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Satchel One is the market-leading learning platform that's launching with full cloud MIS functionality next academic year. Already used by ~1 in 3 UK secondary schools, it's firmly the teachers' choice for ease of use and classroom management. From the team behind award-winning software, Show My Homework, schools can use the suite of classroom management apps to support learning, save teachers time and involve parents in the learning process.

With the ability to choose your own apps, schools can create a bespoke learning platform to suit their needs, choose from: Show My Homework, Seating, Behaviour Attendance, Detentions, Timetables, Welfare Notes and Documents.

Achieve a consistent approach to online learning that involves teachers, students and parents in the process, whilst providing powerful evidence to Ofsted of your school’s behaviour and attendance policies. All from one simple login.

Satchel One, is now also an official Google for Education Partner and a Microsoft partner, offering powerful integrations to help schools take a holistic approach to education. Integrated use of these platforms results in an online learning experience like no other.

Learning Platform Features:

- Show My Homework

- Behaviour

- Attendance

- Timetables

- Welfare Notes

- Detentions

- Seating

- Documents

MIS Functionality:

Apps
Everything you need for classroom management including Behaviour, Detentions, Homework, Seating and Timetables.

Students
Manage your student profiles, applicants and their parent or carer records easily.

Staff
Access everything for staff HR, personnel, contracts and directory from one place.

School
From subjects and departments, to teaching groups and academic structure, organise your school details effectively.

System
Setup roles and permissions, or personalise with public pages and custom themes securely.

Working with MATs

Satchel One provides multi-academy trusts with consistent reporting across all schools in the MAT and makes it simple for trusts to adhere to centralised attendance, behaviour and homework policies, and in the future a cloud-based MIS. By providing each school in your trust with access to Satchel One, trust leads can enjoy the benefits of dealing with a single supplier, preferential rates and tools for use in both primary and secondary schools.

Stay in touch

Stay in the loop about our MIS developments
Visit www.teamsatchel.com to learn more about our MIS, including our 'One Licence Offer' where we will provide you with up to 18 months free of charge if you're using another MIS provider, plus 25% off your first paid year.

Recommended Usage

20 minutes per week

Educational Impact

improve school processes
90%
improve teaching efficiency
86%
improve parent engagement
85%
reduce teacher workload
83%

Additional evidence

May 2021

Returning to Satchel One (Melksham Oak Community School)

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Apr 2021

Monitoring Behaviour (Icknield Community College)

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Mar 2021

Increased Student Engagement (Ashton on Mersey School)

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Aug 2021

Enhancing Parental Engagement (Lesmahagow High School)

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CompanyBusiness Name: Satchel
HQ Location: United Kingdom
Founded: 2011
Age Range5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18
FeaturesHomeworkAttendanceSeatingTimetablesBehaviourDetentionsContentReportsGradebookNotice BoardGradingAssessmentDocuments SharingWelfareBehaviour ManagementBehaviour ReportsMis SyncSeating PlansTrack Pupil ProgressLesson AttendanceParent AppMessagingDiscussionClassworkAi
LanguagesEnglish
AccessibilityModerate features
PoliciesTerms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR
RequirementsInternet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android

No technical capacity needed. Users need access to a device such as a mobile phone, PC or laptop

Set Up

A few days

TrainingIn PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos
SupportEmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support

Live chat for customers

Home LearningParent Access

School must create the account.

View home learning page

Mobile app and desktop versions available

TagsHomeworkAttendanceDetentionsBehaviourWelfareSeatingSeating PlansTimetablesClassroom managementLearning platformDistance learningShow My Homeworkwelfarebehaviour managementMISschool management

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Satchel One pricing starts from £1.5 / per-pupil

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4.6 out of 5

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Satchel One has collected 6 reviews in the past 6 months

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Ian Mead

i/c Managed service

St Marylebone, England

Used Satchel One daily for 7–12 months

Jan 2024

Some aspects for attendance officer are awkard and don't provide a streamlined work flow. There are compromises that writing back to sims makes editing prior and future marks difficult. Some aspects are revolutionary like seating plans, badges and easy access to points.

Ian Mead found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Seating plans are easier to administer and more informative
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Setting and administering detentions is now easier and more transparent.
  • Moderately improves school processes
    Detention systems are more robust and able to provide extra feature like sanction for n offences.
  • Moderately improves parent engagement
    Good ptake form parents in general but some problems getting google classroom assignment to sync has caused some frustrations.
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Xerxes

IT Technician

Used Satchel One monthly for 7–12 months

Dec 2023

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you for your review! :)
Xerxes found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
  • Significantly improves school processes
  • Moderately improves parent engagement
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S Yalden

Headteacher

Looe Community Academy, England

Used Satchel One daily for 5 years+

Dec 2023

Staff, parents and students are pleased with our expanded use of Satchel One and the benefits of bringing all these systems and processes under one umbrella package. The customer support is also very strong which is important with any IT based system.

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you so much for your positive review of Satchel One! It's fantastic to hear that both staff, parents, and students are reaping the benefits of our integrated system. Your insights on how it significantly reduces teacher workload, improves teaching efficiency, streamlines school processes, and enhances parent engagement are incredibly valuable to us. We are also delighted to know that our customer support is meeting your expectations. We're committed to continuous improvement and your feedback is crucial in that journey.
S Yalden found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Being able to use one system rather than multiple packages to carry out a range of teacher tasks such as seating plans, rewards, sanctions, messaging, homework, communication with parents etc.
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    By being a one stop shop for registers, conduct and homework it is an efficient use of time rather than using multiple systems. Seeking support to a class is more efficient and timely because of the on alert feature.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    One bringing everything under one system it is easier to achieve consistency and is generally more efficient.
  • Significantly improves parent engagement
    We have seen a rise in parent and carer access to Satchel from 29% when we used is solely for homework to 60% when we added in the additional features improving home-school communication and engagement.
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Andy

Operations Manager

The Bewdley School, England

Used Satchel One daily for 5 years+

Dec 2023

Really good product, when it becomes a full MIS I think it will be much more powerful then it is now. There are still refinements to be made for what schools want, but these readily become available and Satchel engage with schools based on their needs

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you for your insightful review of Satchel One! We are thrilled to hear about the significant reduction in teacher workload and the improvements in teaching efficiency and school processes that our product has brought to your school. We are excited about the prospect of Satchel One evolving into a full MIS and appreciate your feedback on the ongoing refinements needed to meet the specific demands of schools
Andy found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Collaboration - reusing Homework, sharing ideas, one click solutions to a lot of admin tasks that normally take a lot longer
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    When used properly it is all of the time, getting staff to use the full features means real efficiency on a range of areas, homework, seating, attendance, praise and behaviour
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Satchel are very receptive to talking about improving / changing features to make things work for schools.
  • Moderately improves parent engagement
    When parents are onboard it enables parents to see a holistic view of their child's attendance, behaviour and homework meaning they engage more and feel a part of the school
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Chris

Assistant Headteacher

Langtree School, England

Used Satchel One daily for 5 years+

Dec 2023

Satchel One's customer support team has been nothing short of excellent. Every request we send (and we send a lot!) is taken seriously and dealt with quickly and professionally. We're so happy with Satchel One that we have decided to fully invest in all the services that they offer.

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you for your kind words about our customer support team at Satchel One! We're thrilled to hear how much our service has streamlined tasks for your teachers and improved engagement with parents. It's fantastic that you've decided to fully invest in all our services. We're committed to continuing to provide top-notch support and solutions for your school.
Chris found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Setting homework, allocating behaviour points and taking registers is all very streamlined by Satchel One.
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    Satchel One has helped significantly with organising homework and remote learning. In the classroom, we are saving time (compared to old systems) with doing tasks like awarding achievement points and recording attendance.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Our teaching staff find it much easier to quickly access student details, such as parent contact information, on Satchel One as opposed to our old MIS system.
  • Significantly improves parent engagement
    As we have increased our use of Satchel One so to have our parents become more engaged. We now have 95%+ of our parents looking at it regularly. Their feedback is that it is very helpful to be able to instantly see homework tasks and behaviour feedback for their child.
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Ryan

Head of High School

ISCS - The British School of Zug, Switzerland

Used Satchel One daily for 4-6 months

Dec 2023

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you for the review! :)
Ryan found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
  • Significantly improves school processes
  • Moderately improves parent engagement
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Neelam Parmar

Digital Learning

The Parker E-ACT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Used Satchel One daily for 1-2 years

Mar 2023

Fully cloud-based that involves parents in educating their children.

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you for taking your time to leave us a review, we highly appreciate it! :)
Neelam Parmar found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    All homework is set in one place and easy to find/refer to when needed.
  • Slightly improves teaching efficiency
    No major impact on teaching efficiency
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Homework can be monitored and evaluated on a regular basis and checked when it is completed by students or not.
  • Significantly improves parent engagement
    Parents are informed
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RICHARD ABBEY

SCIENCE TEACHER

OVERTON GRANGE SCHOOL, England

Used Satchel One daily for 3-4 years

Feb 2022

FOUND IT USEFUL TO USE. EVIDENCE OF HOMEWORK SET AND MARKED AVAILABLE FOR PARENT EVENINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you so much, Richard!
RICHARD ABBEY found Satchel One:
  • Moderately reduces teacher workload
    HOMEWORK -SETTING AND MARKING, RESETTING /REUSING REGISTER MARKING , SEATING PLANS COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENTS AND PARENTS
  • Significantly improves school processes
    COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOME, EASY TO FIND INFORMATION OFTEN NOT MENTIONED BY STUDENTS EASILY AVAILABLE INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS TO REVISIT
  • Moderately improves parent engagement
    TO ENSURE INFORMATION IS PASSED ON REDIRECTING PARENTS TO THE INFORMATION THEY MISSED.
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Mr Flynn

Teacher of Design and Technology

The Redhill Academy, England

Used Satchel One weekly for 5 years+

Feb 2022

Show my Homework has been an invaluable tool for us, particularly throughout the challenging times of COVID: it's also very easy to use, and the Team have responded really well to feedback, creating new features which extend the effectiveness of SMH as a teaching and learning tool.

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you for your review! We do find all feedback really useful and we take it very seriously here at Satchel. We're glad to hear we made a difference during the difficult times of COVID.
Mr Flynn found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    The ability to quickly re-use work, ease of editing, preparing drafts ahead of time, ability for other members of Faculty to share resource, Self-marking and analysis of comprehension in Quiz mode can direct future study areas.
  • Moderately improves school processes
    Throughout the pandemic SMH has been essential in providing a familiar platform for students to access online learning resources. We also used the comment section to effectively communicate with our students. provide feedback, and pastoral support.
  • Moderately improves parent engagement
    Parents sometimes communicated via comment section, many parents like the ability to monitor their child's homework/work.
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Simon Oldfield

Head of RE and Citizenship

Northgate High School, England

Used Satchel One weekly for 3-4 years

Feb 2022

No other piece of software has so positively and widely impacted by teaching.

Reply from Satchel One:Thank you!
Simon Oldfield found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    The ability to set, collect and record homework tasks is a dream!
  • Significantly improves school processes
    The ability to communicate clearly to varying groups of students allows efforts and energy to go into other things.
  • Significantly improves parent engagement
    Easier for parents to partner in the hw process.
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James

Teacher

Lytham St Annes High School, England

Used Satchel One daily for 3-4 years

Feb 2022

Excellent service!

James found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Quizzes - mark themselves.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Marking easier.
  • Significantly improves parent engagement
    Students can show work to parents easily.
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Jan 2021

Saves lots of teachers time - easy for students to use on multiple platforms

Reply from Satchel One:Reducing teacher workload is our number 1 priority!
Andy Braithwaite found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Attach worksheets / No printing of worksheets / Reuse HW for different classes / online submissions of work
  • Moderately improves school processes
    The expectation by Parents that HW is always published on SMHW. Platform for students to submit work
  • Slightly improves parental engagement
    Becoming more useful, but Parental engagement still low - parents do not understand SMHW enough - engagement is often parents querying either lack of HW or submissions
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Liz

Teacher of MFL

Used Satchel One for 5 years+

Dec 2020

Only good experiences administering and using it

Reply from Satchel One:We're so glad to hear that, Liz!
Liz found Satchel One:
  • Moderately reduces teacher workload
    Reusing previous homeworks
  • Moderately improves school processes
    Getting messages to students
  • Significantly improves parental engagement
    Parent app monitoring homework better
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Damian Woolf

Teacher

Used Satchel One for 1-2 years

Dec 2020

I think it costs the school a lot

Damian Woolf found Satchel One:
  • Moderately reduces teacher workload
    Students can submit online
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Can reuse homeworks
  • Moderately improves parental engagement
    You don’t link parents to students which is bad
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steve

English Teacher

Used Satchel One for 7–12 months

Dec 2020

It was a lifesaver in Lockdown. The company quickly adapted further tools. Now it's a comprehensive site.

steve found Satchel One:
  • Slightly reduces teacher workload
    Lockdown. Always at the keyboard.
  • Slightly improves school processes
    Parents can see comments I put to students. They get involved more.
  • Significantly improves parental engagement
    They can view all tasks.
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Sam Obeng-Asare

Head of Economics and Business studies

Used Satchel One for 2years

Nov 2020

it is informative and useful to set work as a teacher and check work as a parent

Sam Obeng-Asare found Satchel One:
  • Slightly reduces teacher workload
    I don't know how, I only set work for my pupils
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Homework task set ahead of time
  • Significantly improves parental engagement
    parents can check what work is set and or due
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Kim Vale

Science teacher

Used Satchel One for At least 10 years I think

Nov 2020

Saves time, allows me to send web links and the huge variety of types of homework. Amazing support during lockdown and you are helpful when I cannot get hold of our own IT!

Kim Vale found Satchel One:
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Not having to copy worksheets, not having to take in physical work. Spelling tests and quizzes marked automatically
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Setting work for absent students
  • Moderately improves parental engagement
    Parents know what their children should be doing and by when - only helpful if they engage with this
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Nov 2020

Really good. A couple of things that could make it easier to use.

Rosie found Satchel One:
  • Slightly reduces teacher workload
    We are using it to set remote work which is adding to workload but I imagine normally it is very helpful being able to set the same homework etc for multiple classes
  • Moderately improves school processes
    Easy to set remote work. No need to use homework diary.
  • Moderately improves parental engagement
    Can check on students homework
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Emma

Leader of Learning MFL

Used Satchel One for 6 years

Oct 2020

It is very efficient; allows parental access; archives tasks; allows 2 way communication between pupils and teachers; keeps records and much more. We don't use seating plans, timetabling or behavior in Satchel One but I wish we did.

Emma found Satchel One:
  • Moderately improves attainment
    It enables students to be more organized about there homework and enables increased parental involvement both of which have a positive impact on attainment.
  • Does not significantly reduce teacher workload
    It allows documents, presentations and links to be attached saving printing and allows homework tasks to be reused/edited for other groups and shared with colleagues.
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Emma Callan

Head of Chemistry

Used Satchel One for 18 months

Jul 2020

Very professional, rapid answer to issues, constantly updating in response to feedback - new facilities added regularly

Emma Callan found Satchel One:
  • Moderately improves attainment
    Gives students access to information about the task at home and allows parents to see exactly what needs to be done.
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Can set same task for equivalent classes/ whole year group etc
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Stella

teacher

Used Satchel One for 3 years

Jul 2020

not sure it does ease my workload as it is currently

Stella found Satchel One:
  • Slightly improves attainment
    being able to send feedback to students and add screen shots or web links
  • Slightly reduces teacher workload
    submitting grades , having to deselect students, then select, then deselect can be a bit time consuming
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Clare

English Teacher

Used Satchel One for 3 years

Jul 2020

Good to share workload across a department and to track students' knowledge; parents like being able to see that too.

Clare found Satchel One:
  • Does not significantly improve attainment
    Good for students learning key knowledge like quotations; knowing quotations helps them improve their attainment in the Lit exams.
  • Moderately reduces teacher workload
    As a department, we have each taken responsibility for doing quizzes for spelling and knowledge of key info in a scheme. They are a bit onerous to set up, but links can be shared and then we don't all have to do them individually. Great as well to track scores in spelling tests.
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Siobhan

Teacher of Science

Used Satchel One for 2.5 years

Jul 2020

I would like to see the recurring feature added for regular HW (see Q9). I also think that expanding the quiz feature where questions can be posed that ask pupils to type a short, one word answer would be helpful. The multiple choice option is great, but they only make up a small portion of an exam paper so pupils need to be able to recall names etc. and not always chose it from a set of options. It is difficult to create a platform whereby pupils can write extended answers (Google Forms works to an extent here) but answers for 'state the name of...' questions could be loaded by the teacher when creating the quiz. Teachers would still need to be able to overwrite the mark given to allow them to give marks for misspellings etc.

Siobhan found Satchel One:
  • Slightly improves attainment
    Pupils can be held accountable by parents so may complete more work (especially over this lockdown period).
  • Slightly reduces teacher workload
    A regular piece of HW set is a reminder to complete Tassomai questions. I log who has completed them in Satchel:One and award stamps for highest number etc. However, I have re re-use the same HW every week which is time consuming. Being able to re-use HW is helpful compared to always having to start from scratch however, if there were an option to tick the HW as recurring then I could choose multiple dates and set the HW for the term. I like being able to set HW in advance as it is sometimes easier to block this in when I have time, especially at the start of the term. The new options for flexible tasks etc. is a great addition also. I do not make enough use of the community feature.
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Tina

Teacher

Used Satchel One for 4 years

Jul 2020

It isn't perfect but the functions they have work really well, and there is lots in development too. The customer service is excellent, and they are very responsive to suggestions. The apps are easy to use and really enhance the system, for example it is super easy to tick off homework on the app if it is completed on a different website. Not 10 yet as the detentions module needs more development and the parent app should mirror what the teacher ticks off as completed not what the student ticks off.

Tina found Satchel One:
  • Slightly improves attainment
    Unsure, as we have only used it properly since lockdown. Prior to that we posted homework through it but didn't use it to monitor work. We haven't yet measured attainment since lockdown
  • Moderately reduces teacher workload
    Easy to post homework (reuse tasks), students submit via the app so no need to log when it comes in, no need for extra records of work, seating plan can replace printing of class lists or photos, easy to add behaviour through the seating plan. All of these save time
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Michelle Venn

Mathematics Teacher

Used Satchel One for 10 months

Jul 2020

Ease in which you set work, collate progress and monitor attainment.

Michelle Venn found Satchel One:
  • Slightly improves attainment
    Provides an overview of the students who are completing work for progress.
  • Significantly reduces teacher workload
    Quizzes are particularly good at showing progress and misconceptions.
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