can be attached to Documents and School Reports to monitor circulation, and to request parental feedback
Key features include;
• Users have commented how fantastic it is to enter grades and comments without releasing, meaning that they are able to self-moderate part way through marking, and to do their marking over a number of sittings
• Marks can be points, grades, percentage, GCSE/BTEC grades – you get to choose how to mark your homework
• Set Quizzes, which you can share or borrow, which are automatically marked and support per-student and per-question – why did Q4 catch everyone out?
• The ability to attach files, web links and videos as homework is being set means you can share resources in advance of lessons and employ the flipped approach
• Differentiate homework to accommodate differing abilities, and assign homework individually
• Opt-in to use the built in system messaging features to allow remote question and answer sessions, and to provide feedback and support to individual pupils
• Parents can view homework, previous grades, accompanying resources such as handouts and videos
• Assign classwork online to students working from home
• Microsoft Teams compatible including providing the often omitted “by staff” analysis and the ability to share homework with parents who don’t get to log in directly to your Teams Education portal. Plus, we don’t demand you change all your naming conventions
Key features include;
• Can be self-service or managed by the office
• Parents can take advantage of the automatic booking bot which will find the most efficient appointment schedule within the ranges they select and make their bookings for them
• Parents can invite other users to video meetings
• The school can impose a policy of forced virtual meetings to end on time, or let them run as long as necessary
• Staff from different faculties or specialisations such as SENCO, Careers advice and Year Heads can have different slot lengths and start/end times to other staff members to reflect the nature of their meetings
• Teachers can be substituted for specific classes, both in the planning stages and if they have to miss events at the last minute
• Gaps between meetings can be automatically added
• Staggered comfort breaks can be scheduled in
• Being able to exclude individual classes from events means you don’t have to complicate the schedules with unwanted pastoral classes
• Talaxy’s apportionment feature means that classes taught by multiple teachers are handled smoothly, allowing you to choose which teachers are involved, and if a class is to be jointly run you can quickly pre-select certain students for one teacher and other students with another teacher in advance of booking commencing
• Teachers schedules are made available to them on-line or emailed to them so they can produce their own hard copy if they require
• Includes a seat booking function at no extra cost to accept bookings to plays and recitals, which can produce tickets for you
Key features include;
• Join companies like Deliveroo and Booking.com in using Stripe to collect money as you sell stock items
• Give your wares a Conduct Point cost to allow students to cash-in their Achievement Points for real rewards
• Live stock control with automatic reorder alerts mean you need never be out-of-stock of important items
• Add minimum order requirements for products which require one
• Create Invoices for music lessons, wraparound care, school trips and clubs with cost attached
• Accept credit account top-ups
Key features include;
• The simple visual designer means anyone can create outstanding report designs
• Preview reports as they are being designed by using fake though representative data, without having data in yet
• Add standard graphical and text blocks, comment blocks, tables of grades, graphs and charts
• The designs you create can be used to inform input marksheets on the fly, so there is no need to match up marksheets to reports manually
• Schedule reports to go out on a date of your choosing
• Reports can be printed or shared electronically with parents
• Although the system will know who has downloaded a report once it has been released, you can attach Forms so that parents can provide feedback
• Share designs/grading structures to standardise reporting across the trust
Key features include;
• Single sign-on using the broadest range of providers such as Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft removes barriers to parents signing up initially
• Talaxy’s parent homepage isn’t just a menu screen, it is a live dashboard showing up-to-the-minute information, and draws attention to important changes or new documents and conduct records, rather than making parents guess what you want them to read
• External links to other systems can be added such as payment portals, learning
• One click access to Attendance, Conduct, Detentions and more
• Area usage statistics are retained so you can see using our Engagement Analysis tool which parents of which students are using which features the most
• Talaxy allows parents to change all personal contact data securely, unlike other systems which only allow users to change their own details, or worse, flout GDPR principles and show everyone’s details to the priority contact
Key features include;
• Create your own club timetables and record attendance and grades exactly as if they were timetabled lessons
• Students and parents can view up-to-date timetables live on their mobile or desktop, allowing them to print them at home if required, and enabling them to prepare for sports or food and nutrition lessons in advance
• Switch views simply and quickly from a calendar view to a list view containing school events such as assemblies, fetes and school performances
• Talaxy supports asymmetric timetables which may start at different times depending on the day of the week, or have different numbers of periods per day
Making administration and easier to manage
Key features include;
• Supports the recording of injury location on a body map
• Informs key staff when a student is sent home or to hospital in the aftermath of an incident
• Record both treatments and outcomes to complete the picture
Provides parents with real-time updates.
Key features include;
• Links with many of the best known and uses cashless catering systems
• Show parents and pupils individual transactions made
• Lets users keep track in real time of their current cashless balance
Reduce the amount of time spent handling balance and purchase queries
Key features include;
• Talaxy supports outbound and inbound emails meaning your communications log is all together in one place
• Store common messages for repeated use in message banks, with personalisation wildcards for fields such as names, gender related pronouns and addresses
• Use free in-app push notices to send to users, even while they aren’t logged in
• Talaxy is backed up by industry leaders to ensure communications are reliable and fast, and we shop around for you to get the best deals on credits
• Our built-in On Call service allows you to set up specialised recipient groups to receive emergency callouts in categories defined by your school via SMS, push and email notifications, and allows respondents to indicate they received the call and are responding
• Talaxy’s unique sticky-notice board combines tutor-period notices and digestible, targeted and informal bulletins to ensure students and parents are kept informed as if they were in the classroom
Key features include;
• Don’t give letters a chance to get “lost” on the way home
• Upload your own documents, or synchronise with your MIS document store and share them straight to the right parent accounts
• Sharing documents such as school reports, health care plans, school trip itineraries, uniform policies and parking arrangements means there’s no need to incur printing costs or spend time sorting paper into piles
• The ability to share both targeted and public documents lets you publish your school newsletter electronically
• Documents can be emailed out once uploaded to ensure high levels of circulation
• Our free PDF conversion tool allows you to upgrade documents in your MIS document store to a universally readable format
• Can tell if they have been read, and can request feedback using Forms.
• Talaxy’s Gallery feature isn’t just for showing off art-work, but has found uses for sharing photos from school trips and residentials, and as it’s not just visual images either, can be used to share highlights from school recitals and plays
Key features include;
• Book by discrete timetable periods or between two times
• Manage sports lettings, meeting rooms and theatre usage efficiently
• Minimum resource units and bookable sets can be defined for resources which must be booked in groups, while still allowing for partial sets to be available
• Set limits on the hours of use when resources are not available at any time
• Set limits on numbers, timescales and advanced notice
• Add repeat or pattern bookings over days, weeks or months
• Caretakers and room owners are informed about bookings for resources they have supervision of
• Caretakers can add non-booking periods in advance for planned maintenance
• Resource consumers can report breakdowns, which prevent future bookings on broken equipment
Key features include;
• Handles employee illness and absence for other reasons such as training courses
• Arrange cover using a simple intuitive and fast interface immediately a staff absence is recorded
• Absences and illness episodes are written back to your MIS to ensure your school workforce census is accurate and complete
• Record episode start and end dates while also specifying the number of working days and hours lost
• Create custom reasons for absence such as public duties, secondments and compassionate leave
Key features include;
• Plan CPD and top-up training in advance
• Record attendance to courses in bulk or as a register
• Keep a historical record of accreditations conferred
• Monitor the renewals and expiration of accreditations and time limited courses such as safeguarding
• Schedule and NQT review meetings
• Produce reports to demonstrate staff development in key Ofsted areas
Key features include;
Key features include;
• Create rules for the automatic creation of “smart groups” by combining existing groups in novel ways. Talaxy supports union, intersection and non-intersection operations so you can work with groups such as Year 7 FSM Girls who are not a Service Child, and this group will be kept up-to-date automatically for you
• Any group can be made “tag worthy” which means any members of this group will be shown with colourful and distinctive tags where appropriate
• Make your own TAGS and link them to user-defined or rule-based groups
• Create additional supervisors of groups for specific reasons such as grading supervisors who might perform grade reviews, or head-of-subjects who will need to monitor homework within their faculty
Key features include;
• Create your own club timetables and record attendance and grades exactly as if they were timetabled lessons
• Students and parents can view up-to-date timetables live on their mobile or desktop, allowing them to print them at home if required, and enabling them to prepare for sports or food and nutrition lessons in advance
• Switch views simply and quickly from a calendar view to a list view containing school events such as assemblies, fetes and school performances
• TALAXY supports asymmetric timetables which may start at different times depending on the day of the week, or have different numbers of periods per day
Secure
2 factor authentication and permission based clearance levels allow fast and secure access for internal and external user groups
Widely Used
TALAXY stands upon the shoulders of our pioneering PARS and INSIGHT products, which are used in hundreds of schools across the country
Expertise
The development team are innovators and adept developers of pupil data management solutions for over 30 years
Support
You will have a dedicated account manager and access to the Support Team for training, telephone and help-desk support.
All plans include initial account setup, hosting for 1 year and 365 day technical support.*
Plans start at £950 and scale to your requirement.
Primary plan
from £950
per year
Secondary plan
from £1,400
per year
Additional tools
from £0.20
per pupil, per tool
* Minimum term 3 years. Term and conditions apply.
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