Benefits for Schools
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  • Better venue choice.
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      Congestion reduction (and balancing) allows use of smaller venues that are more event-appropriate, such as a nice air-conditioned library compared to large breezy hall.
    • Less effort to run than manual scheduling, means schools may elect to run a few smaller events instead of one large one. This further reduces parent congestion, allowing better venue choices.
  • Reduce facility use.
    • Edval reduces parent idle time. Means fewer parents waiting at any one time using toilets, tea/coffee/food, car parking, chairs, corridor congestion, or making noise.
    • Research shows EdvalPTN can reduce congestion by 70%
  • Less staff effort.
    • Reduce work processing paper forms. Less time negotiating or arranging interview schedules with students.
    • Maintain an educational focus, not an administration focus.
    • Savings of well over 20hrs in staff administration can be achieved if using a system that requires no staff effort in preparing schedules or negotiating matching times for both participants.
  • Better schedule accessibility.
    • Teachers easily see schedules for all other teachers, as well as the schedule of all parents.
    • All schedules globally accessible online, or via event printouts.
  • Promotes parent follow-up.
    • See which parents have not submitted interview requests. Contact them to encourage involvement in their child’s education or verify their awareness of the event.
    • Map parental attendance over several events and observe a direct relationship with student academic performance.
  • Dynamic event parameters.
    • Analyse optimal event times, break times, or interview durations. Vary parameters electronically to achieve the best results for the school, based on the needs of all participants at that specific event. This can’t be done with paper schedules.
    • Some schools have found savings of over ten staff hours by just slightly adjusting their dinner break start time.
  • Run more events.
    • Computer scheduling is far easier for schools, which encourages them to run interview nights more often. This allows teachers to stay better connected with parents.
  • Better scheduling control.
    • Legacy parent teacher scheduling systems (E.g., TimeChart) schedule sequentially, favouring parents with surnames beginning with ‘A’, over surnames with ‘Z’. Manual scheduling favours those who are first in and take the best times, or favours interviews with teachers in high demand.
    • EdvalPTN provides total control, considers all times, all teachers and all parental requests when producing a schedule - fairer to all.
  • Better parental attendance.
    • Parents are more likely to seek and attend interviews if the start time can closely match their time preferences and availability, when their waiting time between interviews is minimised, and when they can see teachers they really want to.
    • Parents will seek more involvement with efficient, well scheduled and organised events.
  • More interviews.
    • Efficient schedules allow more interviews scheduled than manual methods. More parental involvement occurs with good schedules, interview priority, and preferred times.
  • Reduce consumables.
    • Forms are delivered free online, or only printed on request. Phone calls are unnecessary. Interview preference systems don’t require any negotiation of available times.
  • Secure communication.
    • Students may be too late, mislay paper forms or chose not to organise interviews with teachers who may be negative about their performance.
    • Computer scheduling removes students as interview ‘organisers’, promoting secure, educationally focused interviews.
  • Engage parents online.
    • Encourage parents to interact with the school online, then link them to the school website for other information they may not have known was offered by the school.
  • Cancel notification.
    • Parents may not like to notify cancelations if they have to ring the school and ‘speak’ to someone. Electronic systems encourage easy notice of cancels, even after hours.
  • Technology focus.
    • Efficient interview scheduling and online accessibility empowers parents, and promotes a very positive view of the school as modern, organised and educationally focused.
  • Manage staff breaks.
    • Global meal breaks & specific staff unavailability easily managed.
  • Timing bells.
    • Computer interview timers. Staff focus on interviews, not clocks