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StudentLife 101
Imagine having the ability to oversee, track, monitor, and manage every aspect of student life on your campus with a single tool. Imagine the peace of mind for the administrators, the staff, the parents, and the students at your school. Welcome to StudentLife, from Reach Student Life Management!
StudentLife is the award-winning, secure, purpose-built, subscription-based student life management system developed specifically for day schools and residential campuses. StudentLife allows schools to manage risk, build efficiencies, and facilitate real-time communication to promote harmony throughout your academic community.
Why do you need ReachBoarding?
In a world of heightened uncertainty, schools are responsible for an ever-increasing level of care, accountability, and safety for the students and staff at our institutions. ReachBoarding has proven itself as the intuitive, go-to solution for more boarding schools than any other platform.
ReachBoarding provides an integrated system of communication and security with checks & balances that provide peace of mind for your school’s parents, staff and students.
“A clear and easy way to check who is present on campus at any given moment. This is paramount for student safety and school liability.”
— Monica Schafer, Director of Student Life and Wellness, King’s-Edgehill School (Nova Scotia, Canada)
“The administration and support teams are quick to respond, professional and they listen carefully to our questions and feedback. Most importantly, they always consider our students’ safety as the top priority for their product’s functionality.”
— Jeanne Townsend, IT Department, Tabor Academy (Massachusetts, USA)
“They also understand our responsibility to keep our students safe and communicate effectively with parents. This has been a true partnership and a massive success in adding another layer to our risk mitigation strategy.”
— Kristopher Churchill, Head of Senior School, Trinity College School (Ontario, Canada)
How does it help?
StudentLife is a constantly-evolving suite of integrated, task-specific modules designed to add efficiencies, real-time automation, and lend a helping hand for the day-to-day challenges of day school administrators and staff. Each module has a job to do, and they all work in perfect harmony to provide a seamless solution.
First Response –
Designed to enable administrators to address everything from minor everyday incidents to large-scale emergencies, this module provides enhanced situational awareness of student locations, real-time chat with students, and confirmation of student status, allowing selective, or wide-scale alerts and communication with parents, students, and staff.
Custom SURVEYS/Forms –
Create, edit, and manage customized intuitive forms designed for students and parents. Generate permission forms for activities, waivers for field trips, or even create short surveys about the things that matter to students and staff on your campus. Custom Surveys/Forms are being used by schools around the world to survey students and staff, address COVID-19 protocols and quickly assess any symptomatic conditions before students and staff arrive to school.
Attendance Log –
StudentLife tracks and monitors attendance at assemblies, lunch, and during school-related events in real-time, with multiple staff accountability for students across the campus.
FRONT DESK –
Control, record, and manage visits to campus, with key information collection, ID Management, reason for visit, and creation of a virtual visitor ID card.
Student Tracker –
Track and report student movements in, out, and around your school, and integrates that data with all other relevant modules within the StudentLife system. Movement transactions and student monitoring can be created manually or electronically and staff can know simply by checking a StudentLife dashboard screen where any or all students are in real-time and when they are due back.
Event Coordinator –
A powerful tool to replace your Google Forms, clipboards, or paper sign-ups for all of your student activities and events. This module assists your staff with managing trips, excursions, away games, meetings, special events, etc. StudentLife simplifies and streamlines the process for all involved.
Campus Chat –
Integrated real-time, secure chat capability between student and teacher. All data stays within the StudentLife system and administration has permission-based access to view and report chat logs.
Communication Hub –
A hub for all student communications, utilizing email, PUSH, SMS (Text Msgs) to communicate with students, staff and parents for alerts, notices and emergency situations.
WELLNESS CHECK –
StudentLife lets you track, manage, and report on the overall quality of care, the behaviour, and the wellbeing of your students using data tracking, behaviour tagging, and analytics to provide real-time insight of student interactions to ensure harmony and alert staff to potential interpersonal issues before they can escalate.
PASTORAL CARE –
Understanding and tracking pastoral information for students is a vital element of keeping them safe and accountable. ReachBoarding allows for staff to quickly take notes on student wellness and behavior and alerts administrators when concerns arise.
REACH WELLNESS INDEX® – View and analyze the big picture of social and emotional wellness for their students, staff, and parents. Reach Wellness Index® and Challenge Success, is now included as a standard module for all subscribers.
Is StudentLife secure?
We have redesigned the StudentLife user-access security system from the ground up to create a robust and flexible digital architecture that provides administrators with complete control across the entire user base.
Our Infinity Access provides administrators with unlimited flexibility and endless possibilities. It gives you the ability to control the access and activity capability for every user, on every screen, and for every action in StudentLife.
Using the latest in RFID technology, biometrics, or GPS to monitor student movement, StudentLife implements new innovative technology tools such as i-Beacons, NFC tags and QR codes. StudentLife is constantly seeking to improve user experience, efficiency, and security for our schools.
Will StudentLife integrate with our current system?
A key feature of StudentLife is that it has been designed to integrate seamlessly with a growing list of School Management Systems worldwide.
StudentLife even shares your school spirit – it can be custom-branded with your school crest and colours to become an integral part of student life on your campus.
With the Reach Application Programming Interface (API), we connect with the world’s leading platforms, including yours.
What’s New
Student Daily Timeline
Sometimes you just need to know, at the click of a button, what a student been doing for the past 24 hours or more. That’s why we have the Student Daily Timeline. The Student Daily Timeline will display a list of transactions or actions that a student has been...
COVID-19 Daily Symptoms Survey for student
Monitoring the physical symptoms of students and staff on a daily basis has become a common procedure for many schools, one of the many operational adjustments needed to ensure a Covid-safe environment for the school community. Daily COVID-19 symptoms surveys are a...
Location capacity monitor helps to manage physical
Physical distancing measures for monitoring and managing Covid-safe facilities means the rooms and locations have to be managed with capacity limits. To assist with this REACH has introduced a new feature for location management called Location Capacity Monitor. This...
Sending notifications using the REACH Communications
In these uncertain times we understand that it is important to keep your boarding community informed. It is timely that we remind you that that the REACH Communications module allows you to send messages to your boarding community as required, to any or all of...
