Attendance, assessment, safeguarding, HR and invoicing read from one set of records, not from three spreadsheets somebody reconciles by hand on a Friday evening.
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Schools and partners we work with
The situation
Marks live in one spreadsheet. Attendance lives in another. Somebody keeps a third on their own laptop, and it is usually the most accurate one.
Folder permissions are open or closed. They cannot tell the difference between your safeguarding lead and a supply teacher covering Year 8, so either everyone sees a sensitive note or nobody does.
A parent asks why their child was marked absent on Tuesday. Answering properly means opening the register, the timetable, the notes and the messages, then hoping all four agree.
Two products
For schools
Everything a school records about a student, from the first register to the final report. Attendance, assessment, reporting, safeguarding, HR, invoicing and the whole-school calendar, all reading from the same records.
For language schools
Built for language schools, where an enquiry arrives on WhatsApp at nine at night and gets answered at noon the next day, by which point the parent has messaged two other schools. FirstEnroll puts every enquiry in one shared inbox and does the chasing for you.
Included in the First IMS Custom plan if you want both.
What is inside
A school enables only what it uses, so you are not paying for eleven modules to get four.
A weighted gradebook where you define the categories and the weights. It will not save until the weights add up to 100 per cent.
Log an incident, group related ones into a case, and route alerts by category to the right role automatically. Every note records who read it.
A weekly grid per section, colour coded by subject, showing teacher and room in every slot. Look up any teacher, section or classroom.
School-branded invoices with line items, discounts and a payment ledger. Define a billable product once and reuse it.
Next lesson, today's register, the attendance figure so far and the daily bulletin, on the screen a teacher opens first.
Mark a register period by period, or set a whole class present in one click. Every student shows their pattern across the day's eight periods.
Report cycles with separate deadlines for teachers and senior leadership, a reusable statement bank, and a live view of who has actually finished.
The whole academic year on one screen, August to July. One school calendar rather than one per department.
Staff records, documents and dependents, plus leave requests that staff file themselves and managers approve from a queue.
Who is in school right now, with linked parent contacts and a button to message them. Absences can be logged in advance.
Generate a room layout, then drag students onto seats. Save it, print it, and hand it to whoever is covering.
See it working
The real product, recorded on a demo school. No slides and no voiceover promising things that are not built yet.
Why First IMS
Pricing
Both plans are per student per month with no separate implementation fee. Larger and multi-campus schools are quoted on Custom.
$0.75
per student, per month
Attendance, student and staff records, portals and assessment.
See what is included$1.00
per student, per month
Everything in Core, plus HR, NEST safeguarding and invoicing.
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multi-campus and white label
Everything in Growth, plus multi-campus, white label and FirstEnroll.
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One system for running a school. Attendance, student and staff records, assessment, reports, safeguarding, HR, invoicing and parent communication, all reading from the same records rather than from separate files that have to be reconciled.
Core is $0.75 per student per month and Growth is $1.00. Larger and multi-campus schools are quoted on the Custom plan. There is no separate implementation fee, and your existing records are imported as part of onboarding rather than billed as a project.
It comes across as part of onboarding. Student and staff records, historic attendance and assessment data all import, and we would rather do that work with you than hand you a template and wish you luck. Send us a sample export and we will tell you honestly what maps cleanly and what does not.
NEST is a module inside First IMS rather than a separate tool, so a safeguarding note is attached to the student record but visible only to the roles that should see it. Every note records who has read it. Access is configurable per school.
Yes, on the Custom plan, which also covers white labelling. If you run two sites today and a third next year, say so early and we will set the structure up for that from the start.
Yes. We will set you up on a demo school with your own subjects and year groups rather than ours, so you are looking at something that resembles your timetable. Ask for a demo and we reply within one working day.
Send us the spreadsheet you dread opening and we will show you what it looks like once it stops being a spreadsheet. We reply within one working day.